QCDUtils

This manual describes a set of utilities developed for Lattice QCD computations. They are collectively called QCDUtils. They comprise a set of Python programs each of them with a specific function: download gauge ensembles from the public NERSC repository, convert between formats, split files by time-slices, compile and run physics algorithms, generate visualizations in the form of VTK files, convert the visualizations into images, perform bootstrap analysis of results, fit the results of the analysis, and plot those results. These tools implement the typical workflow of most Lattice QCD computations and automate it by enforcing filename conventions: the output of one tool is read by the next tool in the workflow. This manual is organized as a series of autonomous recipes which can be combined together.