Commands Reference

rustpix process

Process TPX3 files to extract neutron events.

rustpix process [OPTIONS] -o <OUTPUT> <INPUT>...

Arguments

Argument	Description
`<INPUT>...`	Input TPX3 file(s)

Options

Option	Default	Description
`-o, --output <PATH>`	Required	Output file path
`-a, --algorithm <ALGO>`	`abs`	Clustering algorithm (`abs`, `dbscan`, `grid`)
`--radius <FLOAT>`	`5.0`	Spatial radius for clustering (pixels)
`--temporal-window-ns <FLOAT>`	`75.0`	Temporal window for clustering (nanoseconds)
`--min-cluster-size <INT>`	`1`	Minimum cluster size
`--out-of-core <BOOL>`	`true`	Enable out-of-core processing
`--memory-fraction <FLOAT>`	`0.5`	Fraction of available memory to use
`--memory-budget-bytes <INT>`	Auto	Explicit memory budget in bytes
`--parallelism <INT>`	Auto	Worker threads for processing
`--queue-depth <INT>`	`2`	Pipeline queue depth
`--async-io <BOOL>`	`false`	Enable async I/O pipeline
`-v, --verbose`	Off	Verbose output

Examples

# Basic processing
rustpix process input.tpx3 -o output.csv

# Process multiple files
rustpix process file1.tpx3 file2.tpx3 -o combined.csv

# Use DBSCAN with custom parameters
rustpix process input.tpx3 -o output.csv \
    --algorithm dbscan \
    --radius 3.0 \
    --temporal-window-ns 50.0

# Verbose output with parallel processing
rustpix process input.tpx3 -o output.bin \
    --verbose \
    --parallelism 8 \
    --async-io true

# Memory-constrained processing
rustpix process huge_file.tpx3 -o output.csv \
    --memory-fraction 0.3 \
    --out-of-core true

rustpix info

Display information about a TPX3 file.

rustpix info <INPUT>

Example

$ rustpix info data.tpx3
File: data.tpx3
Size: 104857600 bytes (104.86 MB)
Packets: 6553600
Hits: 5242880
TOF range: 0 - 16666666
X range: 0 - 511
Y range: 0 - 511

rustpix benchmark

Benchmark clustering algorithms on a TPX3 file.

rustpix benchmark [OPTIONS] <INPUT>

Options

Option	Default	Description
`-i, --iterations <INT>`	`3`	Number of benchmark iterations

Example

$ rustpix benchmark data.tpx3 --iterations 5
Benchmarking with 5242880 hits, 5 iterations
Algorithm  | Mean Time (ms)  | Min Time (ms)   | Max Time (ms)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
ABS        | 245.32          | 238.45          | 256.78
DBSCAN     | 1234.56         | 1198.23         | 1287.34
Grid       | 312.45          | 298.12          | 334.56

rustpix out-of-core-benchmark

Benchmark out-of-core processing modes.

rustpix out-of-core-benchmark [OPTIONS] <INPUT>

Options

Option	Default	Description
`-a, --algorithm <ALGO>`	`abs`	Clustering algorithm
`--radius <FLOAT>`	`5.0`	Spatial radius (pixels)
`--temporal-window-ns <FLOAT>`	`75.0`	Temporal window (ns)
`--min-cluster-size <INT>`	`1`	Minimum cluster size
`-i, --iterations <INT>`	`3`	Number of iterations
`--memory-fraction <FLOAT>`	`0.5`	Memory fraction
`--parallelism <INT>`	Auto	Worker threads
`--queue-depth <INT>`	`2`	Queue depth
`--async-io <BOOL>`	`false`	Enable async I/O

Example

$ rustpix out-of-core-benchmark data.tpx3 --parallelism 4 --async-io true
Out-of-core benchmark (3 iterations)
Single-thread avg: 12.345s
Multi-thread avg: 4.567s (threads: 4, async: true)
Speedup: 2.70x

Environment Variables

The CLI respects standard environment variables:

Variable	Description
`RAYON_NUM_THREADS`	Override default thread count for parallel processing

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