[Commits] [svn:einsteintoolkit] www/about/releases/ (Rev. 1447)
knarf at cct.lsu.edu
knarf at cct.lsu.edu
Wed Nov 19 10:17:48 CST 2014
User: knarf
Date: 2014/11/19 10:17 AM
Modified:
/about/releases/
ET_2014_11_announcement.php
Log:
work on announcement
File Changes:
Directory: /about/releases/
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--- about/releases/ET_2014_11_announcement.php 2014-11-17 17:28:13 UTC (rev 1446)
+++ about/releases/ET_2014_11_announcement.php 2014-11-19 16:17:48 UTC (rev 1447)
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@
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<p>We are pleased to announce the tenth release (code name
-"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXX">XXX</a>") of the
+"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel">Herschel (Caroline)</a>") of the
Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure for
-relativistic astrophysics. This release includes XXX. In addition, bug fixes accumulated since the
-previous release in May 2014 have been included.</p>
+relativistic astrophysics. This release includes various improvements in the handling of
+external libraries (and with that, installations), and extensions of basis thorns (most notably
+HydroBase). In addition, bug fixes accumulated since the
+previous release in May 2014 have been included, and most of the source code repositories
+moved from svn (hosted by the ET directly) to git (hosted by BitBucket).</p>
<p>The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for
simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds
@@ -52,13 +55,13 @@
<ul>
<li>Repositories
<ul>
- <li>Many repositories converted from Subversion to Git</li>
+ <li>Many repositories converted from Subversion to Git, including some reorganization of thorns within arrangements.</li>
</ul>
</li>
- <li>Removed components
+ <li>Deprecated components (still present)
<ul>
- <li>ADMConstraints (use ML_ADMConstraints instead)</li>
- <li>Boost</li>
+ <li>ADMCoupling</li>
+ <li>ADMMacros</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>New components:
@@ -66,30 +69,38 @@
<li>CUDA and OpenCL examples</li>
<li>PAPI</li>
<li>OpenBLAS</li>
+ <li>MemSpeed<li>
+ <li>NaNCatcher</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Moved components:
<ul>
+ <li>Almost all thorns except ExternalLibraries moved to Bitbucket</li>
<li>GRHydro and GRHydro_InitData into EinsteinEvolve</li>
- <li>All Carpet thorns moved to Carpet arrangement</li>
+ <li>All Carpet thorns moved to Carpet arrangement (now on BitBucket)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Simfactory
<ul>
- <li>updates to many machines</li>
+ <li>Source repository moved to BitBucket
+ <li>Updates to many machines</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>HDF5
<ul>
- <li>enable fortran interface by default, disable C++ interface by
-default. (TODO: check this is right)</li>
+ <li>Enable fortran interface by default, disable C++ interface by
+default.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>MPI
<ul>
<li>Rewrite MPI thorn configuration script to attempt to determine
- paths automatically using mpicxx. (TODO: add more details about what
- people might need to change in their optionlists)</li>
+ paths automatically using mpicxx.<br>
+ Automatic detection should succeed on most machines (no MPI variable set
+ in option list); if not, setting
+ MPI_DIR to the installation directory of the desired MPI installation
+ should in most cases suffice.
+ </li>
</ul>
</li>
@@ -98,8 +109,8 @@
<li>Plan to change output filename format from implementation::groupname
to implementation__groupname. Introduced new parameter
IOUtil::out_group_separator which currently defaults to '::' to
- maintain compatibility. The next release will change this to '-' for
- compatibility with Windows filesystems, to which current Cactus simulations cannot even be copied.</li>
+ maintain compatibility. The next release will change this to '__' for
+ compatibility with Windows filesystems.</li>
</ul>
</li>
@@ -112,7 +123,7 @@
<ul><li><b>How to upgrade from Wheeler (ET_2014_05)</b></li></ul>
-<p>To upgrade from the previous release, use GetComponents with the new thornlist to check out the new version.</p>
+<p>To upgrade from the previous release, use GetComponents with the new thornlist to check out the new version. Switching to the new branch is not possible for most repositories due to the repository move.</p>
<p>See the <a href="http://einsteintoolkit.org/download/">Download</a> page on the Einstein Toolkit website for download instructions.</p>
@@ -128,47 +139,45 @@
<p>Supported (tested) machines include:</p>
<ul>
- <!-- <li> Default Debian, Suse and Fedora installations</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Bethe</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Bluewaters *</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Carver</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Datura</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Gordon</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Hopper</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Loewe</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Lonestar *</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Supermike II</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Nvidia *</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Orca *</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Philip</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Queenbee</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Shelob</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Stampede (CPU)</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Supermuc</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Titan</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Trestles</li> -->
- <!-- <li> Zwicky</li> -->
+ <li> Default Debian, Suse, Fedora and MacOS installations</li>
+ <li> Bethe</li>
+ <li> Bluewaters *</li>
+ <li> Carver</li>
+ <li> Datura</li>
+ <li> Gordon</li>
+ <li> Hopper</li>
+ <li> Hydra</li>
+ <li> Loewe</li>
+ <li> Supermike II *</li>
+ <li> Nvidia *</li>
+ <li> Orca *</li>
+ <li> Philip</li>
+ <li> Queenbee 2</li>
+ <li> Shelob</li>
+ <li> Stampede (CPU) *</li>
+ <li> Trestles</li>
+ <li> Zwicky</li>
</ul>
-<p>A * means that a small number of tests still fail on that machine. All tests pass on the other machines.</p>
+<p>A * means that a small number of tests fail on that machine. Almost all tests pass on the other machines.</p>
<ul>
- <li> LoneStar and Stampede: defs.local.ini needs to have sourcebasedir = $WORK and basedir = $SCRATCH/simulations configured for this machine. You need to determine $WORK and $SCRATCH by logging in to the machine.</li>
+ <li> Stampede: defs.local.ini needs to have sourcebasedir = $WORK and basedir = $SCRATCH/simulations configured for this machine. You need to determine $WORK and $SCRATCH by logging in to the machine.</li>
</ul>
<p>All repositories participating in this release carry a branch ET_2014_11
marking this release. These release branches will be updated if severe
errors are found.</p>
-<p>The "XXX" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2014-11-XX)</p>
+<p>The "Herschel" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2014-11-19)</p>
<p>
-<!-- Peter Diener<br /> -->
-<!-- Roland Haas<br /> -->
-<!-- Ian Hinder<br /> -->
-<!-- Frank Löffler<br /> -->
-<!-- Bruno C. Mundim<br /> -->
-<!-- Erik Schnetter<br /> -->
+ Peter Diener<br />
+ Roland Haas<br />
+ Ian Hinder<br />
+ Frank Löffler<br />
+ Bruno C. Mundim<br />
+ Erik Schnetter<br />
</p>
-<p>Nov XX, 2014</p>
+<p>Nov 19, 2014</p>
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