[Commits] [svn:einsteintoolkit] www/about/releases/ (Rev. 1577)
knarf at cct.lsu.edu
knarf at cct.lsu.edu
Wed Jun 15 04:26:07 CDT 2016
User: knarf
Date: 2016/06/15 04:26 AM
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/about/releases/
ET_2016_05_announcement.php
Log:
a more complete announcement
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Directory: /about/releases/
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--- about/releases/ET_2016_05_announcement.php 2016-06-14 20:24:09 UTC (rev 1576)
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@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@
simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds
on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community including
CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure and the relativistic
-magneto-hydrodynamics code GRHydro. The Cactus Framework is used as the underlying
-computational infrastructure providing large-scale parallelization, general
-computational components, and a model for collaborative, portable code
-development. The toolkit includes modules to build complete codes for
-simulating black hole spacetimes as well as systems governed by relativistic
-magneto-hydrodynamics.</p>
+magneto-hydrodynamics code GRHydro. For parts of the toolkit, the Cactus
+Framework is used as the underlying computational infrastructure providing
+large-scale parallelization, general computational components, and a model for
+collaborative, portable code development. The toolkit includes modules to build
+complete codes for simulating black hole spacetimes as well as systems governed
+by relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics.</p>
<p>The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its different
modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by the core team of
@@ -63,34 +63,28 @@
<li>
Cactus Flesh
<ul>
- <li>While not a particular user-visible change, the Cactus version number was
- bumped to 4.3.0, as a new version of Cactus was released at the same time
- as this Einstein Toolkit release.
- <li>Thorns can specify versions for capabilities they provide, and thorns
- using them can depend on specific versions of those.
- <li>pthread support got moved into a thorn (ExternalLibraries/pthreads)
- </ul>
+ <li>Enable C++11 by default, and require it to be supported</li>
+ <li>Support bibtex in LaTeX thorn documentation</li>
+ <li>External libraries can specify additional paths (only) added as include
+ path for Fortran.</li>
+ <li>The 'checkout' target of 'make' has been removed, as it only supported
+ cvs, was unused and untested for a long time.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>IllinoisGRMHD/Convert_to_HydroBase: major update</li>
+ <li>SetMask_SphericalSurface: modify criterion for setting the mask to avoid problems with intermittant apparent horizon finder failures
+ <li>More examples in the Einstein Toolkit Gallery http://einsteintoolkit.org/about/gallery/</li>
<li>
- McLachlan
+ Simfactory
<ul>
- <li>re-write of the BSSN thorns: some parameter names changed. Backwards
- compatible parameter names exist, but the old are deprecated now. Please
- switch to the new, more consistent, parameter names.
- </ul>
-
+ <li>New configurations: acrcluster, centos, cori, minerva, sunnyvale</li>
+ <li>Updates to several machines (too many to list)</li>
+ </ul>stampede: fix core affinity settings
+ </li>
<li>
New thorns or tools
<ul>
- <li>IllinoisGRMHD (and connected thorns): a new GRMHD code within the Einstein
- Toolkit. This isn't a drop-in replacement for GRHydro (as a lot of the
- functionality, and parameters are different), but should be seen as
- alternative. They are placed in the WVUThorns arrangement.
- <li>CTThorns: Elliptic solver for Cactus/Carpet. This is a multi-grid solver,
- and so far has mostly been used for cosmology-type simulations.
- <li>AH2xdmf.py script (new utility within the AHFinderDirect thorn):
- reads ASCII AHFinderDirect output files and combines data into hdf5 file
- that can easily be visualized as time-series within tools like VisIt
- <li>PITTNullCode/SphericalHarmonicReconGen: generic version of SphericalHarmonicRecon
+ <li>New thorn WatchDog: a thorn that terminates jobs that do not make progress
+ over a user-defined time frame, defined as time in between ANALYSIS steps.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
@@ -112,28 +106,24 @@
<p>Supported (tested) machines include:</p>
<ul>
- <li> Default Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and MacOS installations</li>
+ <li> Default Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, and MacOS installations</li>
<li> Bethe</li>
- <li> Bluewaters *</li>
- <li> Carver</li>
+ <li> Bluewaters</li>
<li> Comet</li>
<li> Datura</li>
- <li> Edison</li>
- <li> Fermi</li>
<li> Fionn</li>
- <li> Galileo</li>
<li> Gordon</li>
+ <li> GPC</li>
<li> Gullimin</li>
- <li> Hopper</li>
+ <li> MP2</li>
<li> Nvidia</li>
- <li> Philip</li>
<li> Queenbee 2</li>
<li> Shelob</li>
<li> Supermike II</li>
- <li> Stampede (CPU) *</li>
+ <li> Stampede (CPU)</li>
+ <li> Titan</li>
<li> Zwicky</li>
</ul>
-<p>A * means that a small number of tests fail on that machine. Almost all tests pass on the other machines.</p>
<ul>
<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>
@@ -142,7 +132,7 @@
marking this release. These release branches will be updated if severe
errors are found.</p>
-<p>The "Somerville" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2016-06-15)</p>
+<p>The "Brahe" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2016-06-15)</p>
<p>
Steven R. Brandt<br />
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