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File [modified]: ET_2016_05_announcement.php Delta lines: +30 -40 =================================================================== --- about/releases/ET_2016_05_announcement.php 2016-06-14 20:24:09 UTC (rev 1576) +++ about/releases/ET_2016_05_announcement.php 2016-06-15 09:26:07 UTC (rev 1577) @@ -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> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Steven R. Brandt<br />