Return-Path: <a.huebl@hzdr.de> Received: from [141.76.99.213] (account huebl@hzdr.de HELO [10.100.61.92]) by hzdr.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.1.12) with ESMTPSA id 15039136 for picongpu-users@hzdr.de; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:00:32 +0100 To: picongpu-users@hzdr.de From: "Huebl, Axel" <a.huebl@hzdr.de> Subject: PIConGPU 0.2.0: Beta Release - Full Multiple Species Support & openPMD X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <549d68b2-25ed-854f-f685-b718dedbdf3e@hzdr.de> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:00:31 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear PIConGPU-Users, I am honored to present you on behalf of all PIConGPU developers the "beta" release of PIConGPU, version 0.2.0. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.168390 This release of PIConGPU, implements full multi-species support for an arbitrary number of particle species and refactors our main I/O to be formatted as openPMD (see http://openPMD.org). Several major features have been implemented and stabilized, highlights include refactored ADIOS support (including checkpoints), a classical radiation reaction pusher (based on the work of M. Vranic/IST), parallel particle-IDs, generalized on-the-fly particle creation, advanced field ionization schemes and unification of plugin and file names. This is our last C++98 compatible release (for CUDA 5.5-7.0). Upcoming releases will be C++11 only (CUDA 7.5+), which is already supported in this release, too. Please refer to CHANGELOG.md [1] for a full list of features, fixes and user interface changes. Thank you to Axel Huebl, René Widera, Alexander Grund, Richard Pausch, Heiko Burau, Alexander Debus, Marco Garten, Benjamin Worpitz, Erik Zenker, Frank Winkler, Carlchristian Eckert, Stefan Tietze, Benjamin Schneider, Maximilian Knespel and Michael Bussmann for contributions to this release! Starting with this release we will also sign our git release tags [2]. This release is tagged with "0.2.0" with an additional tag "beta" used as an alias pointing to the same version of the code [3]. You can now check out these tags or our mainline branch "master" (via git) and start using it today! Best regards, Axel Huebl [1] https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/blob/0.2.0/CHANGELOG.md#020-beta [2] https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/releases [3] https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/tags -- Axel Huebl Phone +49 351 260 3582 https://www.hzdr.de/crp Computational Radiation Physics Laser Particle Acceleration Division Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf e.V. Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328 Dresden POB 510119, D-01314 Dresden Vorstand: Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. R. Sauerbrey Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. P. Joehnk VR 1693 beim Amtsgericht Dresden