To: picongpu-users@hzdr.de
From: "Huebl, Axel" <a.huebl@hzdr.de>
Subject: PIConGPU 0.2.0: Beta Release - Full Multiple Species Support &
 openPMD
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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:00:31 +0100
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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, RenÃ© 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
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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.

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