From: "Axel Huebl a.huebl@hzdr.de" Received: from [80.188.89.22] (account huebl@hzdr.de HELO [10.17.36.181]) by hzdr.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.6) with ESMTPSA id 20598325; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 09:07:31 +0200 Subject: PIConGPU 0.4.0-rc1: CPU Support, Particle Filter, Probes & Merging To: picongpu-users@hzdr.de Organization: HZDR Message-ID: <96ab06fb-e3cf-3c25-03fd-08ba7dcbd169@hzdr.de> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 09:07:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear PIConGPU-Users, We invite you to test our upcoming release, PIConGPU 0.4.0 with its first release candiate! Before releasing a new version of PIConGPU in the branch "master", we open so called "release branches" which are feature-frozen versions from our mainline "dev" branch that only receive bugfixes. After finishing all the documentation and adding four large rounds of fixes within the last month we are confident you can now test it yourself! This release adds CPU support, making PIConGPU a many-core, single-source, performance portable PIC code for all kinds of supercomputers. We added particle filters to initialization routines and plugins, allowing fine-grained in situ control of physical observables. All particle plugins now support those filters and can be called multiple times with different settings. Particle probes and more particle initialization manipulators have been added. A particle merging plugin has been added. The Thomas-Fermi model has been improved, allowing to set empirical cut-offs. PIConGPU input and output (plugins) received initial Python bindings for efficient control and analysis. User input files have been dramatically simplified. For example, creating the PIConGPU binary from input files for GPU or CPU is now as easy as `pic-build -b cuda` or `pic-build -b omp2b` respectively. Thanks to Axel Huebl, René Widera, Sebastian Starke, Marco Garten, Richard Pausch, Alexander Matthes, Sergei Bastrakov, Heiko Burau, Alexander Debus, Ilja Göthel, Sophie Rudat, Jeffrey Kelling, Klaus Steiniger, and Sebastian Hahn for contributing to this release! Please refer to our ChangeLog [1] for a full list of features, fixes and user interface changes before getting started. You can now check out the `release-0.4.0` branch [2] on our mainline (via git) and start testing it today! Please report any issues that you might encounter either on this list or (preferably) on GitHub. Best regards, Axel Huebl [1] https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/blob/release-0.4.0/CHANGELOG.md#040 [2] https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/picongpu/tree/release-0.4.0 -- 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 ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to