From: "Axel Huebl a.huebl@hzdr.de" <picongpu-users@hzdr.de>
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Subject: PIConGPU 0.4.0-rc2: CPU Support, Particle Filter, Probes & Merging
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Dear PIConGPU-Users,

Feel free to test our second release candidate for the 0.4.0 release,
version 0.4.0-rc2!

*Changes to 0.4.0-rc1*

- fix laser init on cpu #2689
- fix out of host memory during HDF5 dumping #2690
- update manual #2685

Thanks to all who already tested our first 0.4.0 release candidate! We
updated the `release-0.4.0` branch with the above changes and tagged
0.4.0-rc2 .


Best regards,
Axel Huebl

On 8/11/18 1:07 AM, Axel Huebl a.huebl@hzdr.de wrote:
> 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
> 

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Axel Huebl
Phone: +49 351 260 3582
Institute of Radiation Physics
http://www.hzdr.de/crp
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Roland Sauerbrey, Dr. Ulrich Breuer
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