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| − | == Ørsted (ET_2012_11) == | + | == Unnamed (ET_2016_11) == |
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| − | We are pleased to announce the sixth release (code name "Ørsted") of the Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics. This release includes various improvements to the MHD handling within GRHydro, and improvements to the Cactus flesh. In addition, bug fixes accumulated since the previous release in May 2012 have been included.
| + | '''NOTE: This release text is work in progress, meant for an upcoming release of the Einstein Toolkit, ''not'' of an already released version.''' |
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community including
| + | We are pleased to announce the fourteenth release (code name "Unnamed") of the Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics. This release includes, among other things, TODO. In addition, bug fixes accumulated since the previous release in May 2016 have been included. |
| − | CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure and the relativistic hydrodynamics code GRHydro (an updated and extended version of the public release of the Whisky code). 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 hydrodynamics.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its different modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by the core team of Einstein Toolkit Maintainers, or by individual groups. Where modules are provided by external groups, the Einstein Toolkit Maintainers provide quality control for modules for inclusion in the toolkit and help coordinate support. The Einstein Toolkit Maintainers currently involve postdocs and faculty from six different institutions, and host weekly meetings that are open for anyone to join in. | + | The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community. This includes CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure and the relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics codes GRHydro and IllinoisGRMHD. 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. |
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| − | Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit include: open, community-driven software development; well thought out and stable interfaces; separation of physics software from computational science infrastructure; provision of complete working production code; training and education for a new generation of researchers.
| + | The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its different modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by the core team of Einstein Toolkit Maintainers, or by individual groups. Where modules are provided by external groups, the Einstein Toolkit Maintainers provide quality control for modules for inclusion in the toolkit and help coordinate support. The Einstein Toolkit Maintainers currently involve postdocs, staff and faculty from six different institutions, and host weekly meetings that are open for anyone to join in. |
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| − | For more information about using or contributing to the Einstein Toolkit, or to join the Einstein Toolkit Consortium, please visit our web pages at <http://einsteintoolkit.org>.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by NSF 1212401/1212426/1212433/1212460, 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
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| − | The "Ørsted" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2012-11-08)
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| − | == Lovelace (ET_2012_05) ==
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| − | We are pleased to announce the fifth release (code name "Lovelace") of the Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics. This release includes beginning support for OpenCL (disabled by default). In addition, bug fixes accumulated since the previous release in October 2011 have been included.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community including
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| − | CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure and the relativistic hydrodynamics code GRHydro (an updated and extended version of the public release of the Whisky code). 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 hydrodynamics.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its different modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by the core team of Einstein Toolkit Maintainers, or by individual groups. Where modules are provided by external groups, the Einstein Toolkit Maintainers provide quality control for modules for inclusion in the toolkit and help coordinate support. The Einstein Toolkit Maintainers currently involve postdocs and faculty from five different institutions, and host weekly meetings that are open for anyone to join in. | |
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| | Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit include: open, community-driven software development; well thought out and stable interfaces; separation of physics software from computational science infrastructure; provision of complete working production code; training and education for a new generation of researchers. | | Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit include: open, community-driven software development; well thought out and stable interfaces; separation of physics software from computational science infrastructure; provision of complete working production code; training and education for a new generation of researchers. |
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| | For more information about using or contributing to the Einstein Toolkit, or to join the Einstein Toolkit Consortium, please visit our web pages at <http://einsteintoolkit.org>. | | For more information about using or contributing to the Einstein Toolkit, or to join the Einstein Toolkit Consortium, please visit our web pages at <http://einsteintoolkit.org>. |
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by NSF 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892 (XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid). | + | The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by NSF 1212401/1212426/1212433/1212460 (Einstein Toolkit), and also by 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid). |
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| − | The "Lovelace" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2012-05-28)
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| − | == Maxwell (ET_2011_10) ==
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| − | We are pleased to announce the fourth release (code name "Maxwell") of the Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics. This release includes substantial changes to the underlying AMR infrastructure Carpet and the simfactory tool. GRHydro is now officially released with support for magnetohydrodynamics. In addition, bug fixes accumulated since the previous release in April 2011 have been included.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community including
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its different modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by the core team of Einstein Toolkit Maintainers, or by individual groups. Where modules are provided by external groups, the Einstein Toolkit Maintainers provide quality control for modules for inclusion in the toolkit and help coordinate support. The Einstein Toolkit Maintainers currently involve postdocs and faculty from five different institutions, and host weekly meetings that are open for anyone to join in.
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| − | Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit include: open, community-driven software development; well thought out and stable interfaces; separation of physics software from computational science infrastructure; provision of complete working production code; training and education for a new generation of researchers.
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| − | For more information about using or contributing to the Einstein Toolkit, or to join the Einstein Toolkit Consortium, please visit our web pages at <http://einsteintoolkit.org>.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by NSF 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892 (XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
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| − | The "Maxwell" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2011-10-24)
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| − | == Curie (ET_2011_05) ==
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| − | We are pleased to announce the third release (code name "Curie") of the Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics. This release changed the equation of state interface from two competing (EOS_Base and EOSG_Base, also known as the old and the general EOS interface), to a completely new interface called EOS_Omni, also adding support for tabulated, microphysical EOSs in the process. In addition, bug fixes accumulated since the previous release in November 2010 have been included, and the testsuites have been checked also using OpenMP.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community including
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| − | CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure and the relativistic hydrodynamics code GRHydro (an updated and extended version of the public release of the Whisky code). 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 hydrodynamics. Current development in the consortium is targeted at providing additional infrastructure for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its different modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by the core team of Einstein Toolkit Maintainers, or by individual groups. Where modules are provided by external groups, the Einstein Toolkit Maintainers provide quality control for modules for inclusion in the toolkit and help coordinate support. The Einstein Toolkit Maintainers currently involve postdocs and faculty from five different institutions, and host weekly meetings that are open for anyone to join in.
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| − | Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit include: open, community-driven software development; well thought out and stable interfaces; separation of physics software from computational science infrastructure; provision of complete working production code; training and education for a new generation of researchers.
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| − | For more information about using or contributing to the Einstein Toolkit, or to join the Einstein Toolkit Consortium, please visit our web pages at <http://einsteintoolkit.org>.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by NSF 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892 (XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
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| − | The "Curie" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2011-04-21)
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| − | == Chandrasekhar (ET_2010_11) ==
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| − | We are pleased to announce the second release (code name "Chandrasekhar") of the Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics. This release is mainly a maintenance release incorporating fixes accumulated since the previous release in June 2010, as well as additional test suites.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community including
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| − | CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure and on the public version of the Whisky hydrodynamics code (now modified and called 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
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its different modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by the core team of Einstein Toolkit Maintainers, or by individual groups. Where modules are provided by external groups, the Einstein Toolkit Maintainers provide quality control for modules for inclusion in the toolkit and help coordinate support. The Einstein Toolkit Maintainers currently involve postdocs and faculty from five different institutions, and host weekly meetings that are open for anyone to join in.
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| − | Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit include: open, community-driven software development; well thought out and stable interfaces; separation of physics software from computational science infrastructure; provision of complete working production code; training and education for a new generation of researchers.
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| − | For more information about using or contributing to the Einstein Toolkit, or to join the Einstein Toolkit Consortium, please visit our web pages at <http://einsteintoolkit.org>.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by NSF 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892 (XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
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| − | The "Chandrasekhar" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2010-11-23)
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| − | == Bohr (ET_2010_06) ==
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| − | We are pleased to announce the first release (code name "Bohr") of the
| + | The Einstein Toolkit contains about 200 regression test cases. On a large portion of the tested machines, almost all of these test suites pass, using both MPI and OpenMP parallelization. |
| − | Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure | + | The changes between this and the previous release include: |
| − | for relativistic astrophysics. The Einstein Toolkit is a collection
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| − | general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous
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| − | infrastructure. The Cactus Framework is used as the underlying
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| − | computational infrastructure providing large-scale parallelization,
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| − | general computational components, and a model for collaborative,
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| − | portable code development. The toolkit includes modules to build
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| − | complete codes for simulating black hole spacetimes as well as systems
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| − | governed by relativistic hydrodynamics. Current development in the
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| − | consortium is targeted at providing additional infrastructure for
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| − | general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics.
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| − | The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its
| + | Larger changes since last release |
| − | different modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by
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| − | the core team of Einstein Toolkit Maintainers, or by individual
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| − | groups. Where modules are provided by external groups, the Einstein
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| − | Toolkit Maintainers provide quality control for modules for inclusion
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| − | in the toolkit and help coordinate support. The Einstein Toolkit
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| − | Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit
| + | How to upgrade from Brahe (ET_2016_05) |
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| − | 1: Open, community-driven software development that encourages the
| + | To upgrade from the previous release, use GetComponents with the new component list to check out the new version. |
| − | sharing of code across the community, prevents code duplication, and
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| − | 2: Well thought out and stable interfaces between components that
| + | See the Download page on the Einstein Toolkit website for download instructions. |
| − | enable multiple implementations of physics capabilities, and allow
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| − | 3: Separation of physics software from computational science
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| − | 4: The provision of complete working production codes to provide:
| + | Certain machines need to be configured specially in Simfactory because the remote directories cannot be determined automatically just from the user name. See the Machine notes below. |
| − | prototypes, standard benchmarks, and testcases; codes that are
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| − | For more information about using or contributing to the Einstein
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| − | We thank the numerous people who contributed to this software over the
| + | == Older Releases == |
| − | past many years; there are too many to be listed here. We also
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| − | this release happen. The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by
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| − | NSF 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892
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| − | The "Bohr" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium | + | The final release information of older releases can be found [[http://einsteintoolkit.org/about/releases/ here]]. |
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Unnamed (ET_2016_11)
NOTE: This release text is work in progress, meant for an upcoming release of the Einstein Toolkit, not of an already released version.
We are pleased to announce the fourteenth release (code name "Unnamed") of the Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics. This release includes, among other things, TODO. In addition, bug fixes accumulated since the previous release in May 2016 have been included.
The Einstein Toolkit is a collection of software components and tools for simulating and analyzing general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous software efforts in the numerical relativity community. This includes CactusEinstein, the Carpet AMR infrastructure and the relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics codes GRHydro and IllinoisGRMHD. 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.
The Einstein Toolkit uses a distributed software model and its different modules are developed, distributed, and supported either by the core team of Einstein Toolkit Maintainers, or by individual groups. Where modules are provided by external groups, the Einstein Toolkit Maintainers provide quality control for modules for inclusion in the toolkit and help coordinate support. The Einstein Toolkit Maintainers currently involve postdocs, staff and faculty from six different institutions, and host weekly meetings that are open for anyone to join in.
Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit include: open, community-driven software development; well thought out and stable interfaces; separation of physics software from computational science infrastructure; provision of complete working production code; training and education for a new generation of researchers.
For more information about using or contributing to the Einstein Toolkit, or to join the Einstein Toolkit Consortium, please visit our web pages at <http://einsteintoolkit.org>.
The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by NSF 1212401/1212426/1212433/1212460 (Einstein Toolkit), and also by 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
The Einstein Toolkit contains about 200 regression test cases. On a large portion of the tested machines, almost all of these test suites pass, using both MPI and OpenMP parallelization.
The changes between this and the previous release include:
Larger changes since last release
How to upgrade from Brahe (ET_2016_05)
To upgrade from the previous release, use GetComponents with the new component list to check out the new version.
See the Download page on the Einstein Toolkit website for download instructions.
Remaining issues with this release
Certain machines need to be configured specially in Simfactory because the remote directories cannot be determined automatically just from the user name. See the Machine notes below.
Older Releases
The final release information of older releases can be found [here].
