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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.
 
 
 
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
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892 (XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
 
 
 
The "Lovelace" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2012-05-28)
 
 
 
== Maxwell (ET_2011_10) ==
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892 (XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
 
 
 
The "Maxwell" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2011-10-24)
 
 
 
== Curie (ET_2011_05) ==
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892 (XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
 
 
 
The "Curie" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2011-04-21)
 
 
 
== Chandrasekhar (ET_2010_11) ==
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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
 
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
 
governed by relativistic hydrodynamics.  Current development in the consortium is targeted at providing additional infrastructure for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892 (XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus) and 0710874 (LONI Grid).
 
 
 
The "Chandrasekhar" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium (2010-11-23)
 
 
 
== Bohr (ET_2010_06) ==
 
 
 
We are pleased to announce the first release (code name "Bohr") of the
 
Einstein Toolkit, an open, community developed software infrastructure
 
for relativistic astrophysics.  The Einstein Toolkit is a collection
 
of over 130 software components and tools for simulating and analyzing
 
general relativistic astrophysical systems that builds on numerous
 
software efforts in the numerical relativity community including
 
CactusEinstein, the Whisky hydrodynamics code, and the Carpet AMR
 
infrastructure.  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.
 
 
 
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 hold weekly meetings that are open for anyone to
 
join in.
 
 
 
Guiding principles for the design and implementation of the toolkit
 
include:
 
 
 
1: Open, community-driven software development that encourages the
 
sharing of code across the community, prevents code duplication, and
 
leads to sustainable support and development of essential code.
 
 
 
2: Well thought out and stable interfaces between components that
 
enable multiple implementations of physics capabilities, and allow
 
groups or individuals to concentrate on their areas of interest.
 
 
 
3: Separation of physics software from computational science
 
infrastructure so that new technologies for large scale computing,
 
processor accelerators, or parallel I/O can be easily integrated with
 
science codes.
 
 
 
4: The provision of complete working production codes to provide:
 
prototypes, standard benchmarks, and testcases; codes that are
 
available for and usable by the general astrophysics community; tools
 
for new researchers and groups to enter this field; 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>.
 
 
 
We thank the numerous people who contributed to this software over the
 
past many years; there are too many to be listed here.  We also
 
gratefully acknowledge those who helped in the past months to make
 
this release happen.  The Einstein Toolkit is primarily supported by
 
NSF 0903973/0903782/0904015 (CIGR), and also by NSF 0701566/0855892
 
(XiRel), 0721915 (Alpaca), and 0905046/0941653 (PetaCactus).
 
 
 
The "Bohr" Release Team on behalf of the Einstein Toolkit Consortium
 
(2010-06-17)
 

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