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 Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject: [ANN] xmds version 1.6.4 released |
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The xmds team is pleased to announce the release of xmds-1.6.4.
xmds is the eXtensible Multi-Dimensional Simulator and is a code
generator that
integrates equations. You write them down in human readable form in a
XML file,
and it goes away and writes and compiles a C++ program that integrates
those
equations as fast as it can possibly be done in your architecture.
Simulations
created with xmds are able to be automatically parallelised and use
MPI or
OpenMP to run your simulations in a parallel computing environment.
xmds also
features the ability to output its simulation data in various
visualisation
packages: Matlab, Octave, Mathematica and Gnuplot.
New features / changes since last release:
This release includes several bug fixes, and the ability to assign
components as arrays. The updated documentation explains the new
syntax. Read
the end of the 'More Examples' chapter, where the new feature is
demonstrated
by the differences between highdim.xmds and
highdim_vector_version.xmds in the
examples directory. WARNING: Use EX algorithms when using this
feature unless
you understand exactly what you>re doing. The configuration
mechanism has also
seen a tidy up, and there has been the addition of rudimentary
support for
visualisation using the R package.
Many thanks to those who made this release possible!
Where to get xmds:
* Debian-based distributions: apt-get install xmds
* FreeBSD: portupgrade -N xmds
* Source tarball: http://www.xmds.org and/or http://xmds.sourceforge.net
Questions / comments / problems:
* mailing list: xmds-user@lists.sourceforge.net
* wiki: http://xmds.wiki.sourceforge.net/
Would you like to help out? Great! Anything you can do to help out
would be
fantastic! E.g.:
* submit your xmds scripts to share with others and show what
problems can be
solve with xmds
* run xmds on a system we don>t have access to (e.g. Minix, Solaris,
mingw32,
HP/UX)
* tell us if you were able to build xmds or not; the people on the
xmds-users
mailing list are only too happy to help
* ask about how to solve your problems in physics, chemistry,
economics or
whatever with xmds
* package releases of xmds; it helps many people if they can just use
their
standard package manager to download the software, so if you have
experience
with packing software on your platform, please, submit such a
package. If you
find problems when packaging, then just ask! |
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