[Yt-dev] [Enzo-users-l] yt Version 1.6 Release Announcement

[Michael Norman]

Great stuff guys!    Mike

On 1/22/10, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> We're proud to announce the release of yt version 1.6, a point release
> of the analysis and visualization toolkit for Adaptive Mesh Refinement
> data. This release contains many small improvements to the codebase,
> as well as several large improvements. Most prominently, it features a
> completely redesigned, massively parallel implementation of the halo
> finding algorithm HOP, as well as attendant improvements to particle
> data IO and parallel communication. Additionally, the underlying data
> structures for hierarchical datasets have been rewritten for speed and
> clarity, enabling the future addition of new multi-resolution data
> formats to be easily added.
>
> yt features native support for Enzo
> (http://lca.ucsd.edu/projects/enzo) data, providing a natural and
> intuitive way to address physical regions in space as well as
> processed data.
>
> Some of the changes since yt-1.5 (released on November 3, 2009) include:
>
>  * (New) Parallel HOP ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3411 )
>  * (Beta!) Software ray casting and volume rendering (Sam Skillman has
> a gallery here:
> http://casa.colorado.edu/~skillman/simulation_gallery/simulation_gallery.html
> )
>  * Rewritten, faster and better contouring engine for clump identification
>  * Spectral Energy Distribution calculation for stellar populations
>  * Optimized data structures such as the hierarchy
>  * Star particle analysis routines
>  * Halo mass function routines
>  * Completely rewritten, massively faster and more memory efficient Particle
> IO
>  * Fixes for plots, including normalized phase plots
>  * Better collective communication in parallel routines
>  * Consolidation of optimized C routines into amr_utils
>  * Many bug fixes and minor optimizations
>  * Installation instructions, documentation, recipes, mailing list
> info and assorted other items can be found at the website,
> http://yt.enzotools.org/ along with an annotated changelog at
> http://yt.enzotools.org/doc/changelog.html .
>
> yt is a Free and Open Source project, and we invite you to get
> involved. For more information, join the yt-dev mailing list, or see
> the hacking guidelines on the Wiki:
> http://yt.enzotools.org/wiki/HackingGuidelines .
>
> Sincerely,
>
> The yt development team:
>
> Matthew Turk
> Stephen Skory
> Britton Smith
> Jeff Oishi
> Sam Skillman
> Devin Silvia
> John Wise
> David Collins
>

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