[yt-dev] [PyNE] ANN: yt-3.0 released!

[Anthony Scopatz]

A HUGE Congratulations to the entire yt-dev team and community!

Be Well
Anthony


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> The yt community is proud to announce the release of yt 3.0.
>
> yt (http://yt-project.org) is an open source, community-developed
> toolkit for analysis and visualization of volumetric data of all
> types, with a particular emphasis on astrophysical simulations and
> nuclear engineering simulations.
>
> This release of yt features an entirely rewritten infrastructure for
> data ingestion, indexing, and representation.  While past versions of
> yt were focused on analysis and visualization of data structured as
> regular grids, this release features full support for particle
> (discrete point) data such as N-body and SPH data, irregular
> hexahedral mesh data, and data organized via octrees.  This
> infrastructure will be extended in future versions for high-fidelity
> representation of unstructured mesh datasets.
>
> Highlighted changes in yt 3.0:
>
>  * Units now permeate the code base, enabling self-consistent unit
> transformations of all arrays and quantities returned by yt.
>  * Particle data is now supported using a lightweight octree.  SPH
> data can be smoothed onto an adaptively-defined mesh using standard
> SPH smoothing
>  * Support for octree AMR codes
>  * Preliminary Support for non-Cartesian data, such as cylindrical,
> spherical, and geographical
>  * Revamped analysis framework for halos and halo catalogs, including
> direct ingestion and analysis of halo catalogs of several different
> formats
>  * Support for multi-fluid datasets and datasets containing multiple
> particle types
>  * Flexible support for dynamically defining new particle types using
> filters on existing particle types or by combining different particle
> types.
>  * Vastly improved support for loading generic grid, AMR, hexahedral
> mesh, and particle without hand-coding a frontend for a particular
> data format.
>  * New frontends for ART, ARTIO, Boxlib, Chombo, FITS, GDF, Subfind,
> Rockstar, Pluto, RAMSES, SDF, Gadget, OWLS, PyNE, Tipsy, as well as
> rewritten frontends for Enzo, FLASH, Athena, and generic data.
>  * First release to support installation of yt on Windows
>  * Extended capabilities for construction of simulated observations,
> and new facilities for analyzing and visualizing FITS images and cube
> data
>  * Many performance improvements
>
> This release is the first of several; while most functionality from
> the previous generation of yt has been updated to work with yt 3.0, it
> does not yet have feature parity in all respects.  While the core of
> yt is stable, we suggest the support for analysis modules and volume
> rendering be viewed as a late-stage beta, with a series of additional
> releases (3.1, 3.2, etc) appearing over the course of the next year to
> improve support in these areas.
>
> For more information, including installation instructions, links to
> community resources, and information on contributing to yt’s
> development, please see the yt homepage at http://yt-project.org and
> the documentation for yt-3.0 at http://yt-project.org/docs/3.0
>
> yt is the product of a large community of developers and users and we
> are extraordinarily grateful for and proud of their contributions.  yt
> 3.0 features contributions from over 60 individuals, constituting
> almost 5000 commits. For many contributors, this is the first release
> featuring their work.
>
> Please forward this announcement on to any interested parties, and
> look for information soon about upcoming workshops focused on yt and
> applying it to your data.
>
> Thank you,
>
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