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We are proud to announce the release of yt version 2.2. This
release includes several new features, bug fixes, and numerous
improvements to the code base and documentation. At the new
yt homepage, </span><a href="http://yt-project.org/"><span
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">http://yt-project.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> , an
installation script, a cookbook, documentation and a guide to
getting involved can be found. We are particularly proud of
the new GUI, entitled “Reason,” which allows real-time
exploration of datasets, and which can be used (locally or
remotely over SSH) with no dependencies other than a web
browser. A basic demonstration of its usage can be found at </span><br>
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">yt is
a community-developed analysis and visualization toolkit for
astrophysical simulation data. yt provides full support for
Enzo, Orion, Nyx, and FLASH codes, with preliminary support
for the RAMSES, ART, and Maestro codes. It can be used to
create many common types of data products such as:</span><br>
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Slices</span><br>
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Projections</span><br>
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Profiles</span><br>
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Arbitrary Data Selection</span><br>
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Cosmological Analysis</span><br>
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Halo finding</span><br>
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Parallel AMR Volume Rendering</span><br>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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Gravitationally Bound Objects Analysis</span><br>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">There
are a few major additions since yt-2.1 (Released April 8,
2011), including:</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* New
web GUI “Reason,” designed for efficient remote usage over SSH
tunnels</span><br>
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Command-line submission to the yt Hub </span><a
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baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">(http://hub.yt-project.org/)</span></a><span
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Absorption line spectrum generator for cosmological
simulations</span><br>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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Support for the Nyx code</span><br>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">* An
order of magnitude speed improvement in the RAMSES support</span><br>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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Experimental interoperability with ParaView</span><br>
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Quad-tree projections, speeding up the process of projecting
by up to an order of magnitude and providing better load
balancing</span><br>
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“mapserver” for in-browser, Google Maps-style slice and
projection visualization</span><br>
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Many bug fixes and performance improvements</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">With
this release, we also unveil the yt Hub, an astrophysical
simulation-specific location for sharing scripts, analysis and
visualization tools, documents and repositories used to
generated publications. The yt Hub has been designed to allow
programmatic access from the command line, and we encourage
you to browse the current offerings and contribute your own.
The yt Hub can be found at </span><a
href="http://hub.yt-project.org/"><span style="font-size:
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">http://hub.yt-project.org/</span></a><span
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> .</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Documentation:
</span><a href="http://yt-project.org/doc/"><span
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153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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">http://yt-project.org/doc/</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Installation:</span><a
href="http://yt-project.org/doc/advanced/installing.html"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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">http://yt-project.org/doc/advanced/installing.html</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Cookbook:
</span><a href="http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/recipes.html"><span
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153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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">http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/recipes.html</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Get
Involved:</span><a
href="http://yt-project.org/doc/advanced/developing.html"><span
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153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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">http://yt-project.org/doc/advanced/developing.html</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">If
you can’t wait to get started, install with: </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">$
wget
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hg.yt-project.org/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh">http://hg.yt-project.org/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh</a></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">$
bash </span><!-- <a href="http://install_script.sh/"> --><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;
">install_script.sh</span><!-- </a> --><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align:
baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Development
has been sponsored by the NSF, DOE, and University funding.
We invite you to get involved with developing and using yt!</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Please
forward this announcement to interested parties.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sincerely,
</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The
yt development team<br>
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