[yt-users] yt-2.2 Release Announcement

[Elizabeth Tasker]

Sweet! Looks awesome~



Matthew Turk wrote:
> Hi Elizabeth,
>
> Sure, removing it was an accident.  In changing the layout on the main
> page the toctree never got generated.  Should be fixed now.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Elizabeth Tasker <taskere at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Hey guys --
>>
>> I have one small complaint about the new docs: you've taken away the
>> right-hand-side navigation bar that used to list "Analyzing Data" ,
>> "Visualizing Data", "Reference", "Cookbook" etc.
>>
>> That was super useful for getting around -- would you consider putting it
>> back?
>>
>> Elizabeth
>>
>>
>>
>> Cameron Hummels wrote:
>>     
>>> Release Announcement
>>>
>>> (Please feel encouraged to forward this message to any other interested
>>> parties.)
>>>
>>> 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, http://yt-project.org/
>>> , 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
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> * Slices
>>> * Projections
>>> * Profiles
>>> * Arbitrary Data Selection
>>> * Cosmological Analysis
>>> * Halo finding
>>> * Parallel AMR Volume Rendering
>>> * Gravitationally Bound Objects Analysis
>>>
>>> There are a few major additions since yt-2.1 (Released April 8, 2011),
>>> including:
>>>
>>> * New web GUI “Reason,” designed for efficient remote usage over SSH
>>> tunnels
>>> * Command-line submission to the yt Hub (http://hub.yt-project.org/)
>>> <about:blank>
>>> * Absorption line spectrum generator for cosmological simulations
>>> * Support for the Nyx code
>>> * An order of magnitude speed improvement in the RAMSES support
>>> * Experimental interoperability with ParaView
>>> * Quad-tree projections, speeding up the process of projecting by up to an
>>> order of magnitude and providing better load balancing
>>> * “mapserver” for in-browser, Google Maps-style slice and projection
>>> visualization
>>> * Many bug fixes and performance improvements
>>>
>>> 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 http://hub.yt-project.org/ .
>>>
>>> Documentation: http://yt-project.org/doc/
>>> Installation:http://yt-project.org/doc/advanced/installing.html
>>> Cookbook: http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/recipes.html
>>> Get Involved:http://yt-project.org/doc/advanced/developing.html
>>>
>>> If you can’t wait to get started, install with:
>>>
>>> $ wget http://hg.yt-project.org/yt/raw/stable/doc/install_script.sh
>>> $ bash install_script.sh
>>>
>>> Development has been sponsored by the NSF, DOE, and University funding. We
>>> invite you to get involved with developing and using yt!
>>>
>>> Please forward this announcement to interested parties.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> The yt development team
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
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