[yt-users] yt-2.2 Release Announcement

Elizabeth Tasker taskere at mcmaster.ca
Fri Sep 2 11:02:31 PDT 2011


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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