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@ax3l ax3l released this 19 Oct 13:45
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ax3l Axel Huebl
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This release adds CPU support, making PIConGPU a many-core, single-source, performance portable PIC code for all kinds of supercomputers. We added particle filters to initialization routines and plugins, allowing fine-grained in situ control of physical observables. All particle plugins now support those filters and can be called multiple times with different settings.

Particle probes and more particle initialization manipulators have been added. A particle merging plugin has been added. The Thomas-Fermi model has been improved, allowing to set empirical cut-offs. PIConGPU input and output (plugins) received initial Python bindings for efficient control and analysis.

User input files have been dramatically simplified. For example, creating the PIConGPU binary from input files for GPU or CPU is now as easy as pic-build -b cuda or pic-build -b omp2b respectively.

Please refer to our ChangeLog for a full list of features, fixes and user interface changes before getting started.

Thanks to Axel Huebl, René Widera, Benjamin Worpitz, Sebastian Starke, Marco Garten, Richard Pausch, Alexander Matthes, Sergei Bastrakov, Heiko Burau, Alexander Debus, Ilja Göthel, Sophie Rudat, Jeffrey Kelling, Klaus Steiniger, and Sebastian Hahn for contributing to this release!

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