From schnetter at cct.lsu.edu  Mon Feb  2 22:04:31 2009
From: schnetter at cct.lsu.edu (Erik Schnetter)
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 22:04:31 -0600
Subject: [News] Cactus 4.0 beta 16 released
Message-ID: <99937CC4-96D7-4530-A1F7-895A76FB54BA@cct.lsu.edu>

We are happy to announce the availability of Cactus 4.0 beta 16, the  
next stable version of Cactus <http://www.cactuscode.org/>.  This  
release contains many features and improvements that were designed,  
implemented, or contributed over the past four years, and it supports  
several new system architectures.  We have also updated the  
documentation and made it more complete.

We provide templates for configuration files for a set of  
architectures and systems (currently available at <https://svn.cct.lsu.edu/repos/numrel/simfactory/optionlists/ 
 >).  We are running nightly build tests on several architectures and  
machines, with results publicly available at <http://portal.cactuscode.org/ 
 >.

The new features include a new interface for reduction operators, a  
new mechanism for ensuring that initial data are set up correctly, and  
a new configuration mechanism for interfacing to external libraries.  
Among the new architectures are Blue Gene/P, Cray XT-4, Loongson 2F,  
and SiCortex.  This has been available in the development version of  
Cactus for some time.  Detailed release notes can be found at <http://www.cactuscode.org/Releases 
 >.

- The Cactus Team



The work leading to this release received support from the NSF via the  
XiRel <http://www.cct.lsu.edu/xirel/>, Alpaca <http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/Alpaca/ 
 >, and CyberTools <http://cybertools.loni.org/> grants, and from NASA  
via the ParCa grant.  The development of the the Cactus portals and  
the HTTPS web server was funded by the German Bundesministerium f?r  
Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) <http://www.bmbf.de> through the  
AstroGrid-D project <http://www.gac-grid.org>.  The work on Cactus was  
also supported by various LONI and TeraGrid resource allocations.



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