News

Changes from 1.3.2 to 1.4.0

  • fixing combination of OFFSET[XYZ] and CZERO,

  • output the reference particle trajectory of every dipole,

  • adding general multipole field,

  • BoundaryGeometry: Bugfix in computing triangle normals,

  • fixing calculation of external fields for output,

  • prevent access to memory that isn’t allocated,

  • properly freeing memory,

  • properly initializing member variables,

  • fix material definitions,

  • change mean excitation energy in collimator material,

  • fixing orientation of triangles in boundary geometries,

  • fixing insertion of triangle normals into array,

  • fixing interpolation of data in CSR wake computation,

  • Gaussian distributions:

  • change of shape of cutoff from rectangular to elliptic ,

  • always allow to use SIGMAR and CUTOFFR,

  • fixing collection of all sections with surface physics,

  • fixing linearization of field map data for type 3DDynamic,

  • fixing enlargement of mesh for space charge calculation.

  • fixing output of H5Part-file in simulations with follow-up tracks

  • fixing number of particles in flat-top part of emitted distributions

  • fixing thermal energy for emission model 'None'

  • remove delay of emission process (OPAL-T)

  • build process adapted to Intel compiler

  • allow simulations with multiple SurfacePhysics processes (OPAL-T)

  • kickers implemented in OPAL-T,

  • restart from any step and any H5Part file,

  • fine-grained control over amount of output in OPAL-T,

  • array-type TrackRun attributes MAXSTEPS, DT and ZSTOP (currently OPAL-T only),

  • statistics file now compliant to SDDS format,

  • rewrite of autophase algorithm,

  • added stand-alone autophase tracker,

  • better exception handling,

  • follow-up track now working correctly,

  • adding MatchedGauss distribution,

  • return type of ElementBase::getType changed to enum which is faster to compare than strings.

Installation

  1. The package can be installed wherever you want. Let’s name this directory $PREFIX.

  2. change your working directory to $PREFIX

  3. Un-tar the package

     tar xf OPAL-1.4.0-1-XXX.tar.bz2

  4. Source the OPAL shell profile. For the time being only sh-like shells are supported.

     source $PREFIX/OPAL-1.4.0-1/etc/profile.d/opal.sh

  5. Now you are ready to run opal, opal converter tools and the visualization tool H5root.

MPI is included in the OPAL package. If you want to run OPAL with MPI, be sure to use the MPI utilities shipped with OPAL!

Requirements

Linux

The OPAL package for Linux has been compiled on ScientificLinux 6. It should run on almost all current Linux distribution and has been successfully tested on:

  • Redhat Enterprise Linux 6, ScientificLinux 6, CentOS 6

  • Redhat Enterprise Linux 7, ScientificLinux 7, CentOS 7

  • Ubuntu 12

  • Ubuntu 14

  • OpenSUSE 12

  • OpenSUSE 13

The following libraries (which are usually installed by default, even on very lean systems) are required:

  • glibc 2.12 or newer

  • libncurses 5.7 or newer

  • libz 1.2.3 or newer

Mac OS X

The OPAL package for Mac OS X has been compiled and tested on Mac OS X 10.9. There are no additional requirements like the accelerator framework. The package has been tested on

  • Mac OS X 10.9

  • Mac OS X 10.10