Note
 OPAL 1.6 will be the last minor release of OPAL 1. New features will not be implemented in this major version. Bugs will still be fixed. We are working on OPAL 2 with many new features.

Installation of the binary package

Note
 The latest version of the binary package is OPAL 1.6.2-1 including OPAL 1.6.2.

  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-1.6.2-1-x86_64-linux.tar.xz

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

     source "$PREFIX/OPAL-1.6.1/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!

Solved issues concerned by users in 1.6. branch

  • Issue #243 Collimator lost particle checks

Solved issues concerned by users in 1.6.2

  • Issue #213 correct phase output in multiprocessor mode

  • Issue #217 SAAMG solver fixed

Solved issues concerned by users in 1.6.1

  • Issue #169 New Material: BoronCarbide

  • Issue #106 Segfault in case of Material at beginning of beam line

  • Issue #102 PSDUMPFRAME report is wrong in OPTION TELL=TRUE

  • Issue #105 RectangularDomain::getBoundaryStencil typo

  • Correct manual: no particle matter interaction for OPAL-cycl in 1.6.x

Solved issues concerned by users in 1.6.0

  • Issue #7

  • Issue #12

  • Issue #14

  • Issue #15

  • Issue #25

  • Issue #33

  • Issue #35

  • Issue #41

  • Issue #42

  • Issue #52

  • Issue #55

  • Issue #57

  • Issue #58

  • Issue #64

  • Issue #71

  • Issue #77

  • Issue #90

  • Issue #94

  • Issue #125

  • Issue #128

  • Issue #129

  • Issue #138

  • Issue #140

  • Regression tests are all fixed (issue #35 et al.)

  • The old behaviour to replace unknown elements with markers is now turned into an error.

  • Auto phasing reported by John Power.

  • Restart with h5 files from OPAL <= 1.4.0 will give Error{0}> H5 rc= -2 in …​. This can be ignored.

A full list of (solved) issues can be found in the issue tracker.

Known Issues

To date the following issues are not solved and scheduled for OPAL-1.6.1

  • Issue #135 Restart in OPAL-cycl

  • Issue #149 Degrader related

  • Issue #162 RBend related

Input file related changes in OPAL-1.6

  • Input files must have a version tag, for example

      OPTION, VERSION=10600;

    indicating version 1.6.x

  • OPAL is now fully typed. Each variable has to have a type for example

      REAL Edes=.072;
  REAL gamma=(Edes+PMASS)/PMASS;

    Only REAL, STRING, BOOL and ARRAY are supported