[CIG-LONG] [Fwd: [CIG-ALL] Gale 1.3.0]

[Thorsten Becker]

I think I speak for all in the cig-long community to commend Walter for
speedily addressing many of the issues that came up in our phone
conference. Thanks!
Cheers
Thorsten

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Walter Landry <walter at geodynamics.org>
> To: cig-all at geodynamics.org
> Subject: [CIG-ALL] Gale 1.3.0
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I am pleased to announce the release of Gale 1.3.0, an implicit finite
> element code for the long term tectonics community.  This latest
> release features more benchmarks, thoroughly tested friction
> implementations, and a number of robustness and memory fixes.  You
> will probably have to make minor changes to your old input files to
> use them in this release.  See the MIGRATION file for details.
> 
> You can download binaries or the source code from
> 
>    http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/packages/long/gale/
> 
> Installation instructions are in the bundled README and INSTALL files.
> 
> Cheers,
> Walter Landry
> walter at geodynamics.org
> 
> Release Notes
> ----------------------------------
> 
> * Nodal pressures have been introduced, eliminating the even-odd
>   instability seen in the regular pressure solution.  These pressures
>   are now used for calculating yielding and friction.  This will
>   require anyone using those features to make some minor changes to their
>   input files (see the file MIGRATION for details).
> * Results for all of the Geomod 2004 benchmarks are now included and
>   described in the manual.
> * The vtk output for particles now includes a material index, making
>   it easy to distinguish between materials with the same properties
>   for visualization.
> * Fixing internal degrees of freedom with ShapeVC's is now better
>   documented in the manual, including tips on how to use them for
>   boundary conditions.
> * It is now possible to specify both the upper and lower values for
>   StepFunction.
> * A bug has been fixed in the diffusion example for surface processes.
> * Some bugs in the static and kinetic friction boundary conditions
>   have been fixed, and they are now thoroughly tested and benchmarked.
> * A minor bug in the Mohr Coulomb yielding model has been fixed.  It
>   has also been made more robust and now works with stiff materials.
> * A number of memory bugs have been fixed.
> 
> The current goals are:
> 
>   * Merge Gale back with the VPAC code.  This should give Gale multigrid
>     solvers, restart capability, and improved PETSc compatibility.
>   * Better normal stress boundary conditions
>   * Deformed lower boundaries
>   * Interface with custom surface process models in parallel
>   * Implement the Geomod 2008 benchmarks
> 
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