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

[Steve Quenette]

Well done Walter!


Steve.



On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 09:05 -0700, Thorsten Becker wrote:
> 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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Steve Quenette
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