[CIG-LONG] Gale 2.0.1

[mspieg]

Thanks Laetitia,
    Yes,  we should keep up-to-date tar balls of all previous releases available on the web-site.  If you made any additional patches to 1.6.1 that are not incorporated in the official CIG release, please let us know and hopefully we can also release a patched version.  

thanks
marc spiegelman

On Sep 3, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Laetitia Le Pourhiet wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been asked this question by some people including eunso.
> 
> Somehow, the link to gale 1.6.1 has been removed from the webage
> and it is not in the user manual anymore.
> 
> I still have the mercurial links to this version in the repository but
> it could be nice for people who would like to run Q1Q1 with multigrid
> to have the latest tarball of 1.6.1 on the website as well as the
> mercurial links.
> 
> many thanks,
> 
> Laetitia
> 
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Walter Landry <wlandry at caltech.edu> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I am pleased to announce the release of Gale 2.0.1, a finite element
>> code for the long term tectonics community.  The main feature of this
>> release is the addition of a stabilizing term for models with a free
>> surface.  Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.  The release notes are
>> attached below.
>> 
>> You can download binaries or the source code from
>> 
>>   http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/gale/
>> 
>> Installation instructions are in the bundled README and INSTALL files.
>> 
>> My last day at CIG is this Friday.  So if you run into problems,
>> please direct any questions to the mailing list at
>> cig-long at geodynamics.org.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Walter Landry
>> 
>> 2.0.1
>> ----------------------------------
>> 
>> * A free surface stabilization term has been implemented.  This
>>  applies a non-linear damping term to all models by default.
>> 
>> * The temperature mesh has been changed to be Q2, the same as the
>>  velocity mesh.  This fixes problems when running thermal problems
>>  with distorting meshes.
>> 
>> * Documentation has been added for modeling density and expansivity
>>  changes as an arbitrary function of pressure and/or temperature.  This
>>  is a simple way of modeling phase transitions.
>> 
>> * You may now specify a moving static side.  This is useful when
>>  modeling a moving wall boundary that only covers part of the
>>  boundary.
>> 
>> * You may now use up to 30 different files for input as boundary
>>  conditions etc.
>> 
>> * A bug in parsing equations with "<" has been fixed.
>> 
>> * There is now a single binary for Mac 10.5 and later.  10.4 and
>>  earlier are no longer supported.
>> 
>> * The configure script now accepts --linkflags.
>> 
>> * Fix a bug when compiling Gale without HDF5.
>> 
>> * Checkpointing now occurs on the first solve, before taking a time step.
>> 
>> * Gale now works with Petsc 3.2.
>> 
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