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diff --git a/Carpet/CarpetWeb/index.html b/Carpet/CarpetWeb/index.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c69a5ceda --- /dev/null +++ b/Carpet/CarpetWeb/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,287 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?> +<!DOCTYPE html + PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<!-- $Header: /home/eschnett/C/carpet/Carpet/Carpet/CarpetWeb/index.html,v 1.9 2004/08/07 10:38:07 schnetter Exp $ --> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15" /> + <title>CarpetCode</title> + </head> + + <body> + + <h1 align="center">CarpetCode</h1> + +<table> +<tr> +<td valign="top" bgcolor="#ffcc77" width="1%"> + +<p><b>CarpetCode</b><br /> +<a href="http://www.carpetcode.org/">home page</a></p> + +<p><b>Documentation</b><br /> +<a href="doc/documentation.ps">Introduction</a> (ps, 300 kB)<br /> +<a href="doc/first-steps.ps">First Steps</a> (ps, 160 kB)<br /> +<a href="doc/internals.ps">Internals</a> (ps, 130 kB)</p> + +<p><b>Mailing lists</b><br /> +<a href="http://lists.carpetcode.org/listinfo/developers/">Subscribe</a><br /> +<a href="http://lists.carpetcode.org/archives/developers/">Archive</a></p> + +<p><b>Development</b><br /> +<a href="http://bugs.carpetcode.org/">Bugzilla</a><br /> +<a href="feature-requests.html">Missing features</a><br /> +<a href="bugs.html">Known bugs</a></p> + +<p><b>Related</b><br /> +<a href="http://www.cactuscode.org/">Cactus</a></p> +<!-- <a href="http://testweb.aei.mpg.de/NumRelWeb/">numrel@aei</a></p> --> + +<p><b>Feedback</b><br /> +<a href="mailto:schnetter@aei.mpg.de">Send email</a></p> + +</td> +<td valign="top"> + + <p>Carpet is a mesh refinement driver for <a + href="http://www.cactuscode.org/">Cactus</a>. Cactus is a + framework for solving time-dependent partial differential + equations on uniform grids, and Carpet is an extension of Cactus + that make mesh refinement possible. Carpet was originally written + in 2001 by <a + href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~schnette/">Erik + Schnetter</a> at the <a + href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/">TAT</a> + (Theoretische Astrophysik Tübingen) and is currently maintained at + the <a href="http://www.aei.mpg.de/">AEI</a> (Max-Planck-Institut + für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut). These pages + describe Carpet and its current development.</p> + + <hr /> + + <h2>News</h2> + + <p><b>July 31, 2004:</b> Carpet seems to have reached a point + where it is stable enough to be useful for at least some projects. + Consequently, people expressed the wish to have a version of + Carpet which is stable and sees no disrupting development. The + idea is to have two "branches" of Carpet: a stable version for + production use, and a development version which might not be as + stable. We plan to make the split in about three weeks. The + discussion about this is held on the mailing list; your input is + welcome.</p> + + <p><b>April 7, 2004:</b> Up to now, all Carpet thorns have been + living in a single arrangement for Cactus. This caused problems, + because stable thorns, development thorns, and outdated thorns + were sitting next to each other, confusing newcomers. We have <a + href="#getting-the-code">moved the Carpet arrangement</a> to a new + repository and split it into four. Access to the old Carpet + arrangement has been disabled.</p> + + <p><b>March 3, 2004:</b> We have recently had trouble with I/O + throuth the <a + href="http://zeus.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~jshalf/FlexIO/">FlexIO</a> + library. We suspect that it might have a bug that causes HDF5 + output to fail under certain, random conditions. We have written + a new thorn CarpetIOHDF5 which uses the <a + href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/">HDF5</a> library directly, + while remaining compatible to the FlexIO file format. Please test + this thorn, and report any problems or incompatibilities you + find.</p> + + <p>In <b>January 2004</b>, <a + href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~kobras/">Daniel + Kobras</a> set up <a href="http://bugs.carpetcode.org/">Bugzilla + for Carpet</a>. <a href="http://www.bugzilla.org/">Bugzilla</a> + is a bug-tracking system that will, so we hope, help us remember + what is missing or broken in Carpet.</p> + + <p>In <b>October 2003</b>, Erik Schnetter, Scott H. Hawley, and + Ian Hawke published the preprint "Evolutions in 3D numerical + relativity using fixed mesh refinement" as <a + href="http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0310042">gr-qc/0310042</a>. Its + main point is to present tests of Carpet with the BSSN code (AEI's + spacetime evolution code), and to show that mesh refinement does + not introduce instabilities.</p> + + <p>In <b>August 2003</b>, <a + href="http://www.carpetcode.org/">these web pages</a> were + created.</p> + + <p><b>May 2003</b> has informally been termed <a + href="CarpetMonth/index.html">"Carpet month"</a>. In a flurry of + activity, bugs were fixed and some features added. The BSSN code + of the numerical relativity group at the <a + href="http://www.aei.mpg.de/">AEI</a> now works together with + Carpet.</p> + + <hr /> + + <h2>Documentation</h2> + + <p>We have accumulated a few pieces of documentation:</p> + <ul> + <li>An <a href="doc/documentation.ps">introduction</a> + (ps, 300 kB) to Carpet, as well as a guide to the + first steps for using it. Everybody should have read this. + (This is the same as the Arrangement Guide from the Carpet + sources.)</li> + + <li><a + href=http://www.astro.psu.edu/nr/people/sperhake_ulrich.html">Ulrich + Sperhake</a> wrote a tutorial outlining the <a + href="doc/first-steps.ps">first steps</a> (ps, 160 kB) + that one has to take to install Carpet and run an example + application.</li> + + <li>An explanation of the <a href="doc/internals.ps">internal + workings</a> (ps, 130 kB) of Carpet. You should read + this if you want to modify Carpet.</li> + + <li>The individual Thorn Guides of Carpet. They are available + with the source code. They give details about the thorns' APIs + and user interfaces.</li> + + <li>Thanks to <a + href="http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/">Doxygen</a>, we now + have an <a href="doxygen/html/index.html">overview</a> over all + the routines and data structures in Carpet. Most individual + Doxygen tags are still missing, but the extracted documentation + is already very useful. (The online documentation might not + always be up to date; in case of doubt, extract the + documentation yourself.)</li> + </ul> + + <hr /> + + <h2>Interacting with the developers</h2> + + <p>Most discussions about Carpet, i.e. user questions, feature + requests, and bug reports, are held on the Carpet developers' + mailing list <a + href="mailto:developers@lists.carpetcode.org">developers@lists.carpetcode.org</a>. + You can subscribe and unsubscribe from our <a + href="http://lists.carpetcode.org/">list management web page</a>. + You will also find the mailing list archive there. We thank <a + href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~kobras/">Daniel + Kobras</a> for managing the mailing list server.</p> + + <p>We have started to use <a + href="http://www.bugzilla.org/">Bugzilla</a> to keep track of + requested features or reported bugs in Carpet. You can submit or + comment on issues from our <a + href="http://bugs.carpetcode.org/">Bugzilla pages</a> once you + have created an account there. The old <a + href="feature-requests.html">list of missing features</a> and <a + href="bugs.html">list of known bugs</a> have not yet been moved + over to Bugzilla.</p> + + <hr /> + + <h2 id="getting-the-code">Getting the code</h2> + + <p>Carpet is distributed under the <a + href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html">GNU General + Public License (GPL)</a>. It might be released under the GNU + Lesser General Public License (LGPL) in the future, to match the + distribution terms of Cactus.</p> + + <p>Carpet is a driver for Cactus. It works as a part of Cactus, + and you will need to have the developers' version of Cactus + installed before you can use Carpet. Please look at the <a + href="http://www.cactuscode.org/">Cactus web pages</a> for an + introduction to Cactus and for installation instructions.</p> + + <p>Carpet is available via anonymous <a + href="http://www.cvshome.org/">CVS</a>. The CVSROOT is + <code>:pserver:cvs_anon@cvs.carpetcode.org:/home/cvs/carpet</code>, + and there are several arrangements, each living in a directory. + The arrangement <code>Carpet</code> contains the basic driver part + that everybody needs. The arrangement <code>CarpetExtra</code> + contains useful add-ons and some example code. Development of new + thorns happens in the <code>CarpetDev</code> arrangement, which + means that the code in there is not to be trusted. And finally, + there is a graveyard arrangement <code>CarpetAttic</code> of + things that only used to be useful and are now in a state of + decay.</p> + + <p>The password for anonymous CVS access is <code>anon</code>. We + thank the <a + href="http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/">Institut für + Astronomie und Astrophysik</a> of the Universität Tübingen for + hosting the CVS server.</p> + + <hr /> + + <h2>Pretty pictures</h2> + + <p>We are currently collecting pretty pictures and movies of + simulations that were performed with Carpet. Sorry; there is + nothing to see so far.</p> + + <hr /> + + <h2>Making sense of results</h2> + + <p>Three-dimensional time-dependent simulation results are + difficult enough to interpret when the grid is uniform. With mesh + refinement, the sheer amount of available data makes it necessary + to use professional tools to examine the data. This is not only + the case for "big physics runs", where one (should) know in + advance what to expect, but especially during development, where + things do not always go as planned. <a + href="http://www.aei.mpg.de/~tradke/">Thomas Radke</a> was kind + enough to write an <a + href="http://www.cactuscode.org/VizTools/OpenDX.html">import + module</a> for the visualisation tool <a + href="http://www.research.ibm.com/dx/">OpenDX</a>. He has also + produced an <a href="pictures/carpetwavetoy.jpeg">example + picture</a> (JPEG, 300 KB) from a test run with the scalar + wave equation.</p> + + <hr /> + + <h2>Related projects</h2> + + <ul> + <li>Physicsc: <a href="http://www.cactuscode.org/">Cactus</a>, <a + href="http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/">numrel@aei</a></li> + + <li>I/O: <a href="http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/">HDF5</a>, <a + href="http://www.zib.de/benger/F5/doc/">F5</a></li> + + <li>Visualisation: <a href="http://www.amiravis.com/">Amira</a>, + <a href="http://www.opendx.org/">OpenDX</a></li> + </ul> + + <hr /> + + <p> + <a href="http://www.xemacs.org/About/created.html"><img + src="cbxSmall.jpg" alt="Created with XEmacs!" height="36" + width="100" /></a> + + <a href="http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/"><img + src="logoab8.png" alt="Best Viewed With Any Browser" height="31" + width="88" /></a> + + <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img + src="valid-xhtml10.png" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" + width="88" /></a> + </p> + + <address><a href="mailto:schnetter@uni-tuebingen.de">Erik Schnetter</a></address> +<p> +<!-- Created: Tue Aug 12 12:12:08 CEST 2003 --> +<!-- hhmts start --> +Last modified: Sat Aug 7 12:37:09 CEST 2004 +<!-- hhmts end --> +</p> + +</td> +</tr> +</table> + </body> +</html> |