GAMER 2.1.0

Release Notes

Contributors

Listed in alphabetical order; including 4 new contributors (in bold)

• He-Feng Hsieh
• Wei-Ting Liao
• Kuo-Chuan Pan
• Hsi-Yu Schive
• Ui-Han Zhang
• John ZuHone

Critical Bugfixes

None

Major Improvements

• Integrate CPU and GPU solvers (PR 9)
• Support MHD (PR 13)

Minor Improvements

• Support computing radial profiles on the fly (PR 11)
• Improve Grackle support (PR 16)
• Switch to 64-bit field indices (PR 19)
• Support Turing GPUs (PR 12)
• Support HDF5 output in the analysis tool gamer_extract_uniform
• [Bugfix] Correct the normalization of electron density for Grackle (PR 16)

GAMER 2.0.0

Release Notes

This is the first formal public release of GAMER.

Contributors

• Hsi-Yu Schive
• John ZuHone

Critical Bugfixes

None

Major Improvements

• Support the non-equilibrium primordial chemistry network in Grackle (see GRACKLE_PRIMORDIAL)
• Support a new infrastructure for adding user-defined grid fields and particle attributes (see this wiki page)
• GAMER-2 code paper has been accepted for publication

Minor Improvements and Bugfixes

• Support compilation on macOS (see PR 2)
• Revise the yt frontend of GAMER to improve performance and memory consumption (see yt PR 1935)
• Support loading grid and particle initial conditions from files (see this wiki page)
• Make random number generators more portable (see PR 3)
• Update documentation