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[Opal] OPAL 2022.1.0 has been released

From: "Gsell Achim (PSI)" <achim.gsell AT psi.ch>
To: opal <opal AT lists.psi.ch>
Subject: [Opal] OPAL 2022.1.0 has been released
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 12:31:32 +0000
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Dear OPAL users,

OPAL 2022.1.0 has been released!

New features are:

Python interface for OPAL.New element attribute (DELETEONTRANSVERSEEXIT, default true) to disable deletion of particles when exiting transversally.Command-line argument --help-command to display the help for opal commands and their attributes.Beam stripping physics in OPAL-t.New option (COMPUTEPERCENTILES, default false) to compute percentiles.New end field model using an asymmetric enge function for Scaling FFA magnet.New option (DUMPBEAMMATRIX, default false) to write 6D beam (sigma) matrix in statistics output.P3M solver (Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh.

For more details and fixed bugs please read the release notes:
https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src/wikis/ReleaseNotes/OPAL-2022.1

The manual can be found here:
HTML: http://amas.web.psi.ch/opal/Documentation/2022.1/
PDF: http://amas.web.psi.ch/opal/Documentation/2022.1/Manual.pdf

More information including links to download the source code and binary packages can be found here:
https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src/wikis/
Binary packages are available for Linux (x86_64) and macOS (x86_64 and arm64).

Please note (macOS only):

After unpacking all files have the extended attribute com.apple.quarantine set. You have to unset this attribute before running OPAL:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine OPAL-2022.1

On behalf of the OPAL developers

Achim

PS: please report all issues to opal AT lists.psi.ch

Senior Scientist
Paul Scherrer Institut
High Performance Computing and Emerging Technologies
OHSA/B14
5232 Villigen PSI

[Opal] OPAL 2022.1.0 has been released, Gsell Achim (PSI), 11/02/2022