Re: New patch release: fluka2008.3d

From: Giuseppe Battistoni <Giuseppe.Battistoni_at_mi.infn.it>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:39:17 +0100

Dear Filimon,
for what concerns the Fluka VMC interface, please refer to the mail
sent to the list on 24-3-2010, available at the following link:
http://www.fluka.org/web_archive/earchive/new-fluka-discuss/2798.html
Best Regards
        Giuseppe Battistoni
        for the FLUKA team

On 1/13/2011 5:47 PM, Filimon Roukoutakis wrote:
> Dear FLUKA developers,
>
> according to the release notes of fluka2008.3c the VMC functionality
> would be re enabled as soon as Fluka VMC would be available from the
> Fluka site. Could you provide an estimate on the schedule for this? I am
> currently not able to find any relevant reference on the download page.
> Is there maybe any special procedure to be followed? We are in need of
> this functionality to proceed with our project. Otherwise (cc-ing also
> fluka-users for this), any user experience for a semi-automated (perhaps
> via xml?) ROOT TGeo conversion to Fluka geometry would be appreciated.
> Regards,
> filimon
>
> On 10/16/2010 11:22 AM, Alfredo Ferrari wrote:
>> Dear FLUKA users
>>
>> a new (and final, see later) patch release of fluka2008 has been
>> pushed to
>> the web site.
>>
>> This release contains a few small fixes and two functionality additions,
>> as well as a reworked license with respect to Fluka2008.3c.0.
>>
>> Most of the fixes are likely to be irrelevant for the majority of the
>> users, however it is safer and recommended to immediately move to
>> Fluka2008.3d. The move should be painless since there is no change in
>> the physics.
>>
>> As usual, support and bug corrections will be provided for this
>> version only.
>>
>> The bug fixes (most of them are relevant only for very specific
>> applications):
>>
>> - a possible issue with the primary ionization algorithm when setting
>> primary ionization electron positions has been solved (before the
>> code was crashing when meeting that condition)
>>
>> - an issue with the position of produced optical (scintillation) photons
>> by a heavy nucleus recoil after inelastic interactions has been
>> solved
>>
>> - a possible (very) rare crash during high energy inelastic interactions
>> when the target nucleus is highly depleted has been solved
>>
>> - a possible (very) rare crash in the dE/dx fluctuation algorithm has
>> been solved
>>
>> - a possible rare crash when generating scintillation photons by low
>> energy electrons has been solved
>>
>> - the issue related to the "NO CHANNEL SELECTED" message reported on
>> fluka-discuss has been solved
>>
>> As far as I know, with the exception of the last bug, no user ever met
>> those problems, they were all found in in-house applications
>>
>> Two (minor) functionality additions have been implemented: none of them
>> affects physics results
>>
>> Functionality additions:
>>
>> - Setting WHAT(4)=1. in the START card allows to trigger a dump core
>> everytime the built-in abort routine, FLABRT, is called. This can be
>> useful for debugging unwanted situations, which when caught runtime
>> by FLUKA trigger an automatic abort of the run
>>
>> - The search path for OPENing auxiliary files (both through the OPEN
>> card, or using the OAUXFI auxiliary routine) has been protected
>> against user path including directories named "fluka_..." which were
>> erroneously interpreted as the temporary directory created runtime
>> by the code
>>
>> License change:
>>
>> - This release, as well as future releases, is under a revised
>> License. There is no practical change for users, however please
>> take the time to read it. A "plain word" explaination of what some
>> points of the License mean (those that in the past resulted in
>> possible misunderstandings) will be shortly posted on the web site
>>
>> The development team would like to remark that this patch release is
>> the final one related to fluka2008 (barring unexpected catastrophic
>> bugs). The release of fluka2010 is coming soon, and it will contain
>> many significant improvements and additions, both from the physics
>> and usability point of view.
>> A pre-release of Fluka2010 has been already distributed to those
>> attending the 1st Fluka Advanced Course, Ericeira October 4-8 2010,
>> and it will be distributed as well to those attending the FLUKA
>> tutorial at the upcoming SNA+MC2010 Conference in Tokyo.
>>
>> Finally a recommendation: if you experience a problem (eg a crash),
>> please send to fluka-discuss the minimally required files ONLY! That
>> is, the input file, the last random number just before the crash, and
>> in case possible user routines. There is no need to send plenty of
>> output and error files, or even worse, whole sequences of runs, ending
>> up saturating the mailboxes of the whole list with unnecessary large
>> messages. If you need advice about some error messages, or output
>> parts, please extract the relevant bits and send them only.
>>
>>
>> The FLUKA development team
>>
>>
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> | Alfredo Ferrari || Tel.: +41.22.76.76119 |
>> | CERN-EN/STI || Fax.: +41.22.76.69474 |
>> | 1211 Geneva 23 || e-mail: Alfredo.Ferrari_at_cern.ch |
>> | Switzerland || |
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>

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