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December 19th, 2019: Seasons greetings, McStas news and call for contributionsDear all, This is to inform you all that the next stable McStas release 2.6 will become available during January 2020. I would also like to mention that we aim to make an official beta-release of our experimental McStas 3.0 available soon. This will happen following v. 2.6 within the first months of the new year, and be the first release to support running simulations on Nvidia GPU processors. Probably not all of our components will be ported at release, but most of what you do on CPUs today will be available! A short set of slides is available here outlining what is coming, when we started and how we achieved it... :-) Seasons greetings on behalf of the McStas team,
October 11th, 2019: Respin of McStas v2.5 to support macOS Mojave and CatalinaRecently one of our users reported issues on macOS Mojave with mcgui not picking up the right location of the mcstas library, please see the related GitHub issue for more information.Since the problem seems to occur consistently on updated Mojave (10.14) and Catalina (10.15) systems, a patched version of our macOS App bundle has been uploaded to our download page. Please let us know via the mailinglist or by creating a GitHub ticket if any further issues arise. June 16th, 2019: Statistics on the history of McStas releasesDid you ever wonder how the number of included components and instrument files in McStas changed over time? - And did you know that we now include 215 components and 192 example instruments? The figure below is generated from release-metadata extracted from http://download.mcstas.org, where all McStas releases can be found. June 7th, 2019: math.h issues on macOS 10.14.5 MojaveWith the latest update to Xcode command line tools on macOS, there is no longer an option to install the system header files to the legacy location of /usr/include . This unfortunately means that the miniconda-based gcc that we distribute with McStas (and set up by default) is no longer able to locate the math.h header file and compilations fail with mccode-r.h:39:18: fatal error: math.h: No such file or directory Our suggested workaround is to configure your McStas installation to instead use the system-provided clang compiler, see our GitHub issue #799 for a detailed description of how to do this. April 2nd, 2019: Announcing ISTSI2019The workshop Innovative Simulation Tools, Shielding and Instrumentation 2019 (ISTSI2019) will be held at Holiday Inn St. Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday June 29th 2019, as a satellite of the ECNS conference. The workshop brings together the partners of the SINE2020 WP8 that have contributed work in the areas of
For more information and registration, please consult the website at http://ecns2019.essworkshop.org This workshop / project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654000. March 25th-20th, 2019: McStas School at CSNSDear all, In collaboration with the China Spallation Neutron Source, the McStas team participated in the first ever McStas school in China in the last week of March.
All lecture material and exercises are available through our new McStas school site, hosted on GitHub Further, our hosts suggested we recorded videos of the lectures which are slowly becoming available on the new McStas youtube channel. January 18th, 2019: McStas survey resultsDear all, The results from the 2018 McStas user survey are now online at http://survey2018.mcstas.org. The main conclusions are that
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