Optimizing McStas

[Kristian Nielsen]

Hi Emmanuel,

Ok, I am now safely back from Oxford, so here is my latest development
version of McStas. It includes

 - The resolution calculation stuff, with some documentation.
 - The adaptive importance sampling source Source_adapt.comp. There is a
little bit of documentation in comments in the file and in postscript.

You will need to install a new version of mcstas, called "mcstas-1.15
ALPHA". Since this is not of release-quality (yet!), I would like to
know if you pass it on to others.

The files you need are the new version itself:

    http://neutron.risoe.dk/mcstas/support/farhi/mcstas-1.15A.tar.gz

The (sparse) documentation for the adaptive importance sampling (also
see comments in Source_adapt.comp):

    http://neutron.risoe.dk/mcstas/support/farhi/adaptive.ps

The documentation for the resolution calculation:

    http://neutron.risoe.dk/mcstas/support/farhi/resolution.ps

I hope you can sort it out; ask me about anything that is unclear to
you. I am very much looking forward to hearing more about your own
results with resolution and optimization in McStas!

 - Kristian.