From farhi at ill.fr  Wed Jul  6 21:30:39 2011
From: farhi at ill.fr (Emmanuel FARHI)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 21:30:39 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [mcstas-users] McStas book chapter about virtual experiments
Message-ID: <bce44a67f72f4f4ca39a44cadf26b71a.squirrel@195.83.126.17>


Dear colleagues,

I have just published a book chapter which demonstrates how to use McStas
with simple examples, in order to study complex features. Most common
neutron optics and sample/environment are considered. Examples are all
listed as a tutorial.

This is a good way to learn how to use McStas, or go further with more
advanced stuf.

"Virtual experiments in a nutshell: Simulating neutron scattering from
materials within instruments with McStas",
E. Farhi and P. Willendrup, Collection SFN 12 (2011) 303-339

Free access at
<http://www.neutron-sciences.org/index.php?option=com_toc&url=/articles/sfn/abs/2011/01/contents/contents.html>
DOI: 10.1051/sfn/201112015

Emmanuel.

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FARHI Emmanuel <farhi at ill.fr>
Groupe DS/CS, ILL4/156, Tel 04 76 20 71 35
ILL, Grenoble



From PKWI at risoe.dtu.dk  Sun Jul 24 10:32:05 2011
From: PKWI at risoe.dtu.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Willendrup=2C_Peter_Kj=E6r?=)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:32:05 +0200
Subject: [mcstas-users] McStas 1.12c on Mac OS X Lion - hold your horses!
Message-ID: <C3FEA9A4-C950-4E83-A17D-4085CC69FDFC@risoe.dtu.dk>

Dear McStas and Mac OS users,


The newly released Mac OS X 10.7 Lion includes a lot of nice
upgrades from Apple - including some that break the tool-layer and
mpi support for McStas:

* mpi compile fails (The system-provided mpi is not detected by the McStas configure script)

* mcgui does not start (mcgui requires perl::Tk, and the version we ship with McStas 1.12c explicitly requires perl 5.8, which has been removed from Lion)

* mcplot does not plot with PGPLOT backend (For plotting, we rely on the SciKarl port of pgplot, perl::PDL and perl::PGPLOT. The SciKarl perl modules are built for perl 5.8 which has been removed from Lion)

In conclusion: If you want to keep a functional McStas install, please do not upgrade to Lion yet!


Best regards,

Peter Willendrup

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From PKWI at risoe.dtu.dk  Tue Jul 26 20:03:37 2011
From: PKWI at risoe.dtu.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Willendrup=2C_Peter_Kj=E6r?=)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:03:37 +0200
Subject: [mcstas-users] McStas 1.12c on Mac OS X Lion - hold your horses!
In-Reply-To: <C3FEA9A4-C950-4E83-A17D-4085CC69FDFC@risoe.dtu.dk>
References: <C3FEA9A4-C950-4E83-A17D-4085CC69FDFC@risoe.dtu.dk>
Message-ID: <E17AD2E0-F429-4962-AF98-44A1BB8AA434@risoe.dtu.dk>

Hello again,


I have created a new dmg for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion users, available at http://www.mcstas.org/download .

Be aware that you will have to compile openmpi yourself - or get it from somewhere else if you want to do multi-core simulations.

The new dmg also works for Snow Leopard - but you will have to reinstall all support packages if McStas was previously installed on the machine.


Best regards,

Peter Willendrup

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Peter Willendrup - Development engineer

Ris? DTU, Materials Research Division
Frederiksborgvej 399
DK-4000 Roskilde

Tlf.: (+45) 4677 5862
Mobil.: (+45) 2125 4612
Fax.: (+45) 4766 5758
Email: pkwi at risoe.dtu.dk
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On 24/07/2011, at 10.32, Willendrup, Peter Kj?r wrote:

> Dear McStas and Mac OS users,
> 
> 
> The newly released Mac OS X 10.7 Lion includes a lot of nice
> upgrades from Apple - including some that break the tool-layer and
> mpi support for McStas:
> 
> * mpi compile fails (The system-provided mpi is not detected by the McStas configure script)
> 
> * mcgui does not start (mcgui requires perl::Tk, and the version we ship with McStas 1.12c explicitly requires perl 5.8, which has been removed from Lion)
> 
> * mcplot does not plot with PGPLOT backend (For plotting, we rely on the SciKarl port of pgplot, perl::PDL and perl::PGPLOT. The SciKarl perl modules are built for perl 5.8 which has been removed from Lion)
> 
> In conclusion: If you want to keep a functional McStas install, please do not upgrade to Lion yet!
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Peter Willendrup
> 
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Peter Willendrup - Development engineer
> 
> Ris? DTU, Materials Research Division
> Frederiksborgvej 399
> DK-4000 Roskilde
> 
> Tlf.: (+45) 4677 5862
> Mobil.: (+45) 2125 4612
> Fax.: (+45) 4766 5758
> Email: pkwi at risoe.dtu.dk
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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