Dear Meep users ! As you know, previously (December 2008) we anounced a python binding for libmeep. Our ongoing efforts in this direction passed another milestone and we are gladly presenting greatly improved python binding for libmeep. Higlights for current release are: - Support for MPI (currently compiled with OpenMPI) - Tests, included in Meep source, are rewritten in python. So, all libmeep functionality, necessary to pass those tests (excluding integrate.cpp and h5test.cpp) is available now. The major limitation of this release is that field_functions are still not implemented. IMHO, given the python flexibility, it is more viable to implement such functionality in pure python.
Additionaly, our repository for 32-bit Ubuntu 8.10 contains h5utils-1.11.1 (no more that annoying bug with "colormap not found"), libctl 3.0.3, openmpi-1.2.8 and swig 1.3.36. To use these packages, add following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://nanolab.phys.msu.ru/files/python-meep/debs ./ then use 'apt-get update' and corresponding 'apt-get install' commands. Amd64 binaries and generic debian-style repository are next goals. More files: http://nanolab.phys.msu.ru/files/python-meep/tests.tar.gz - tests in python, can be used as a reference to write your own scripts http://nanolab.phys.msu.ru/files/python-meep/swig.tar.gz http://nanolab.phys.msu.ru/files/python-meep/swig-mpi.tar.gz - source files for swif, if you want to compile binding on your own http://nanolab.phys.msu.ru/files/python-meep/python-meep-0.1.linux-i686.tar.gz http://nanolab.phys.msu.ru/files/python-meep/python-meep-mpi-0.1.linux-i686.tar.gz - binary binding files (system-wide paths). Untar files without paths into current directory, if you don't want to make them system-wide available (they will be available only for scripts in current directory). All techical questions about web-site and availability of files should be adressed to tsema at nanolab dot ru. BTW, previous release moved to http://nanolab.phys.msu.ru/files/python-meep.old/ With best regards, Nizamov Shawkat _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
