Allpix Squared

We have just released another patch release for the 1.4 series of Allpix² , version 1.4.3. It contains 44 commits and fixes a few issues found over the course of the past months. The release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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We have just released another patch release for the 1.4 series of Allpix² , version 1.4.2. It contains 28 commits and smooths out some rough edges in the software and its Docker images. The release is available as Docker image, CVMFS installation, binary tarball and source code from the repository.

The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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Back from the summer months with a fresh patch release for the 1.4 series of Allpix² , version 1.4.1. With “just” 20 commits it isn’t huge but contains an important fix for the ROOTObjectWriter, see below. The release is available from the repository.

The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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We are happy to announce a new stable feature release Allpix² version 1.4 with a total of 570 commits added to the repository by twelve contributors since version 1.3. The release tarball can be downloaded from the repository:

https://gitlab.cern.ch/allpix-squared/allpix-squared/tags/v1.4

The new version is also available as docker image in the project’s docker registry, as read-to-use version on CVMFS and as binary release from the website.

This release has seen some major improvements in different areas, an overview of the most important changes and new features is provided in the following:

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This is yet another patch release for the 1.3 series of Allpix² , version 1.3.4. It contains 18 additional commits over 1.3.3 with a few fixes and improvements. The release is available from the repository as of now.

The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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Here is another patch release for the 1.3 release series of Allpix² , version 1.3.3. It contains 29 additional commits over 1.3.2 with a few fixes and improvements. The release is available from the repository as of now.

The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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Following last year’s successful participation in Google’s Summer of Code program, we have again proposed a project for students to work on through the High-Energy Physics Software Foundation (HSF). The organization has been accepted by Google, and the project description is now online available: Implement Event based Seeding and Multi-Threading The title is similar to the project of last year since we hope to address some of the issues discovered during the previous project. [Read More]

This is another patch release for the 1.3 release series of Allpix² , version 1.3.2. It contains just six additional commits over 1.3.1, mostly because the focus of the past months was on larger features to be merged for version v1.4. As usual, the release is available from the repository as of now.

The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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Just three weeks after our first User Workshop and one week before the holidays, we would like to announce the first patch release for the 1.3 release series of **Allpix² **, version 1.3.1. The 40 commits contained in this release fix some newly discovered bugs as well as a few long-standing issues. As usual, the release is available from the repository as of now.

The following issues have been resolved and improvements have been made:

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This week, on the 26th and 27th of November, the 1st Allpix Squared User Workshop was held at CERN. The workshop was well-attended, with 35 registrants, and was split between an introductory session containing an installation guide and hands-on step-by-step tutorial, and more detailed talks on advanced features along with current user examples. There were a number of useful discussions and feedback from the participants, in particular underlining the strong interest in new features such as support for high-Z materials, calculations of induced signals and the ability to customise charge carrier mobilities and trapping. [Read More]