Change Log

MCX 0.4.9 (Black Hole) development branch, FangQ <fangq nmr mgh harvard edu>

 2010-08-01 update documentation and release v0.5 beta (aka 0.4.9)
 2010-08-01 fix a critical bug for pre-Fermi cards,validated MCX on CC11,13,20
 2010-07-31 enable -n for photon number, disable -m, report simulation speed
 2010-07-30 fix a bug when reading medium index with detector mask
 2010-07-29 use atomic with shared memory cache to improve accuracy near the source
 2010-07-28 add example for validation of MCX in heterogeneous media
 2010-07-28 use RNG for transmission/reflection test
 2010-07-28 use column major as the internal array format
 2010-07-27 support saving detected photons, but got 25% slower
 2010-07-15 users can use -u to specify voxel edge length in mm
 2010-07-12 fix a bug for indexing error in large volumes
 2010-07-09 fix a bug when appending data for multiple time gate groups
 2010-06-26 use constant memory to pass kernel param, more error info
 2010-06-26 use meaningful struct in the kernel to improve readability
 2010-05-14 allow to select which GPU to use with the -G option
 2010-02-04 fix a minor NaN bug detected by GPU Ocelot
 2010-01-26 add GPU Ocelot makefile for multicore CPU

MCX 0.2 (Aurora), FangQ <fangq nmr mgh harvard edu>

 2009-12-19 polish documentation, add svn keywords and tagged 0.2 final
 2009-12-10 MCX Studio GUI is tested on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
 2009-12-03 add README.txt file for each example folder
 2009-12-02 complete "bubble" mode to reduce impact from non-atomic write
 2009-10-24 use cuda event timer, use VC compiler for Windows
 2009-10-21 paper published online, added windows support
 2009-10-20 set license to GPLv3, first public release (v0.2 beta)
 2009-10-19 fixed double-precision warning for CUDA 2.3
 2009-10-06 more GUI developments
 2009-09-25 fixed memory leakage, supported verbose options
 2009-09-24 major code clean-up, added GPUDEBUG macro
 2009-07-31 tested on GTX295 with CUDA 2.3
 2009-07-15 used atomicFloatAdd for atomic memory write
 2009-07-13 fixed half-grid shift bug in the validation script
 2009-07-08 reflection for a maximum of 3 interfaces
 2009-06-26 tested non-atomic write racing condition
 2009-05-19 added mcx studio: a GUI for mcx
 2009-05-07 query GPU info
 2009-05-05 added options to print to a log file
 2009-04-30 code clean up and paper submission, tag 0.1.9 (Aurora alpha)
 2009-04-26 new and more robust boundary reflection code
 2009-04-24 build-in fluence normalization (unitary solution)
 2009-04-20 added examples and validation scripts, supported respins
 2009-04-07 energy conservation for normalization of the solution
 2009-04-03 time gating support
 2009-04-01 split the main function to units, add utils. and config file
 2009-03-02 added logistic-map based random number generator
 2009-02-27 early support of boundary reflection
 2009-02-24 MT rand now working fine
 2009-02-21 added MT random number generator initial version
 2009-02-20 translated to Brook+
 2009-02-15 translated to CUDA
 2009-02-14 initial version written in BrookGPU