[Horace-announce] Horace paper & new features

[russell.ewings at stfc.ac.uk]

Dear Horace users,


We are pleased to inform you that we have written a paper giving details of the Horace software, as well as the underlying theory. A pre-print version may be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05895.  We will announce in due course when this has made it through the peer review process and been published by a journal. But in the meantime please do cite this pre-print if you have made use of Horace for your research.



We also wish to draw your attention to several new features in Horace that we hope you will find useful:



-          "Spaghetti plot" (http://horace.isis.rl.ac.uk/Plotting#spaghetti_plot) which provides a way of stitching together several Q-E slices along different high symmetry directions. An example of this is shown in figure 5 of the paper above.



-          Run inspector (http://horace.isis.rl.ac.uk/Run_inspector) which enables you to decompose a 2d slice or 1d cut into the contributions from individual runs. This is especially useful for identification of spurions.



-          High performance computing options (http://horace.isis.rl.ac.uk/Download_and_setup#Enabling_multi-sessions_processing). This comprises a series of modifications to some of the low level routines, especially for the generation of large sqw files, that allow you to take advantage of a high performance machine (such as the ISIScompute cluster) if you have access to one. These modifications can afford up to an order of magnitude speed-up of file creation, which removes one of the major bottlenecks in the Horace workflow.



If your version of Horace is more than a few months old we encourage you to update it to the latest version from the Horace website, which includes all of the above as well as some other smaller improvements.



With best regards,

The Horace development team




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