[Gate-users] Next Gate version (V8.0)

[David Sarrut]

Hi Alex,

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Alex Vergara Gil <alexvergaragil at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My 2c
>
> I think a major version is too ambicious at the moment, it would be
> better 7.3, why?
>

several "large" features will be added in this release (optical, dicom
support etc), so it has been decided to go for 8.0. But this is more a
matter of "taste" ;)


>
>   1. There is no full support for C++11 yet, actually full C++11 as
> mandatory compiler shall be a milestone for gate 8.0
>

sure ! as it is mandatory for G4, we will probably make it mandatory for
Gate. Tests are ongoing for Gate with G4 10.3 (9/12/2016). If some have
experiences on that, fill free to contribute to the discussion here
<https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate/issues/90>.


>   2. There is no support at all for g4mtrunmanager, which would allow
> running gate in multithreading environments, such as personal
> computers for testing and xeon phi coprocessors for running
>

This is not planned. As already discussed, it requires a lot of effort and
for the moment, none is ready to spend time (money) on that topic. Again,
if someone is interested to do so, we will support and help, but in the
limit of skills and availability.


>   3. AFAIK, it is not yet finished the full gpu support, maybe i am
> wrong, but i cant run all examples in gpu mode, some of them require
> large amount of data in memory because the lack of a parallel world,
> Gate is still defaulting to a single world. Point 2 would in principle
> fix this too.
>

This is an important point. There are some discussions pending on this gpu
aspect, but no decision (remove ? continue ?) has been taken yet.


>
> What are your thougths??
>

as always: thanks for your implication, it is always appreciated !

David


>
> Alex
>
> 2017-01-04 9:17 GMT-05:00, Albertine DUBOIS <adubois at imnc.in2p3.fr>:
> > Dear Gate-users,
> >
> > We are currently working on the preparation of the next Gate version
> (V8.0).
> >
> > It will be based on the current "develop" branch of our Git repository
> > (https://github.com/OpenGATE/Gate) and should be released by the first
> week
> > of March 2017 (deadline is set to 1st March 2017).
> >
> > In the meanwhile, we invite you to propose changes or bug fixes by
> creating
> > GitHub pull requests.
> > Please note that detailed instructions for contributing to the Gate
> source
> > code using GitHub can be found on the Gate website
> > (http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/sites/default/files/
> WorshopGATEMIC2016-AD.pdf).
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Albertine, on behalf of the OpenGATE collaboration
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