Recent Contributors:
- John Apostolakis (CERN)
- Somnath Banerjee (GSoC 2015 contributor)
- Jason Suagee (GSoC 2015 contributor)
- Sandro Wenzel (CERN)
- Quichen Xie (GSoC 2014 contributor)
Summary of Goals (GSoC 2015):
- Add integration Runge-Kutta methods (integrators), with additional capabilities including FSAL (first same as last) and interpolants (method to evalue the integrand at an intermediate point);
- Implement modern integrators with higher efficiency (DormandPrince 5/4, Bogacki Shampine 5/4, Verner);
- Introduce new general Nystrom RK methods - ie ones for ODEs with the first derivative in the right hand side;
- Enable vectorisation for one or multiple tracks.
An extended description of the 2015 GSoC project goals can be found at the Wiki page
Started from two sources:
- the Geant4 magneticfield category / directory
- the refinements / improvements created by Quichen Xie (GSoC 2014), supervised by Sandro Wenzel, aided by John Apostolakis
- /test directory
- create a functionality report
- /benchmark directory
- read the benchmark report