v1.3.2 Release

Final update (except if more dependendencies-induced security issues appear)

What's Changed

• Cleanup of fastiron-stats
• Surface-level code cleanup of fastiron
• fix potential crash when using hwloc to bind threads on an unsupported architecture
• fix various warnings & security issues
• Version bump & dependencies upgrade

Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.3.2

v1.3.1 release - Chainmail Edition

What's Changed

Main program changes:

• Rayon threads are now bound to physical cores. This yields anywhere between 0%-15% performances increase depending on the number of threads
• Fixed performance issue of the initialization code.

Stats tool changes:

• The tool has been fully reworked to be simpler to use & fit the data gathered by the scripts. See PR #83 for more information.

Misc:

• Bumped all dependencies' version to latest available.

Full Changelog: v1.3...v1.3.1

v1.3 release - Woven Edition

What's Changed

Main changes:

• Fastiron now supports parallel execution. This is achieved by using the rayon crate to create chunks and iterate on particles in parallel. The execution mode is specified through the CLI.
• Main structures have been updated to be usable in a parallel context. This includes (but is not limited to):
  • Introducing atomics for cross-section lazy computations and scalar flux recording.
  • Simplified tallies for easy replication of balance and lighter structure.
  • Custom particle collection type & iterator type for parallel traits re-implem.
• MonteCarloUnit now handles a single domain each. This change is associated with the removal of all nested vectors in the code.

Misc:

• f32 execution can be specified at compile-time using the single-precision feature
• Added performance recording scripts
• Cleared up the mct module
• Cleaner reaction sampling
• Added particle sorting before tracking phase

Full Changelog: v1.2...v1.3

v1.2 release - RuSeq Edition

What's Changed

Main Program Changes:

• Breakup of the MonteCarlo super structure into a read-only one (MonteCarloData) and
  functional units (MonteCarloUnit) to simplify code & prepare for parallelization. This
  allowed for lighter borrows.
• Deletion of the MCBaseParticle type.
• Constants are now defined through functions for cleaner type conversion.
• Rewrite of the main loop and update to timers. Details about the changes are available in
  the profiling data.
• Many functions have been redesigned to be a method of MCParticle.

Repository Structure Changes:

• Repository has been reorganized with workspace in order to merge the external tool
  used for profiling.
• Merge of the external tool, fastiron-stats. Documentation about its usage & inner working
  is available in its member folder as READMEs or as Rust Doc along with the main program's
  documentation.

Miscellaneous:

• Update to existing documentation & tool documentation.
• New shell scripts for profiling.
• New gnuplot scripts complementary to fastiron-stats.
• Update of all the profiling data to make use of more consistent CPU execution policies.

Full Changelog: v1.1...v1.2

v1.1 release - Rustified Edition

• Introduced a new structure to store particles and make use of Rust's iterators.
• Added full support for f32 execution
• Removed dead code coming from the original program & from the replacement of some data structures

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v1.1

v1.0 release - Naive Port

Naive port of the Quicksilver proxy application in the Rust language.