GRAPE-7 software pakcage

This package includes libraries and documents for GRAPE-7.
The package includes:

    ./00readme    --  a brief instruction of the package.
    ./00readme-j  --  00readme in Japanese.
    ./doc/        --  user's guide, reference manual, and other documents.
    ./scripts/    --  install & backup scripts.
    ./include     --  header files.
    ./lib         --  libraries.
    ./driver/     --  device driver.
    ./g5util/     --  G5PIPE user library and utility. source codes and pFPGA
                      configuration files (.ttf) are included.
    ./hibutil/    --  Host Interface Bridge (HIB) user library and utility.
                      source codes are included.
    ./direct      --  a sample code (direct-summation algorithm in C).
    ./directf77   --  a sample code (direct-summation algorithm in Fortran77).
    ./vtc         --  a sample code (Barnes-Hut tree algorithm in C).

In order to install the package, type
    ./scripts/install.csh
and follow its instructions.

For complete installation procedure, see GRAPE-7 Installation Guide
(g7pkg/doc/g7install.pdf).  For full description of G5PIPE (a GRAPE-5
compatible logic for GRAPE-7), see G5PIPE User's Guide
(g7pkg/doc/g5user.pdf).

The package is tested on the following platforms:

    Fedora Core 4, 5
    WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 4
    Red Hat Enterprise Lunux 4, 5

It is expected to work also on CentOS 4 and 5. It is known that the
current version does not work on Fedora Core 6, though it will be
supported soon.


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version       date        author               note
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2.2.1         24-Apr-2009 AK                   bug fix for model800 G5nbPIPE.
                                               functionality check script updated.

2.2           04-Apr-2009 AK                   support for model800 G5nbPIPE

2.1           13-Feb-2008 AK                   support for model800
                                               added G5nbPIPE, a backend logic that has
                                               functions for neighbor-particle search.

2.0.2         19-Oct-2007 AK                   some minor changes:
                                               - check script refined. 
                                               - install script refined. 
                          Peter Englmaier      - hibtest.c compilation error on CentOS5 fixed.
                                               - verbose mode (-v switch) added to lsgrape.
                                               

2.0           22-May-2007 AK                   cut-off function for P3M method added.
                                               model600/300 perfomance improved
                                               (# of pipelines increased by 4/chip. memory doubled).
                                               support for RHEL5 (kernel 2.6.18).
                                               PCIe driver & library added for future use.

1.3           12-Mar-2007 AK                   force rounding correction bug fixed.
                                               several refinements (eg. environment variable
                                               G5_SENDFUNC to set data transfer mode added,
                                               G5 user's guide refined, performance of
                                               g5_set_rangeMC tuned).

1.2           19-Feb-2007 AK                   mass & spacial scaling bugs in both libg75.a & G5PIPE
                                               logic fixed.

1.0           13-Feb-2007 AK, TF               several additional features (eg. Japanese documents,
                                               environment variable G5_WARNLEVEL for warning level
                                               control) added.

0.4.1         10-Feb-2007 AK                   a bug in hibutil/hibutil.c (hib_closeMC memory leak)
                                               fixed.

0.4           08-Feb-2007 AK, T. Fukushige     functionality check script updated.

0.3.2         03-Feb-2007 AK                   libraries are now "thread safe".
                                               fixed several bugs in g5util/g5util.c.
                                               install script updated.
                                               documents restructured.


0.3.1         24-Jan-2007 AK                   a bug in hibutil/hibutil.c (PIOW to backend) fixed.
                                               a bug in g5util/g5util.c (multi card alloc) fixed.
                                               g5util/config/config.c updated.
                                               minor changes in documents.

0.3           15-Jan-2007 AK                   restructure of the package.
                                               several utilities & fortran interface added.
                                               documents updated.

0.2           05-Jan-2007 AK                   installation scripts & documents added.

0.0           04-Nov-2006 A. Kawai             created.
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Contact address for questions and bug reports:
K&F Computing Research (support@kfcr.jp)