Cyclus 1.3 Release Notes¶
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The Cyclus core team is excited to announce the latest stable version of the cyclus ecosystem!
Major features¶
Cyclus¶
~3x speedups for recipe-based simulations
Basic inventory policies added
Support for recursive containers in archetypes
Many new recursive containers added to sqlite backend
Regression tests run on macs!
A MockSim interface for full simulation testing without input files
Added customizeable TimeSeries output for recording archetype-specific time series
Added json-to-xml conversion capability
Added new ResMap container
- Decay added (via Pyne)! An input file flag can be set to
never: never decay
manual: archetypes must call the decay API manually
lazy: materials are decayed as needed when their Material::comp function is called
Cycamore¶
- New facility archetypes added
Reactor
FuelFab
Separations
Enrichment
- Other facility archetypes removed
BatchReactor
EnrichmentFacility
- Some experimental archetype APIs updated
GrowthRegion
Much better end-of-life fuel handling in reactors
Regression tests run on macs!
Cymetric¶
First release for a new analysis and visualization tool for Cyclus simulation output
Command line tool and Python interface
- Calculates metrics of user interest from a Cyclus database
Writes metrics back to database
- Simple for users to extend the suite of metrics
Designed so calculations can be based on dependencies (other metrics or root metrics)
Uses pandas data types
Uses PyNE for nuclear data
Visualization available from the command line via matplotlib
Summary¶
Since v1.2.0,
Cyclus: 409 commits resulting in 113 files changed, 8466 insertions(+), 1760 deletions(-)
Cycamore: 353 commits resulting in 79 files changed, 7466 insertions(+), 6830 deletions(-)
Cymetric: 366 commits resulting in 49 files changed, 5978 insertions(+), 266 deletions(-)
Contributors¶
The following people contributed to this release of Cyclus. A “*” by their name indicates a first time contributor. Names follow alphabetically,
Robert Carlsen
Denia Djokic*
Robert Flanagan
Matthew Gidden
Katy Huff
Meghan McGarry*
Arrielle Opotowsky
Olzhas Rakhimov
Anthony Scopatz
Paul Wilson
John Xia