Announcements

 

  • August 3rd-7th, 2009: Third annual Continuity training course at the 2009 NBCR Summer Institute

  • July 29th, 2009: Over 700 Continuity users have registered. Have you registered yet?

  • August 3rd, 2009: Continuity 6.3b revision

    5786 released.

  • August 11th-13th, 2008: Students from around the world participated in Continuity training at the 2008 NBCR Summer Institute

  • May 1st, 2007: Continuity 6.3 revision 3127 was released. Highlights include:

    • Massive memory leak fixed in electrophysiology
    • Fixed bug in material law with transversely isotropic exponential function of Lagrangian strains
    • Element labels can now use regular expressions in the list volume form.

  • April 26th, 2007: Continuity 6.3 revision 3099 was released. Highlights include:

    • Cont6 files (pickle files) are now compressed and decompressed when saved and loaded.
    • All data sent to and from remote server is compressed resulting in a 3X speed up in client/server communications.
    • Added 40 new unit test cases.
    • Fixed old event/threading leak where a new event is propagated during the creating of each new quad surface. This fixes limitation where only 30 surfaces could be rendered.
    • Added the ability to have up to 10 user defined commands in the options menu.
    • Systematically tested all example scripts in example directories for reliability.

    • Added ability to render contours (isolines) to OpenMesh quads by implementing a marching squares algorithm.

    • Many improvements for the electrophysiology equation editor.
    • Optionally automatically update the biomechanics initial conditions during nodal refinement.
    • Force boundary conditions are working again, and list boundary conditions properly lists them (as natural bcs)
    • Solving algorithm updated to allow use of an ODE-based active stress model.
    • Modified the refine form to allow user to input customize xi’s during refinement.

  • February 23th, 2007: Continuity 6.3 revision 2880 was released. Highlights include:

    • Critical bug fix with building boundary conditions from scratch
    • Various bug fixes and code optimizations

  • February 14th, 2007: Mark your calendar: Continuity Summer School scheduled to July 30th to August 3rd, 2007

  • February 13th, 2007: Continuity 6.3 revision 2853 was released. Highlights include:

    • Critical bug fixes with Mac/Linux builds
    • Fixed problems with volume calculations.
    • Equations editor improvements
    • Improved list nodal solutions and list boundary conditions
    • Added more useful error messages with threads/no threads client/server conflicts.

  • 2007 RAC PowerPoint, LQT3 movie

  • 2006 Continuity Report

  • January 26th, 2007: Continuity 6.3 revision 2755 was released. Highlights include:

    • Enigmatic “pickle” files have been replaced with more intuitively named “cont6” files. All problem data will now be saved and read using this convension.
    • Major bug fix for selective refinement for 2D (and 1D) problems.
    • Updated comments for all the variables for Beeler Reuter model.
    • Added Fitz-Hugh Nagumo electrophysiology model.
    • Refactored parallel electrophysiology to use same mpi system as biomechanics. This allows “cell models” definited using the equations editor to automatically work in parallel.

  • January 8th, 2007: Continuity 6.3 revision 2684 was released. Highlights include:

    • Parallelized biomechanics nonlinear solver to work on a cluster. Some problems show a 10X speed up when solved in parallel.
    • Implemented elastica materials for biomechanics
    • For Windows, continuity server capable of using a web service to dynamically electrophysiology cell model shared object. A Linux webserver is also in development.
    • Created a “batch” mode of Continuity accessible from the command line with the –batch [script] option.
    • Fixed problems with loading pickle files which make use of imaging module
    • Optimized serial and parallel biomechanics solver (for windows and linux) using a c extension for a small part of the global stiffness matrix assembly.

    • Fixed problems with using value exceptions in active and material forms if > 3 fiber angles are defined in the nodes form.

  • December 21st, 2006: Initial tests of parallel Biomechanics module results in ten-fold speed-up using MPI on 25 nodes of a Rocks Linux cluster

  • November 11th-17th, 2006: Fred Lionetti demos Continuity in the NBCR booth at Supercomputing 2006 in Tampa, FL.

  • October 31st, 2006: Continuity 6.3 revision 2486 was released.

  • October 4th, 2006: Continuity 6.3 revision 2414 was released. Highlights include:

    • The results of “List elements” can be saved
    • Biomechanics bug fixes

    • EquationsEditor can produce working Fortran code to dynamically create an ionic model

    • See release notes (deprecated) for details.

  • September 22th, 2006: Continuity 6.3 revision 2382 was released. Highlights include:

    • Critical bug fix for MacOS X
    • Fixed Windows installer
    • Detects and reports incorrect version of python (i.e. NOT 2.3) during startup.
    • Fixed fields averaging bug for rendering fields
    • Modified quads class (Element Surfaces) for greater flexibility in assigning colors. In particular, it is now possible to directly set the hsv value for any rendered surface.

    • See release notes (deprecated) for details.

  • September 12th, 2006: Continuity Developer Trac goes online

  • September 8th, 2006: New MoinMoin (deprecated) Wiki-based website launched

  • September 5th, 2006: Continuity 6.3 revision 2362 was released. Highlights include:

    • For windows version, no system32 libraries are overwritten
    • Introduction of “Equations Editor” found in Electrophysiology
    • Various bug fixes

    • See release notes (deprecated) for details.

  • August 11th, 2006: Continuity 6.3 revision 2308 was released. Highlights include:

    • Improved reset
    • Added “recent” to file menu that contains recently opened problem files
    • Improved plotting (Windows only)
    • “Send” performs a sanity check of the basis functions, nodes, and elements
    • Improved support for 1D/2D meshes including mesh refinement, and new examples
    • Improved fitting, including new examples
    • Introduction of Biotransport model and simple reaction diffusion problem
    • Massive changes to boundary conditions form and its underlying data structure (which also apply to fitting constraints form subclass)
    • Various other bug fixes

    • See release notes (deprecated) for details.

  • August 7th – 12th, 2006: NBCR Summer Institute was held at UCSD.