Hi everyone,

I know this is quick on the heels of the last update, but at the
moment things are happening quite quickly.  Here's the list of stuff
that you should take note of:

xsil2graphics output is now different:
  - xsil2graphics no longer produces temp1.dat, temp2.dat etc
  (i.e. temp[momentGroupNumber].dat) but now outputs
  [momentGroupNumber].dat which I thought was a lot more
  obvious and quite handy if you generate output from many different
  simulations from the one directory.

loadxsil.m updated:
  - there seemed to be a bug with loadxsil.m overwriting data when
  loading more than one moment group.  The variables now have the
  moment group number appended to them in the form
  _[momentGroupNumber].  I hope this suits everyone.  I've
  tested it with both ascii and binary data output and everything
  seems ok, but I NEED people to test this for me (and get back to me
  if there are problems!!).

configure further polished:
  - as per usual, I found some more issues with the configure script,
  but now it seems to be behaving itself.

web site updated a lot:
  - the web page www.xmds.org has had a fair few changes to it
  recently.  The current development build is available from the
  "downloads" page; the current xmds-1.2 manual is available from the
  "documentation" page, as is the current API documentation; there is
  now a "news" page; there is now a link to the project page as
  opposed to via the sourceforge link; the script repository has many
  scripts added to it (if you have ANY scripts lying around, PLEASE
  send them to me so that I can chuck them up on the web site, and if
  you would be so kind as to give me a brief description of what the
  script is meant to do that would be great as well).

mpi and wisdom bug fixed (hopefully):
  - there was a problem with running simulations with mpi and the way
  that I was finding the host name and the user's home directory.
  This has now been remedied by appending the mpi rank to the relevant
  filenames so that what is written, read and deleted is specific to a
  given mpi process.

call for papers!:
  - no, I'm not starting a conference, but I DO want references to
  publications (and cond-mat or quant-ph etc references if possible)
  that use xmds in generating data/results.  I currently have only
  been able to find ONE!!  So, again, PLEASE send any references you
  have to me (I'm just attention seeking really... ;-)  ).

I think that's it atm.  Happy coding.

Later

Paul