
Release Note for Bridge++ ver.1.1.x                       22 July 2013
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     This package is free software and you can use this under:
     "the GNU General Public License" published by the FSF.
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Overview:
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Bridge++ is a code set for lattice QCD simulations on Linux/Unix
workstations and supercomputers (SR16000:Hitachi, BG/Q:IBM,
FX10:Fujitsu, SX9:NEC, etc.) using "C/C++" standard language
with MPI library for communication.


Software Compatibility:
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This code set follows the standard specification of C++ with our best
effort.
The code has been tested under Linux/Unix (Red Hat ELS, SuSE Linux,
AIX 5.7, SUPER-UX, XTCOS) using release 4.2 of the GCC toolkit,
intel XE 11, IBM XL-C and so on.
GCC 3.x and earlier are no longer supported.
The code set also seems to work under Mac OS X 10.6.8 ("Snow Leopard")
and 10.7.3 ("Lion") on recent 64-bit Intel-based Macs.
Under the these platforms, several implementations of MPI works.


Installation:
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Editing Makefile appropriately to your environment, execute
"make" (or in some cases, "gmake").
See also the file "INSTALL".


Using the code set:
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After building the executable, in interactive environment, executing
"make run", or "cd build" and "./bridge.elf" will run the program
using a sample files.
The details are explained in the "first-step-guide" (sorry, only in
Japanese at present), which is available at the same website as this code.


Getting Help:
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Please visit our website, http://bridge.kek.jp/Lattice-code/
for contact information.
See also first_step_guide.pdf and the doxygen document.

Bug reports are especially welcome.
Please send to the contact address in the above website.


Acknowledging Bridge++:
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If you use this software in your research that is published,
please cite:
Bridge++ project team, http://bridge.kek.jp/Lattice-code/.


Project Member:
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Shinya    Aoki      (Kyoto Univ.)
Tatsumi   Aoyama    (Nagoya Univ.)
Kazuyuki  Kanaya    (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Hideo     Matsufuru (KEK)
Shinji    Motoki    (Aizu Univ.)
Yusuke    Namekawa  (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Hidekatsu Nemura    (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Yusuke    Taniguchi (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Satoru    Ueda      (KEK)
Naoya     Ukita     (Univ. of Tsukuba)

Contributed by:
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Takumi    Doi       (REKEN)
Guido     Cossu     (KEK)
Shoji     Hashimoto (KEK)
Noriyoshi Ishii     (Univ. of Tsukuba, AICS)
Ken-ichi  Ishikawa  (Hiroshima Univ.)
Takashi   Kaneko    (KEK)
Yoshinobu Kuramashi (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Jun-Ichi  Noaki     (KEK)
Kenji     Ogawa     (National Chiao Tung University)
Hana      Saito     (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Kenji     Sasaki    (Univ. of Tsukuba)
Tomoteru  Yoshie    (Univ. of Tsukuba)


This work is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
on Innovative Areas (of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology) (Nos.20105001, 20105005), and
HPCI Strategic Program Field 5 ("The origin of matter and the universe").


[24 July 2012, Bridge++ Project team]
For version 1.0.x, written by smotoki<smotoki[at]post.kek.jp>

[22 July 2013, Bridge++ Project team]
For version 1.1.x, modified by Satoru Ueda<sueda[at]post.kek.jp>
