Acquiring GENESIS

We have made the current release of GENESIS (ver. 2.1, August 1997) available via FTP from genesis.bbb.caltech.edu (131.215.15.236). This version represents a major revision of GENESIS from version 1.4.2, and adds many new features and bug fixes to version 2.0.2. The distributed compressed tar file is about 4 MB in size. The current distribution includes full source code and documentation for both GENESIS and XODUS as well as fourteen tutorial simulations. Documentation for these tutorials is included along with online GENESIS help files, hypertext help, and postscript files for generating the newly revised printed manual.

This site also contains a much improved release of Parallel GENESIS (PGENESIS 2.1), designed for networks of workstations (NOW), symmetric multiprocessors (SMP) and massively parallel processors (MPP). This release, which replaces the experimental version which was previously available on this site, can be run on any platform which supports GENESIS 2.1 and the PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) software. PGENESIS 2.1 has been tested extensively on IRIX 5.3, Digital UNIX, Unicos/mk (Cray T3E). It has been run on SunOS, Solaris, Linux, HPUX and Intel Paragon. Further information about PGENESIS may be obtained from the file Readme.pgenesis at this site, and from the hypertext documentation in the PGENESIS distribution.

To acquire the software use 'ftp' to connect to genesis.bbb.caltech.edu and login as the user "anonymous", giving your full email address as the password. You can then 'cd /pub/genesis' and download the software. Alternatively, you may use your WWW browser with the URL ftp://genesis.bbb.caltech.edu/pub/genesis.

Be sure to download the files LATEST.NEWS and README for information about new features of the current GENESIS version, the files on the system, and installation instructions.

European ftp mirror site

You may now get the GENESIS distribution, as well as the libraries for Parallel GENESIS by anonymous ftp from ftp://bbf-ftp.uia.ac.be/genesis, as well as from the US site ftp://genesis.bbb.caltech.edu/pub/genesis.

The GENESIS Home Page is also mirrored at http://bbf-www.uia.ac.be/SOFT/GENESIS_info.html.

Any other questions about the system or its distribution should be sent to genesis@bbb.caltech.edu.

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