Copyright (c) 2015-2022 Julian Adamek (Université de Genève & Observatoire de Paris & Queen Mary University of London & Universität Zürich)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The Software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the Software or the use or other dealings in the Software.

Before compilation, make sure that all required external libraries are installed:

• LATfield2 version 1.1
• FFTW version 3
• GNU Scientific Library (GSL) including CBLAS
• HDF5

Make sure that the include paths are set properly, or add them to the makefile. Also check the compiler settings in the makefile. The code is compiled by typing:

make

A typical command to run a simulation looks like this:

mpirun -np 16 ./gevolution -n 4 -m 4 -s settings.ini

For further information, please refer to the User Manual (manual.pdf)

If you use gevolution for scientific work, we kindly ask you to cite Adamek J., Daverio D., Durrer R., and Kunz M., Nature Phys. 12, 346 (2016) in your publications.

For bug reports and other important feedback you can contact the authors, [email protected] (for queries related to gevolution) [email protected] (for queries related to the LATfield2 library)