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 | Files are grouped together by a common theme - all volumes of the documentation Hazy are packaged together, all the stellar atmosphere files are together, the source files, and the test cases. |
| The files are in tar'd and gziped format. Uncompress the individual files (example: gunzip filename.tar) then untar the file with the command tar -xvf filename.tar. PC users: WinZip will do both steps with a double mouse click. |
| The documentation is available as either PDF or postscript. |
| The PDF files require version 3 or later. You can get a free viewer from Adobe. |
| The postscript files were created with MS Word using the current Adobe postscript driver. Most were gzip'd. They are viewable with my version of gsview. Unix users: if you cannot view the postscript files it is almost certainly because you need to update your viewer. The gv viewer always seems to work. The files almost always print ok even when you can't view them. |
| The 1997 version of Hazy with updates is the current description of Cloudy 94. The change from Fortran to C will be an unwelcome culture shock for older people (I wrote my first FORTRAN program while the Apollo XII astronauts were on the moon) and a welcome relief for graduate students. Every effort has been made to not also change the functionality of the code, and to keep the atomic data base parallel between 90 and 94, at least initially. Input scripts that worked for C90 will work for C94.00 with only a few changes, and predictions of the two versions should agree fairly well. Hazy will be updated in summer 2000. |
| Hazy comes in four volumes. Vol. 1 gives a discussion of the commands, Vol. 2 of the numerical procedures, Vol. 3 of the machine environment, and Vol. 4 describes the output and how it relates to observations. Last changed 1997 Oct 26. Hazy is available in the following formats: |
| PDF: The four volumes can be obtained as a set of Adobe Acrobat files packed into a single tar file. It may be necessary to obtain a PDF Reader, free from Adobe. This file is tar'd but not compressed. |
| Postscript: A second gziped tar file contains a complete set of postscript files. Please read the included readme.ps file if this format is chosen, since a high-end postscript printer is needed. |
| The current version is C94.00. Get it here. This also shows how to set up the code. Last changed 1999 Dec 24. |
| Hot Fixes A set of corrections to the source, which will be incorporated in the next incremental upgrade, are listed in the Hot Fixes page. It is very important that you edit the source to incorporate these Hot Fixes since they correct known problems. The source you obtain here does not have any of these these fixes included. (Reason: this is the source that created the output files listed below. You can validate your system/compiler by confirming that this source reproduces that output. This source and output constitutes a reference for where the code was at a particular time.) |
| Known problems with this version are described here. |
| The revision history page gives a complete list to revisions to the code. |
| Reliability in the face of complexity is the real challenge of software development. |
| Test cases input This file contains the suite of test cases I use to verify the behavior of the code in well-documented cases. They are discussed in Vol. 3 of Hazy. This file should be untar'd in its own directory since it will explode into a large number of input files. Last changed 1999 Dec 24. |
| Running the test cases The input files have
names that end in ".in". The code should be executed with this as the
input file. I have scripts that direct output to the same name, but with
the ".out" extension. An example would be cloudy.exe < parispn.in > parispn.outwhere cloudy.exe is the executable, and parispn.in and parispn.out are the input and output files. The test cases input tar file includes Perl script, runall.pl to run all tests in the current directory. The script checkall.pl then checks that they ended successfully. |
| Test cases output These files contain the results of the suite of test cases I use to verify the behavior of the code in well-documented cases. These tar files contain only the resulting output. Results are available for five platforms, PC (NT, Visual Studio 6 SR3, PC end of lines), HP SPP, Alpha, gcc/Intel, and Sparc. Note that the code that generated this output did not have the hot fixes included. Last changed 1999 Dec 24. |
| Kevin Volk incorporated several large grids of stellar atmosphere emergent continua into Cloudy. These can be used as part of the incident continuum with the table stars Werner, table star Rauch, table stars CoStar, or table stars atlas commands, as described in Part 1 of Hazy. It is necessary to download and compile several files if these stellar atmospheres are to be used. Play by play instructions for setting up the stellar atmospheres are given here. |
While doing all that downloading you might be interested in Cloudy's favorite song in mp3 format (from Simon & Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme).
Please let me know of any
problems you encounter or suggestions for how to improve the code and these
instructions.
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Cloudy.
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