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                     ATOMISTIX TOOLKIT (ATK)
                       VIRTUAL NANOLAB (VNL)
                          README File

                       Version 2008.10.0
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             Copyright (C) 2008 QuantumWise A/S
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*** Revision date: 9 December 2008 ***


RELEASE NOTES

* This version requires version 2008.10 or later of the FLEXlm
  license features.

* This version is released for 
  - 32-bit Windows
  - 32-bit Linux
  - 64-bit Linux

* Supported platforms
  - Windows XP SP2
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server
  - Novell Linux Desktop 9 SP3
  - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1
  While it is expected to run also on other Linux distributions,
  this cannot always be guaranteed. Also on the platforms listed above
  installation of additional libraries may be required.

* Minimal system requirements: Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon at 2 GHz, 
  500 Mb free disk space, 1 Gb RAM



APPLICATION NOTES

ATK
* Substantial performance improvements (2-5 times faster)
  - Intel Math Kernel Library used for matrix operations
  - ATK now threads on multi-cores
  - Real matrices used for Gamma-point calculations
  - Algorithm improvements
* Significantly reduced memory consumption
* Bug fix: The two-probe algorithm is now read properly from the NetCDF file
* Minor bug fixes

VNL
* New instrument: Bulk Builder
* Minor bug fixes


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All Rights Reserved
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