Release note for the iEBE-MUSIC v1.2

This is the official release of the iEBE-MUSIC framework v1.2.

Major new features:

• Enable thermal photon emission and spin polarization calculations
• Add a new afterburner_type to choose different hadronic transport models
• Download individual code packages with specific commit numbers
• Add model parameter files for individual publications for data reproducibility
• Introduce multi-stage data reduction and add data analysis scripts
• Add cluster support for various NSF XSEDE machines
• Improve checkPoint implementations on OSG

Full Changelog: v1.1...v1.2

Release note for the iEBE-MUSIC v1.1

This is the official release of the iEBE-MUSIC framework v1.1.

Major new features:

• Improved simulations with 3D-Glauber + MUSIC + UrQMD
• Enable restarting simulations from intermediate output files
• Support for Open Science Grid
• Numerous improvements on the simulation chain and event record
• Add code documentation

Full Changelog: v1.0...v1.1

Official release of the iEBE-MUSIC v1.0

This is the official release of the iEBE-MUSIC framework 1.0.

It includes the following modules.

• The IP-Glasma model
• KoMPoST effective kinetic theory
• 3D dynamical MC-Glauber model
• MUSIC relativistic viscous hydrodynamics
• iSS particlization
• UrQMD hadronic afterburner
• Hadronic_afterburner_toolkit analysis tools

Docker support: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/chunshen1987/iebe-music

The framework provides support to run on high-performance computing centers, such as NERSC and Open Science Grid.