Palace Windows v1.0.0

Palace Windows v1.0.0

First public native Windows x64 distribution of Palace from this project.

Highlights

• Portable Windows package intended for normal user-space execution.
• Electrostatic capacitance extraction.
• Magnetostatic inductance and mutual-inductance extraction.
• Driven lumped-port S-parameter analysis.
• Basic eigenmode analysis.
• ParaView-compatible field outputs.
• App-local MPI/compiler/runtime dependencies.
• ParMETIS is intentionally not included.
• Packaged examples for all four solver modes.

Validation

This exact package passed the project's focused dependency/ABI tests, all four solver examples, CSV/VTU checks, 60/60 fixed Windows/Linux numerical comparisons, package-integrity checks and an owner-host smoke test.

The METIS/GKlib runtime path uses an attributed standard-library sorting replacement and excludes the identified old LGPL sorting/getopt/regex implementation from the selected runtime. Detailed evidence and third-party redistribution records are included in the repository and package.

Important limitation

Independent clean-machine Windows validation has not yet been performed.

The package has been exercised on the project owner's validated Windows host, but a separate clean standard-user offline Windows environment has not been tested. This is a known limitation of v1.0.0, not a claim of clean-machine portability.

The binaries are unsigned. Windows or browser reputation warnings may therefore appear.

Baseline and unsupported scope

The V1 baseline is Windows 11 x64, CPU, one MPI rank. GPU support, multi-node MPI, ParMETIS ordering, transient analysis, GUI/CAD generation and full Linux feature parity are outside the v1.0.0 release target.

SHA-256

palace-windows-1.0.0-win64.zip
09e3a7c4355a03318f30202556f1bcc26aa7f98fd7c3de8cd341342b1c9112d2

This is an unofficial community-maintained Windows distribution project for Palace and is not an official AWS Palace release.