Introduction to the New LAACG Software Compendium

The LAACG used to publish Computer Codes for Particle Accelerator Design and Analysis: A Compendium in printing. The last version has been published in May 1990. With the rapid development of codes and computers it is difficult these days to have a printed version of such a compendium that is up-to-date. Nowadays, the possibilities of the World Wide Web (WWW) provide an excellent means to maintain a permanently up-to-date version of such a compendium.
We started collecting information on a new Online Software Compendium, A Resource for Accelerator Physics and Electromagnetic Simulations in 1995. In February 1996 we started a complete restructuring of this compendium. This new software compendium will not only contain programs, where we have a complete LAACG Info-sheet , but also information on other codes, where we have descriptions or links to their distributors. We encourage you, to use our questionnaire to enter software descriptions for all programs listed here. We ultimately would like to see LAACG Info-sheets for all of them. Our classification schemes by: application, method descriptions and other describing keywords make the search for a specific code and its comparison with other codes much easier.

Note1:

The quality of this publication depends on you. if you know about a good, useful program, let us know.

If you are distributing or maintaining it yourself, please sent us the questionnaire for the creation of a LAACG Info-sheet.
If you know distributors or maintainers of suitable software, please point them to our documents.
Otherwise you can contact us, and we will try to get in contact with the program's distributor or maintainer.

Note2:

We are responsible only for a small number of programs in this collection. Our main contribution to these documents is the collection of information and its proper formatting and maintenance. This compendium is the joined effort of users of the WWW.

Note3:

Feel free to make use of all information in these documents. If you use it in writing, please quote the Los Alamos National Lab publication:

LAACG Online Software Compendium, A Resource for Accelerator Physics and Electromagnetic Simulations, Frank L. Krawczyk, LA-UR-96-????

If you use information on the WWW, please add a link to this document at <URL:http://laacg1.lanl.gov/laacg/componl.html>
If you contact anybody for a program, you have found in these pages, please let them know, that you found the information in our compendium.

We want to thank everybody who contributed and contributes to the information collected in these documents. Please continue to send new and updated information to make this an even more valuable source of information for the scientific community.

If you would like to add or update entries in this compendium use this questionnaire.

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