Dear CCPForge users The underlying GForge software has been updated to version 6 and so we plan to upgrade CCPForge to this version on Wednesday 18 April 2012. CCPForge will be out action from 8:00 AM (GMT) on that day and will be back by 17:00 (GMT) on Thursday 19 April. New features that GForge 6 provides can be found at http://gforgegroup.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/new-features-in-gforge-6-0/. Regards David Worth CCPForge Administrator

The recently funded new CCP for tomographic imaging software (CCPI) has joined CCPForge. They are planning to make use of the source code control systems offered by CCPForge to facilitate collaboration on their software development between groups at the University of Manchester and the University of Bath.

The use of CCPForge has been highlighted in an blog post (http://software.ac.uk/blog/2011-10-13-save-scientific-legacy-code) for the UK's Software Sustainability Institute. Describing the work on a "molecular physics" code the post identified the use of Subversion to control the source code, and, more importantly, the collaboration between "members of the development team and the software’s users" as particular strengths of CCPForge. Here's hoping for more... (see more)

Minor bug fixed in C & C++ interfaces courtesy of Brian Kloppenborg.

As you know CCPForge is supported by EPSRC through a service level agreement (SLA) with the Computational Science and Engineering Department of STFC. EPSRC are currently reviewing the computational support offered by the Department (which is mostly based at Daresbury Laboratory). As part of this they have commissioned a Customer Satisfaction Survey to which your views on the CCPForge service should contribute. The link to the survey is http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/epsrc/csedsla and... (see more)