Go on to Section 8.FLASH is still under active development, so many desireable features have not yet been included (eg., self-gravity, thermal conduction, radiation transport, etc.). Also, you will most likely encounter bugs in the distributed code. A mailing list has been established for reporting problems with the distributed FLASH code. To report a bug, send email to
flash_bugs@mcs.anl.gov
giving your name and contact information and a description of the procedure you were following when you encountered the error. Information about the machine, operating system (uname -a), and compiler you are using is also extremely helpful. Please do not send checkpoint files, as these can be very large. If the problem can be reproduced with one of the standard test problems, send a copy of your runtime parameter file and your setup options. This situation is very desireable, as it limits the amount of back-and-forth communication needed for us to reproduce the problem. We cannot be responsible for problems which arise with a physics module or initial model you have developed yourself, but we will generally try to help with these if you can narrow down the problem to an easily reproducible effect which occurs in a short program run and if you are willing to supply your added source code.
At present no address has been set up for general development questions and comments, but we expect this to change in the near future. Documentation (including this user's guide) and support information for FLASH can be obtained on the World Wide Web at
http://flash.uchicago.edu/flashcode/
Go on to Section 8.