Distribution Area for egs4unix_3.0,
Version 3.0 of the Unix
system for EGS4
Ionizing Radiation Standards Group
National Research Council of Canada
Note that a new, highly improved version of EGS4 is available. It is
called EGSnrc and is available
here.
The complete EGSnrc manual (PIRS-701) is available on-line and the section
describing the improvements over EGS4 is available here.
Two papers were published in Medical Physics,
March 2000 which describe much of the improved physics. These and other
related works are available
on-line.
EGS4 and licenses
There have been some questions raised about the EGS4 license conditions.
These are very similar to those covered in the EGSnrc license (see above
site). We will be developing a formal license statement. In the
meantime, the e-mail
on the EGS listserver of Sept 14, 2000 tries to address some of the
issues.
What is EGS4?
EGS4 is a Monte Carlo code for doing simulations of the
transport of
electrons and photons in arbitrary geometries. It was originally
developed at SLAC for high energy physics applications and has been
extended with the help of NRC and KEK to apply for lower energy
applications. To obtain a copy of the
400 page manual (``The EGS4 Code System'' by W. R. Nelson and H.
Hirayama and D.W.O. Rogers, SLAC-265, Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, 1985), email
W. Ralph Nelson.
For an extensive
bibliography of papers related to the use of EGS4, see the
``NRC Bibliography of EGS Related Papers''. There is also an
EGS home page and
the related
BEAM
home page about modelling radiotherapy accelerators.
At NRC there are also a large number of
papers available
both directly on-line or as postscript files.
The distribution
This is version 3 of the NRCC Unix distribution related to EGS. There
have been many improvements and changes which are summarized in CHANGES_from_2.0 , mostly related to
portability of the code to different Unix flavours (SGI, SUN, DEC OSF, HP,
Linux, RS6000 have been tested), plus many small changes to the code (in
particular the bug in the Moller sampling routine is fixed), the mortran
compiler now uses a larger buffer (300K) and PEGS4 now works on SGI's,
although we don't know how it got fixed!.
The major NRC user code DOSRZ has seen extensive upgrades, such as KERMA
and
scattered photon scoring options plus various new source routines. We have
also added the user code FLURZ to the distribution (this has the
same characteristics as DOSRZ but it scores fluence in cylindrical
geometries rather than dose). Unfortunately, FLURZ uses the variable
length tab option
for output and this doesn't work for all compilers- in particular the g77
linux compiler).
The EGS_Windows package has also been extensively upgraded by Bill
Haneman, but it still only works for SGI machines.
README.general.3.0 describes
more details about this distribution
Announce.Release
is a copy of the announcement of the
release of this version, with acknowledgements of help received about
this distribution from many people.
EGS_Windows
EGS_Windows is a code for displaying EGS simulations in 3-D.
In fall 1999 a new version of EGS_Windows became available which
works on any X-windows based machine, in particular Linux based
machines. It is distributed from its own site.
Known Bugs
CHANGES_from_3.0
is a list of all bugs reported and
changes made in the EGS4 system at NRC since the release of 3.0. You may need some of these to
make the distribution work.
Files to download
To download one of these files, using Netscape(2.0 or greater, but not from a PC running DOS/Windows
because the transfer of the file doesn't work!), point to the file
you want, push the right mouse button and ``Save link as...'' to the
file you want on your local area.
Using Mosaic, under the options menu, select the ``Load to local disk''
option and then click on the file(s) you want.
The uncompressed tar file is 10 Mbytes and more space is needed for
installation and testing (75 Mbytes for 2 supplied scripts).
You only need one tar file, the shorter assuming you have
gzip installed.
egs4unix_3.0.tar.gz 2,412,983 bytes
egs4unix_3.0.tar.Z 2,882,025 bytes
The following 2 files are the NRC system updated to May 1998 for
use at the 1998 EGS4 course. See the CHANGES_from_3.0 file for list
of changes. Note these file DO NOT include PRESTA-II. We are working
on it. If you already have EGS4 running, you probably don't need to
download this update. If you are a new user, you might as well pick up
the latest although it has not been carefully checked on anything other
than SGI and Linux.
If you want to use DOSRZ with the new
distribution, you MUST also download the new_dosrz_distn.tar files below
since the 3.2 distribution mistakenly did not include all new files. 3.2
does not include the old DOSRZ.
egs4unix_3.2.tar.gz 2,496,864 bytes
egs4unix_3.2.tar.Z 2,974,726 bytes
INSTALL_EGS script
B
for installing EGS4. Remember to: chmod +x INSTALL_EGS.
CHANGES_from_2.0 A file
with changes made to EGS4 system since distribution of version 2.0.
Look here for errors found and corrected.
If you have trouble downloading the tar files using your browser, it is possible to pick
them up using an
ftp site, but note you still need the INSTALL_EGS etc from this area.
(If you have trouble accessing this ftp site, please inform
the webmaster)
NEW DOSRZ
We have completely reworked the user-code DOSRZ to have a much
friendlier input routine and more robust output routines. The output
is now fully integrated with the xmgr plotting package. You can
download just this package to work with versions 3.2 or 3.0.
new_dosrz_distn.tar.Z 164,466
bytes
new_dosrz_distn.tar.gz 108,637
bytes
KEK -extensions
These extensions have not been integrated into the standard NRCC
system, but
are clearly of interest and should be easy to make work. These
extensions include bound Compton effects, linearly polarized
photon scattering and Implementation of L-Shell
Photoelectron and L X-rays for elements.
Other extensions are photon cross section data based on
PHOTX, revision of Sternheimer density effect coefficient,
and EGS4 shower display system on PC.
For information about them, visit
EGS4 home page at KEK
or contact
Hideo Hirayama
and
Yoshihito Namito .
Register Please
We would appreciate having you register as a user if you download the
files. Please send an e-mail message to
egs4
and include your own e-mail address, your institution and as much
info as you care to share about your application. Note however that
this is not a ``persons'' account, and we are only using this account
to keep a record of the users and the mail may not be read often.
We may use the names to send
out information about updates etc.
You are also asked to send the same
information to
W. Ralph Nelson.
For further information, see the
contacts below.
EGS4 listserver
There is an EGS4 discussion group maintained at Stanford. This is the
method we will use to announce updates etc.
To send e-mail to the entire list use:
egs4-l@mailbox.slac.stanford.edu
To add or delete yourself, send an e-mail to:
listserv@mailbox.slac.stanford.edu
and in the body of the mail, issue these commands (only)
SUBscribe EGS4-L your_name This will add you to list
UNSubscribe EGS4-L This will get you off the list
WHO EGS4-L Gets list of subscribers
END To prevent signatures from messing up
For further information see
details on the
EGS home page.
Further information in general about the distribution and use of
EGS4 on unix systems, e-mail:
Dave Rogers
webmaster for problems with
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