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Sim4Life V7.0.1 Release Notes
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Release Date:
24.03.2022


Sim4Life V7.0.1 is a maintenance release based on Sim4Life V7.0.
V7.0.1 includes a series of bug fixes and improvements over the
previous Sim4Life V7.0.

This document summarizes the bug fixes and improvements, and 
other important issues to be aware of in this release.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Installation Requirements
2. Supported OS
3. List of Main Bugs (Selection) Fixed Since V7.0 Release
4. Known Issues

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1. Installation Requirements
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- Administrator rights are required during the installation process.
- NVIDIA graphics card, with support for OpenGL versions higher
than v3.0.


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2. Supported OS
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- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows 8.1 64 bit
- Windows 10 64 bit
- Windows 11 64 bit

Sim4Life V7.0.1 uses Acceleware's Catania library version 11.3.1.
Please get the latest NVIDIA driver for your hardware from 
the Acceleware website: https://acceleware.com/fdtd-11-3-0 and
https://acceleware.com/fdtd-11-3-2 

Please note that only NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Compute Capability 2.0
or higher are supported by both the Sim4Life CUDA and AXE solvers.


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3. List of Main Bugs Fixed Since V7.0 Release
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- Case 161732: Restore the input selector for some analysis tools
- Case 165711: Fix allowing P-ACOUSTICS to run on more than one GPU
- Case 166940: Fix in “delete from simulation” to completely remove 
a neural fiber from a simulation
- Case 167200: Fix in the naming of the T-NEURO sensors to prevent 
issues with Sweeper and Optimizer
- Case 167277: Restore the missing properties of the field combiner
- Case 167360: Fix in the properties of the multi-port sensor 
combiner


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4. Known Issues
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- Case 32807: Instability for some rare dispersive material
configurations
- Case 40481: Python memory usage occasionally still occupied after
resetting analysis
- Case 47035: Random problems in visualization of Dispersive Viewer
- Case 54000: Random element appearing in Gridder
- Case 61881: Rare issue with distribution of the simulation job to 
the GPUs when using CUDA
- Case 86865: Job priorities may not correspond to the job execution
- Case 98764: Potentially decreased accuracy in rare specific 
events for sensor combiner of Far-field sensor