[MSNoise] MSNoise 1.2 - RELEASE

[Thomas Lecocq]

Dear users,

I'm thrilled to announce the release of MSNoise 1.2 ! This release marks 
a big change in many aspects! In terms of performances:

  * The MySQL DB is no longer a "forced choice": one can use a simple
    sqlite database to run MSNoise. We still strongly recommend using
    MySQL for performance reasons.
  * The*whiten*function now returns the FFT of the signal, as this is
    directly used by*MyCorr*, and we save the time needed
    to/ifft/then/fft/the array.
  * The*database_tools*have been completely rewritten in order to use
    SQLAlchemy instead of explicit MySQL expressions.

Thanks to the feedback of some early users, we have been able to track 
down bugs and pitfalls along the steps. Thedocumentation 
<http://msnoise.org/doc>is now linked directly to the code, mostly 
embedded in the steps, which allows its evolution together with the 
code. I have rewritten theInstallation Guide 
<http://msnoise.org/doc/installation.html>, it's now quite complete for 
Windows and Linux. I need to find a Mac to test it sometime soon. There 
are still some steps of the installation procedure that are not 
straightforward for most users (MySQL server set-up), I'll try to 
provide guidelines for this very soon.

For those already addicted to MSNoise, note the steps have changed 
names: for example*02.new_jobs.py*is now*s02new_jobs.py*. This allows 
importing each step as a module, which was required for building the 
documentation.

*MSNoise 1.2*is available on GitHub.Download it 
<https://github.com/ROBelgium/MSNoise/tree/1.2>and start playing ! Note, 
1.2 is not compatible with the previous version (well, it *should* work 
with a little tweaking to the database, scream on theMailing-List 
<http://mailman-as.oma.be/mailman/listinfo/msnoise>if you need help!).

/Thanks to Kasper, Zack, Carolin, Philippe and Agathe for their inputs!
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Best regards from Brussels,

Thomas /
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/see this news on the web: http://www.msnoise.org/news/msnoise-1-2/ /

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Dr. Thomas Lecocq
Geologist

Seismology - Gravimetry
Royal Observatory of Belgium

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