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# Python 3.6/3.7 needed for all platforms. Python 3.8 supported only on OS X and Windows

# CPU only. No GPU/CUDA needed. (Linux, OS X and Windows)
python3 -m pip install taichi-nightly

# With GPU (CUDA 10.0) support (Linux and Windows)
python3 -m pip install taichi-nightly-cuda-10-0

# With GPU (CUDA 10.1) support (Linux and Windows)
python3 -m pip install taichi-nightly-cuda-10-1

# Build from source if you work in other environments

Note:

• On Ubuntu 19.04+, please sudo apt install libtinfo5.
• On Windows, please install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable if you haven't.

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Updates

• (Mar 29, 2020) v0.5.10 released

  • Language and syntax
    • Fix ti.static(ti.grouped(ti.ndrange(...))) syntax checker false positive (#680) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Command line interface
    • ti test now supports -t/--threads for specifying number of testing threads (#674) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Full log

• (Mar 28, 2020) v0.5.9 released

  • CPU backends
    • Support bitmasked as the leaf block structure for 1x1x1 masks (#676) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • CUDA backend
    • Support bitmasked as the leaf block structure for 1x1x1 masks (#676) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Documentation
    • Updated contributor guideline (#658) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Infrastructure
    • 6x faster compilation on CPU/CUDA backends (#673) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Language and syntax
    • Simplify dense.bitmasked to bitmasked (#670) (by Ye Kuang)
    • Support break in non-parallel for statements (#583) (by 彭于斌)
  • Metal backend
    • Enable bitmasked on Metal (#661) (by Ye Kuang)
    • Silence compile warnings (#650) (by Ye Kuang)
  • Optimization
    • Improved Taichi IR optimizers (#662) (#668) (by xumingkuan)
  • Full log

• (Mar 24, 2020) v0.5.8 released. Visible/notable changes:

  • Language features
    • Access out-of-bound checking on CPU backends (#572) (by xumingkuan)
    • Testable device-side assertion failures on CPUs (#605) (by xumingkuan)
    • Added Expr.copy_from (by Yuanming Hu)
    • Added ti.Vector.unit to generate unit vectors (by Yuanming Hu)
    • Use a = ti.static(a_very_long_variable) for easy aliasing [doc] (#587) (by 彭于斌 and KLozes)
    • Added ti.atomic_min, ti.atomic_max, ti.atomic_bit_or, ti.atomic_bit_and, ti.atomic_bit_xor (CPU and CUDA by KLozes, OpenGL by 彭于斌, Metal by Ye Kuang)
  • Differentiable programming
    • Experimental support for automatically differentiating through conditional global load/stores (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Bug fixes
    • Fixed stack traceback printing on OS X (#610) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • CLI
    • ti format now cover all files from upstream/master to the working tree (#629) (by Ye Kuang)
    • ti test now uses argparse for better customizability (#601) (by 彭于斌)
  • OpenGL backend
    • OpenGL Compute Shader backend will officially release very soon with v0.6! (by 彭于斌)
  • Metal backend
    • Metal backend sparsity support work in progress (by Ye Kuang)
  • Examples
    • Added examples/mgpcg.py (#573) (by KLozes)
    • Added examples/sdf_renderer.py (by Yuanming Hu)
    • Added examples/mgpcg_advanced.py (#573) (by Yuanming Hu)
  • Full log

• (Mar 4, 2020) v0.5.7 released

  • Deprecated ti.classfunc. Please simply use ti.func, even if you are decorating a class member function
  • Upgrade spdlog from 0.14.0 to 1.5.0 with git submodule (#565) (by Mingkuan Xu [xumingkuan])
  • Metal backend refactored (by Ye Kuang [k-ye])
  • Fixed infinitely looping signal handlers
  • Fixed ti test on release mode
  • Doc updated

• Full history

Related papers

• (ICLR 2020) Differentiable Programming for Physical Simulation [Video] [BibTex] [Code]
  • by Yuanming Hu, Luke Anderson, Tzu-Mao Li, Qi Sun, Nathan Carr, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Frédo Durand
• (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019) High-Performance Computation on Sparse Data Structures [Video] [BibTex] [Code]
  • by Yuanming Hu, Tzu-Mao Li, Luke Anderson, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Frédo Durand