Puffin v1.9.0-alpha-1

This is the first alpha release of Puffin.

Recent Changes

Recent changes over the closed version:

• Can now input with the Puffin HDF5 output format
• More metadata in the output files
• Can now resume from previous runs using HDF5 Puffin dumps
• Twiss parameters can be used with the simple beam input
• Communication time reduced in reorganisation stage of the parallel field algorithm
• Using doxygen for dev documentation
• The example auto-plotting python scripts for Visit have been refactored and can be called separately
• Added python script (powPrep.py) to collect the power data together
• Better point transforms for quads, now including energy dependence
• Fixed bug of extra half-period diffraction per undulator module
• HDF5 output is now the default data output format