🍺 Oceananigans v0.8.0

v0.8.0 (2019-06-30)

Diff since v0.7.0

Main features:

• Dynamic launch configuration for GPU kernels (by @maleadt at GPU hackathon). This speeds up the model by ~25%.
• Revised simulation scripts.

Closed issues:

• Register Oceananigans v0.7.0 (#299)
• Portable random number generator for testing. (#176)

Merged pull requests:

• Hydrothermal plumes simulation v2 (#304) (ali-ramadhan)
• Idealized seasonal cycle simulation v2 (#303) (ali-ramadhan)
• Faster model with dynamic launch configuration by @maleadt (#302) (ali-ramadhan)
• Eddying channel script (#301) (ali-ramadhan)
• More benchmarks (#300) (ali-ramadhan)
• Link to Simon Danisch's notebook for plotting GPU output with Makie (#296) (ali-ramadhan)