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25 Mar 2026 software

asimov-gwdata 0.7.0

This is a minor feature release which introduces new functionality.

asimov 0.5.12
25 Mar 2026 software

asimov 0.5.12

This is a bug-fix release, back-porting fixes from v0.7, which does not introduce any new backwards-incompatible features. It fixes a bug where the ledger could be written to the wrong location when the working directory changed during a monitor run, ensures that failures in post-monitor hooks are logged rather than silently swallowed, and corrects asimov apply --update to robustly handle productions stored with null or variably-structured metadata.

16 Aug 2024 software

minke 2.0.0 alpha 1

I’ve started work on improving the minke codebase to allow it to do things like make compact binary coalescence waveforms and injections, and create framefiles using modern techniques.

asimov 0.5.7
16 Aug 2024 software

asimov 0.5.7

This is a bug-fix release, and doesn’t introduce any new features. Breaking changes

asimov 0.5.6
19 Jan 2024 research software asimov code

asimov 0.5.6

I’m pleased to announce the release of the latest version of asimov.

asimov 0.5.4
10 Nov 2023 blog

asimov 0.5.4

I’m pleased to announce the release of the latest version of asimov.

10 Mar 2023 blog

Running asimov on a single machine

If you’re looking to try out asimov on your own laptop or workstation you’ll quickly run into a bit of a limitation: asimov, and the codes it works with, are designed to run on a large computing cluster. However, we can get around this by installing a lightweight version of the software used on clusters on your own machine before we try to run asimov.

asimov 0.4.0
21 Feb 2023 research asimov software code

asimov 0.4.0

I’m very pleased to announce that the first release of the 0.4 development and review cycle for asimov!

25 May 2021 blog

Asimov v0.3.0 now available!

The latest release of asimov is now available from our gitlab server, as well as being available on pypi.

22 Aug 2019 blog

Making injections with Bilby

The last couple of days I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying organising a number of diversity-related things for our upcoming collaboration meeting, and doing more admin than I can pretend to have enjoyed, so today’s note’s going to be a fairly short one, covering some work I did while helping a student using Bilby, the LSC’s new inference library (named, pleasingly, after an animal).