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| author |   Sebastien Fabbro <bicatali@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-25 18:45:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Sebastien Fabbro <bicatali@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-25 18:45:52 +0000 |
| commit | f4cae980b29cfe641758620f9bc70501f4fbffa6 (patch) | |
| tree | d2a32cee7b24d1f5c2d2aceed299f0f83f2f1a5f /sci-physics/mpb/metadata.xml | |
| parent | Sparc stable, Bug #247464, accepting the invitation in Comment #4. (diff) | |
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Added hdf5, doc and examples flags. Many autotools and QA fixes: quotes, compilers, missing headers. Added also mpi versions of hermitian epsilon and inverse symmetry
(Portage version: 2.2_rc15/cvs/Linux 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
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diff --git a/sci-physics/mpb/metadata.xml b/sci-physics/mpb/metadata.xml index f6101a7218d8..a7870e267ce6 100644 --- a/sci-physics/mpb/metadata.xml +++ b/sci-physics/mpb/metadata.xml @@ -2,5 +2,20 @@ <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <herd>sci-physics</herd> +<longdescription lang="en"> + The MIT Photonic-Bands (MPB) package is a program for computing + the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of + periodic dielectric structures, on both serial and parallel computers. It was + developed by Steven G. Johnson at MIT in the Joannopoulos Ab Initio Physics + group. + This program computes definite-frequency eigenstates of Maxwell's + equations in periodic dielectric structures for arbitrary wavevectors, using + fully-vectorial and three-dimensional methods. It is especially + designed for the study of photonic crystals (a.k.a. photonic + band-gap materials), but is also applicable to many other problems + in optics, such as waveguides and resonator systems. + (For example, it can solve for the modes of waveguides with arbitrary + cross-sections.) +</longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |