3.0.2 - Hotfix

What's Changed

• Fixed a bug that caused the demo application to crash because the resource files for the button icons could not be loaded
• Package with source by @olepoeschl in #147
• Bump com.formdev:flatlaf from 3.5.2 to 3.5.4 by @dependabot in #148
• Bump org.lwjgl:lwjgl-bom from 3.3.4 to 3.3.5 by @dependabot in #149

Full Changelog: 3.0.1...3.0.2

Latest Nightly Build

Full Changelog: 3.0.2...nightly

3.0.1 - Hotfix

What's changed?

• fixed a bug in the demo GUI that caused an annoying error message before and after each run, when the application found only 1 available GPU in the system
• the "About"-Window now actually shows the correct version and release date

Edit: The artifacts now also include the source code.

Full Changelog: 3.0.0...3.0.1

3.0.0

What's changed

Playing around is now much more fun:

• thanks to a feature-rich, pretty GUI for the demo application
• thanks to dynamic load-balancing for multi-GPU
• thanks to a much prettier command line interface for selecting GPUs
• ... and much more handy features available in the GUI!

What also happened:

• added a simple, recursive, single-threaded solver for comparison purposes
• new project structure, splitted up into 4 modules: core, impl, demo, examples
• some cleaning here and there

Full Changelog: 2.0.0...3.0.0

2.0.0

Outdated! Not compatible with the tutorial.

What's Changed

• now using Kryo Serialization for faster storing and restoring of solver states and GZIP streams for smaller file sizes
• made sure that the autoSave feature always finished storing the solver state, even if the program is closed mid-storing
• new Solver interface, simpler and cleaner
• cleaner structure of config files
• drastically lowered the CPU consumption when the program waits for the GPU to finish
• small performance increase for the GPUSolver

1.5.0

Lots of nice changes

• implemented a beautiful command line interface (try nqueensfaf-1.5.0-cli.jar)
• now it's possible to use multiple GPUs at the same time
• easily configure, how the workload should be distributed to all used GPUs
• configuration made simple by using a json file or creating a Config-Object in code
  -> have a look at the config-example.json, you can play with the settings (see also Config.java)
• storing and restoring now much cleaner implemented, also using json format

1.4.0

• Converted to Maven project

1.3.0

New features:

• added SymSolver for getting the number of unique solutions.
  That was honestly so genius: it places multiple queens that are 90 or respective 180 degrees symmetric and calculates the result in the end dependent on the number of total solutions (unqique or not) for a board size. And it's really really fast.
• the number of preset queens for the GpuSolver can now be set
• fixed some bugs, for example one that caused the GpuSolver to not free the GPU's memory after a run

1.2.0

Migrated to from LWJGL 2 to LWJGL 3

• apparently better kernel startup performance (I suppose it's due to less overhead thanks to the use of primitives in LWJGL 3 instead of wrappers in LWJGL 2)
• got rid of the manual extraction of lwjgl natives due to better handling of this thing in LWJGL 3

1.1.1 (Bugfix)

Bugfix for autoSave function