v0.14.3

[garrettwrong]

ASPIRE v0.14.3 is patch release adding fixes, systems updates, code refactoring, and documentation.

This release provides the following features:

• Common Line code reorganization with broader GPU support
• Support CUDA 13 via gpu_13x install extension

Bug fixes:

• Patches covariance estimation direct solver (cov2d)
• Cleanup old batch sizes (towards GPU friendly sizes)
• Empty histbin workaround for CLSyncVoting (2N)

Systems/CI Updates:

• Scipy v0.17.0 array shaping updates
• Numpy where call updates
• confuse package install dependency workaround
• black style updates
• Updates to finufft==2.5.0
• Drop Python 3.9 support; add Python 3.13.
• Replace scipy face example data

Documentation:

• Adds example EMPIAR 11618 abinitio reconstruction
• Common Line code architecture

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This discussion was created from the release v0.14.3.

[garrettwrong]

Posting the state of the example recons this release for posterity. These runs were with an A100 GPU.

10028

The ribosome JSB run completed in 8 hours yielding 9.9A (0.5 cutoff, 179 pixels)

10073

The yeast JSB run completed in 8 hours yielding 19.5A (0.5 cutoff, 129 pixels)

11618

Completed in 2 hours yielding 19.7A (0.5 cutoff, 129 pixels)

10081

Completed in 50 hours yielding 21A (0.5 cutoff, 129 pixels).