June 2008 : GEMPACK 10 is released, after several months testing at CoPS and selected other sites.
June 2007: Mark Horridge and Ken Pearson named as two of the inaugural five members of the GTAP Hall of Fame
April 2007: After 24 years developing GEMPACK, Ken Pearson has reduced his commitment,
moving towards a part-time, research-oriented involvement. He has passed on the position
of Director, GEMPACK Software, to Mark Horridge, who will assume overall and day-to-day
responsibilities, assisted by Dr. Michael Jerie (software and support) and Louise Pinchen
(Business Manager). Ken will remain in the background to solve more difficult
problems.
These re-arrangements are unlikely to affect GEMPACK users much. For the future, we are
confident in being able to offer modellers the same steady improvements in software and
the same meticulous support and documentation that Ken Pearson and Jill Harrison
(predecessor of Michael Jerie) provided for many years.
We put together some notes to help people choose a new PC suitable for running longer GEMPACK simulations. Also, dates for 2007 training courses were announced. (item added January 2007)
Jill Harrison is retiring at the end of September 2006. Jill has made huge contributions to GEMPACK software, support and teaching. Her legacy will continue well into the future. We wish her well as she begins the next phase of her life. (item added September 2006)
The current version of the software is Release 9.0-003 (August 2006), which includes some bug fixes and a couple of enhancements over and above the features in Release 9.0 (April 2005). Release 9.0 (April 2005) contains many new features. (item added August 2006).
A GEMPACK-based training course on Dynamic CGE modelling of the USA economy will be offered in Washington from 4th to 12th December 2006. More details. (item added July 2006).
The Centre of Policy Studies welcomes new staff member Dr Michael Jerie. Michael joins CoPS from the Department of Mathematics at La Trobe University. He takes up the position of Research Fellow (Software Support/Developer). (item added June 2006)
Ken Pearson and Mark Horridge presented a paper on parallel processing with GEMPACK at the 9th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) this June. (item added June 2006)