<h3>General</h3>
<ol>
+ <li> <p> New:
+ The step-17 example program shows how to use the new PETSc wrapper
+ classes, and how to do large-scale computations with up to many
+ millions of unknowns on a cluster of computers. This program shows
+ that deal.II is well-suited for truly massive parallel
+ computations. The step-15 and step-16 programs have not yet been
+ finished yet (despite having been started long before step-17), which
+ explains the holes in the numbering of example programs.
+ <br>
+ (WB 2004/04/12)
+ </p>
+
<li> <p> New: <acronym>deal.II</acronym> is now able to interface to the
<a href="http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/index.html"
target="_top">METIS</a> library to generate domain partitionings. This
<a href="c-4-0.html">here.</a></p>
<dl>
+ <dt>
+ <strong>2004/04/12: New example program for PETSc classes and
+ parallel computing</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ The step-17 example program shows how to use the new PETSc wrapper
+ classes, and how to do large-scale computations with up to many
+ millions of unknowns on a cluster of computers. This program shows
+ that deal.II is well-suited for truly massive parallel
+ computations.
+ </dd>
+
<dt>
<strong>2004/03/08: Interfaces to PETSc and METIS</strong>
</dt>
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