</dd>
- <dt><a name="umfpack"></a><a href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/"
+ <dt><a name="umfpack"></a><a href="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html"
target="_top">UMFPACK</a></dt>
<dd>
<p>
- <a href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/"
- target="_top">UMFPACK</a> is a sparse direct solver that we often
- use in prototype codes where the goal is to simply get a linear
- system solved robustly.
- The interface will be enabled by default, either using a version
- installed on your system of using a version that comes bundled
- with <acronym>deal.II</acronym>.
- It can be disabled explicitly by using the
+ <a href="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html">UMFPACK</a>,
+ which is part of SuiteSparse, is a sparse direct solver that we often use
+ in prototype codes where the goal is to simply get a linear system solved
+ robustly. The interface will be enabled by default, either using a version
+ installed on your system of using a version that comes bundled with
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym>. It can be disabled explicitly by using the
<code>-DDEAL_II_WITH_UMFPACK=OFF</code> argument.
To use a self compiled version, pass the argument
<code>-DUMFPACK_DIR=/path/to/umfpack</code> to the
</p>
<p>
- UMFPACK has its own license. To use it with deal.II, please
- read it and make sure that you agree with it. You can find
- the license of UMFPACK
- <a href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/">here</a>.
- We include UMFPACK in the deal.II distributions courtesy of
- its author, <a href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~davis/">Timothy
+ SuiteSparse has its own license. To use it with deal.II, please read it
+ and make sure that you agree with it. You can find the license of
+ SuiteSparse inside the SuiteSparse download at the link given above. We
+ include UMFPACK in the deal.II distributions courtesy of its
+ author, <a href="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/welcome.html">Timothy
A. Davis</a>.
</p>
</dd>
href="#optional-software">other packages</a> that you either
have to install yourself. They are, of course, covered by their
own licenses. In addition, deal.II comes bundled with copies of
- <a href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/"
- target="_top">UMFPACK</a>,
+ <a href="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html">
+ UMFPACK</a>,
<a href="http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/"
target="_top">Threading Building Blocks</a>,
<a href="http://www.boost.org/" target="_top">BOOST</a> and
DEAL_II_NAMESPACE_OPEN
/**
- * This class provides an interface to the sparse direct solver UMFPACK (see
- * <a href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack">this link</a>).
+ * This class provides an interface to the sparse direct solver UMFPACK, which
+ * is part of the SuiteSparse library (see <a
+ * href="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html">this link</a>).
* UMFPACK is a set of routines for solving non-symmetric sparse linear
* systems, Ax=b, using the Unsymmetric-pattern MultiFrontal method and direct
* sparse LU factorization. Matrices may have symmetric or unsymmetric
* @note UMFPACK has its own license, independent of that of deal.II. If you
* want to use the UMFPACK you have to accept that license. It is linked to
* from the deal.II ReadMe file. UMFPACK is included courtesy of its author,
- * <a href="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~davis/">Timothy A. Davis</a>.
+ * <a href="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/welcome.html">Timothy
+ * A. Davis</a>.
*
*
* <h4>Instantiations</h4>