* way, either by supporting a data format of another program, or by actively
* calling functions of other packages. Configuration of interfaces, if
* necessary at all, is described in the deal.II ReadMe file.
- *
- *
+ *
+ *
* @section SodtwarePrePost Pre- and Postprocessing
*
* @subsection SoftwareVis Visualization tools
* This is a list of visualization formats and software that deal.II
* supports. Data in these formats is written by the DataOutBase and in parts
* by the GridOut classes (see @ref output).
- *
+ *
*
* @subsubsection SoftwareAVS AVS Express
*
* gnuplot, even on locally refined and unstructured meshes, See
* http://www.gnuplot.info/
*
- *
+ *
* @subsubsection SoftwareOpenDX OpenDX
*
* The former IBM Visual Data Explorer, now an OpenSource project at
* http://www.opendx.org/.
*
- *
+ *
* @subsubsection SoftwarePovray Povray
*
* While it is not actually taylored to scientific visualization, you
* may be able to produce impressive pictures of three-dimensional
* deformed bodies with http://www.povray.org/
*
- *
+ *
* @subsubsection SoftwareTecplot Tecplot
*
* deal.II writes textual and binary files for Tecplot. See
* http://www.tecplot.com for more details on this software.
*
- *
+ *
* @subsubsection SoftwareXFig XFig
*
* Though not a visualization tool at all, you can nevertheless write grids in
* at http://vtk.org/pdf/file-formats.pdf .
*
*
- *
+ *
* @section SoftwareLibs Libraries used inside deal.II
*
* @subsection SoftwarePETSc PETSc
* namespace, that allow the use of PETSc in much the same way as deal.II's
* own linear algebra classes are used. The use of these wrappers is explained
* in the step-17 and step-18 example programs, as well as in the @ref
- * PETScWrappers module. The <a href="../../readme.html">ReadMe</a> file
+ * PETScWrappers module. The <a href="../../readme-petsc-trilinos.html">ReadMe</a> file
* explains how to configure deal.II to use PETSc.
*
* PETSc can be obtained from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/.
* algebra data structures and algorithms. It, too, can work on parallel
* clusters.
*
- * Currently, we do not have wrapper classes that make Trilinos objects look
- * like deal.II objects. However, our Makefiles are setup so that programs
- * using Trilinos classes are automatically linked against the Trilinos
- * libraries, and header files are found automatically. The <a
- * href="../../readme.html">ReadMe</a> file explains how to configure deal.II
- * to use this feature.
+ * Interfaces to Trilinos exist in the TrilinosWrappers namespace,
+ * making matrices, vectors, and solvers look like the corresponding
+ * deal.II classes. The <a href="../../readme-petsc-trilinos.html">ReadMe</a> file
+ * explains how to configure deal.II to use this feature.
*
* Trilinos can be obtained from http://trilinos.sandia.gov.
*
* same number of cells, when distributing work for parallel programs. METIS
* can be obtained from http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/index.html
*
- *
+ *
* @subsection SoftwareUMFPACK UMFPACK
*
* UMFPACK is a sparse direct solver and is included by permission with