<h3>General</h3>
<ol>
+ <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
+ is enabled if a METIS installation is detected, which either happens
+ automatically in <code>./configure</code>, or
+ by passing a value to the switch <code>--with-metis</code> to configure
+ the path of a METIS installation. For more information see the README
+ file.
+ <br>
+ (WB 2004/03/08)
+ </p>
+
<li> <p>
New: We now support MIPSpro compiler version 7.41 from SGI. deal.II
now runs on IRIX64 machines in 64-bit mode.
</p>
<li> <p> New: <acronym>deal.II</acronym> now comes with a complete set of
- wrappers classes for PETSc vectors, matrices, linear solvers and
+ wrappers classes for <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/"
+ target="_top">PETSc</a> vectors, matrices, linear solvers and
preconditioners. Many of the algorithms in deal.II have also been
updated to make use of these wrappers. All of this is only enabled if a
PETSc installation is detected. This either happens automatically in
by passing values to the switches <code>--with-petsc</code> and
<code>--with-petsc-arch</code> to configure path and architecture of an
existing PETSc installation. If these switches are not used, then
- environment variables are searched for this information.
+ environment variables are searched for this information. For more
+ information see the README file.
<br>
(WB 2004/03/01)
</p>