* a thorough description of many of the terms used here, can be found in the
* @ref distributed_paper "Distributed Computing paper". In particular, the
* paper shows that the methods discussed in this module scale to thousands of
- * processors and well over a billion degrees of freedom (they may scale to
- * even bigger problems but at the time of writing this, we do not have
- * solvers that are capable of more than $2^{31}$ degrees of freedom due to
- * the use of <code>signed int</code> as index). The paper also gives a
+ * processors and well over a billion degrees of freedom. The paper also gives a
* concise definition of many of the terms that are used here and in other
* places of the library related to distributed computing. The step-40
* tutorial program shows an application of the classes and methods of this