From: bangerth Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:23:43 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Announce 8.0. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=48e75cc90f7705fca33e096951e54d45207c6d9a;p=dealii-svn.git Announce 8.0. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@30106 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/news.html b/deal.II/doc/news/news.html index 8d6a8bd7ab..af15ed28af 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/news/news.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/news/news.html @@ -37,14 +37,27 @@

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+ 2013/07/24: Version 8.0 released +
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+ deal.II version 8.0 was released today. This is a major new + release, featuring the conversion of the configuration and + build system to CMake, + support for parallel computations with more than 4 billion + unknowns, and many more. A full list of changes can be + found here. +
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2013/06/05: 64-bit version of deal.II
Because the global dof index variables in deal.II were of type - unsigned int, it was not possible to create a dof_handler with more than - 4.3 billions of unknowns. The 64-bit version of deal.II uses unsigned long - long int and thus, allows for 18e18 unknowns. + unsigned int, it was not possible to create a dof_handler with more than + 4.3 billions of unknowns. The 64-bit version of deal.II uses unsigned long + long int and thus, allows for 18e18 unknowns.