From: Timo Heister Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:32:30 +0000 (+0100) Subject: add short 8.4 announcement X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79509a586a8cac925e25fb17f2a28939a6727c6f;p=release-papers.git add short 8.4 announcement --- diff --git a/8.4/announce-short b/8.4/announce-short new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c52c6f --- /dev/null +++ b/8.4/announce-short @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Version 8.4.0 of deal.II, the object-oriented finite element library awarded the +J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, has been released. It is +available for free under an Open Source license from the deal.II homepage at + + https://www.dealii.org/ + +The major changes of this release are: +- Parallel triangulations can now be partitioned with cell weights. +- Improved support for complex numbers throughout the library. +- A new triangulation type that supports parallel computations but ensures + that the entire mesh is available on every processor. +- New Rannacher-Turek and Q(p) bubble enriched finite elements +- Initial support for compiling with Visual C++ under Windows. +- see the preprint at https://www.dealii.org/deal84-preprint.pdf +- More than 140 other features and bugfixes, see the full list of changes at + https://www.dealii.org/8.4.0/doxygen/deal.II/changes_between_8_3_and_8_4.html + +The main features of deal.II are: +- Extensive documentation and 52 working example programs +- Support for dimension-independent programming +- Locally refined adaptive meshes and multigrid support +- A zoo of different finite elements +- Built-in support for shared memory and distributed parallel computing, + scaling from laptops to clusters with 10,000s of processor cores +- Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, METIS, UMFPACK and other external software +- Output for a wide variety of visualization platforms. + +Wolfgang Bangerth, Timo Heister, Guido Kanschat, Matthias Maier, +and many other contributors.