From: Bruno Turcksin <bruno.turcksin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:20:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Augment documentation.
X-Git-Tag: v8.0.0~312
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d15c5c65ce5577a9718d69711ffe73aacc776e6;p=dealii.git

Augment documentation.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@29757 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
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diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
index 6aceb090d3..dfb20d925c 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/changes.h
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ this function.
 
 
 <ol>
+  <li> New: deal.II can now be compiled to 64-bit global dof indices. To turn 
+  this feature on, use the cmake option -DDEAL_II_WITH_64BIT_INDICES=ON. If 
+  PETSc and/or Trilinos are used, they must be compiled to support 64-bit
+  indices. To write a code that can use 32-bit and 64-bit indices depending on
+  deal.II compilation option, use types::global_dof_index for all the global 
+  dof indices.
+  <br>
+  (Kainan Wang and Bruno Turcksin, 2013/06/05)
+  </li>
 
   <li> New: All vector classes now have a member function
   <code>locally_owned_elements</code> that returns an index
diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/news.html b/deal.II/doc/news/news.html
index 21da046e26..cb21552703 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/news/news.html
+++ b/deal.II/doc/news/news.html
@@ -37,6 +37,17 @@
     </p>
 
     <dl>
+      <dt>
+          <strong>2013/06/05: 64-bit version of deal.II</strong>
+      </dt>
+      <dd>
+          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.
+      </dd>
+
+
       <dt>
           <strong>2013/03/07: Build system switched to CMake</strong>
       </dt>