From: Matthias Maier Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 21:56:12 +0000 (-0500) Subject: restructure outline X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab42360a2cc6d5480cf3981d922e7da41aac2584;p=release-papers.git restructure outline --- diff --git a/9.1/paper.tex b/9.1/paper.tex index 853c342..89ea998 100644 --- a/9.1/paper.tex +++ b/9.1/paper.tex @@ -141,24 +141,24 @@ overview of the new features of this major release and serves as a citable reference for the \dealii software library version 9.1. \dealii is an object-oriented finite element library used around the world in the development of finite element solvers. It is available for free under the -GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) from the \dealii homepage at -\url{http://www.dealii.org/}. +GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Downloads are available at +\url{https://www.dealii.org/} and \url{https://github.com/dealii/dealii}. The major changes of this release are: \begin{itemize} -\item Improved support for automatic and symbolic differentiation; -\item Full support for $hp$ adaptivity in parallel computations; -\item Interfaces to the HDF5 file format and libraries. -\item Significantly extended GPU support. -\item Parallel GMG: - \begin{itemize} - \item see \cite{ClevengerHeisterKanschatKronbichler2019} - \item performance optimizations - \item new features? - \item largest runs now at XYZ (Kronbichler?) - \end{itemize} -\item Four new tutorial programs step-61, step-62, step-63, step-64, - as well as one new code gallery program. + \item Improved support for automatic and symbolic differentiation (see + Section~\ref{subsec:ad}), + \item Full support for $hp$ adaptivity in parallel computations (see + Section~\ref{subsec:hp}), + \item Interfaces to the HDF5 file format and libraries (see + Section~\ref{subsec:hdf5}), + \item Significantly extended GPU support (see Section~\ref{subsec:gpu}), + \item Parallel geometric multigrid (GMG) improvements (see + \cite{ClevengerHeisterKanschatKronbichler2019} and + Section~\ref{subsec:gmg}), + \item Four new tutorial programs (step-61, step-62, step-63, step-64), + as well as one new code gallery program (see + Section~\ref{subsec:steps}). \end{itemize} These will all be discussed in more detail in the following section. There are a number of other noteworthy changes in this release: @@ -240,9 +240,11 @@ the release announcement.) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Improved support for automatic and symbolic differentiation} +\label{subsec:ad} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Full support for $hp$ adaptivity in parallel computations} +\label{subsec:hp} \dealii{} has had support for $hp$ adaptive methods since around 2005 (documented in \cite{BangerthKayserHerold2007} and for parallel @@ -336,9 +338,11 @@ and their performance in a separate publication. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{Interfaces to the HDF5 file format and libraries} +\label{subsec:hdf5} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{GPU support via CUDA} +\label{subsec:gpu} The GPU support was significantly extended for the current release. On the one hand, the MPI-parallel vector class \texttt{LinearAlgebra::distributed::Vector} has gained a second template @@ -349,8 +353,15 @@ MPI library is found (as is usual on large GPU-based supercomputers). Furthermore, a new tutorial program \texttt{step-64} has been added that demonstrates the usage of matrix-free methods on Nvidia GPUs. GPUs are advantageous for these kind of operations because of their superior hardware characteristics, in particular a higher memory bandwidth than server CPUs within a given power envelope. The matrix-free GPU components integrated in \dealii have been analyzed against CPUs in \cite{KronbichlerLjungkvist2019}, where the application to geometric multigrid solvers is discussed. +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\subsection{Parallel geometric multigrid improvements} +\label{subsec:gmg} +\marginpar{performance optimizations, new features, +largest runs now at XYZ (Kronbichler?)} + %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{New and improved tutorial and code gallery programs} +\label{subsec:steps} talk about the new programs; also mention updating for C++11 style