From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:13:55 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Announcements. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=acd7646ac547ae2aa89b41b0193170d191f1f71d;p=release-papers.git Announcements. --- diff --git a/9.3/announce b/9.3/announce new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f815c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/9.3/announce @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Version 9.3.0 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: + + - Ten new tutorial programs: step-19 introduces particle methods, + and step-68 uses these for tracking locations in a flow + field. step-66 is a matrix-free geometric multigrid solver for a + nonlinear problem. step-71 and step-72 illustrate automatic and + symbolic differentiation. step-77 demonstrates deal.II's SUNDIALS + interfaces to solve a nonlinear problem. step-74 shows the SIPG + approach to discontinuous Galerkin methods. step-76 is an explicit + integrator for the Euler equations. step-78 solves the + Black-Scholes equations, and step-79 solves a topology + optimization problem. + + - Experimental support for simplex and mixed meshes. + + - Improved flexibility of the particle infrastructure. + + - Support for global-coarsening multigrid algorithms. + + - Advances in the matrix-free infrastructure. + + - Usage of MPI-3.0 shared-memory features to reduce memory footprint. + + - Improved support for evaluation and integration at arbitrary points. + + - More than 210 other new features, improvements, and bugfixes. + +For more information see: + - The preprint at https://www.dealii.org/deal93-preprint.pdf + - The list of changes at + https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_between_9_2_0_and_9_3_0.html + +The main features of deal.II are: + - Extensive documentation and 76 fully-functional example programs + - Support for dimension-independent programming + - Locally refined adaptive meshes + - Multigrid support + - A zoo of different finite elements + - Fast linear algebra + - Built-in support for shared memory and distributed parallel computing, + scaling from laptops to clusters with 100,000+ processor cores + - Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, METIS, UMFPACK and other external software + - Output for a wide variety of visualization platforms. + +Matthias Maier and Peter Munch, +on behalf of the deal.II developer team and many contributors. diff --git a/9.3/announce-short b/9.3/announce-short new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db13872 --- /dev/null +++ b/9.3/announce-short @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Version 9.3.0 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: + - Ten new tutorial programs (steps 19, 66, 68, 71, 72, 74, 76-79) + demonstrating solving a variety of equations and illustrating + functionality in deal.II. + - Experimental support for simplex and mixed meshes. + - Improved flexibility of the particle infrastructure. + - Support for global-coarsening multigrid algorithms. + - Advances in the matrix-free infrastructure. + - Usage of MPI-3.0 shared-memory features to reduce memory footprint. + - Improved support for evaluation and integration at arbitrary points. + +The main features of deal.II are: + - Extensive documentation and 76 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 100,000+ of processor cores + - Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, METIS, UMFPACK and other external software + +The deal.II developers