From: bangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:14:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention SPEC CPU 2006.
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Mention SPEC CPU 2006.

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diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/news.html b/deal.II/doc/news/news.html
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@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
           <strong>2007/07/16: Wilkinson Prize</strong>
       </dt>
       <dd>
-          The principal authors of deal.II&mdash;Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf
-	  Hartmann and Guido Kanscht&mdash;have received the <a
+          The principal authors of <acronym>deal.II</acronym>&mdash;Wolfgang
+	  Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann and Guido Kanscht&mdash;have received the <a
 	  href="http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/wilkinson/award/">J. H. Wilkinson
 	  Prize for Numerical Software</a> for their creation of and work on
 	  the deal.II library. The prize committee particularly noted the
@@ -78,6 +78,27 @@
           and a nonlinear variant of it, the sine-Gordon equation.
       </dd>
 
+      <dt>
+          <strong>2006/08/24: <acronym>deal.II</acronym> is now part of the
+	  SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark</strong>
+      </dt>
+      <dd>
+          A modified version of the <acronym>deal.II</acronym> library and the
+	  step-14 tutorial program has been incorporated into the industry
+	  standard <a href="http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/">SPEC CPU 2006</a>
+	  benchmark testsuite that is used to determine the speed of
+	  computers. It is part of the floating point testsuite <a
+	  href="http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/CFP2006/">CFP2006</a> as benchmark
+	  <a
+	  href="http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/447.dealII.html">447.dealII</a>.
+	  <p>
+	  The inclusion of our software into an industry
+	  standard benchmark testsuite will lead to better support of compilers
+	  and machines for the kind of program we write, in particular for
+	  unstructured hierarchical mesh computations. This will in turn
+	  help make our codes run faster on future systems.
+      </dd>
+
       <dt>
           <strong>2006/2/12: step-20 is finished</strong>
       </dt>