From 6836658c97cd8646efe088d49cf2ebac349d7e38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wolf Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:57:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] . git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@9179 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.0 | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.0 diff --git a/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.0 b/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..74afc23ae0 --- /dev/null +++ b/deal.II/doc/RELEASE/announce-5.0 @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +After almost one year of development, version 5.0 of the deal.II +object-oriented finite element library has been released. It is +available from the deal.II home-page at + + http://www.dealii.org + +Version 5.0 is a major step for this library. The most important change +is the addition of interfaces to the PETSc library to provide a second +set of linear system support classes besides the original deal.II ones. +Via PETSc and an interface to METIS, parallel finite element computations +on clusters of computers have become as simple as sequential ones. +Through this, the library has proven to support computations with more +than 10 million unknowns. + +In addition to this, the most noteworthy changes are: +- Two new example programs, demonstrating one-dimensional nonlinear + problems and parallel computations with PETSc +- The use of doxygen for the generation of our several-thousand pages + strong documentation, with significantly better cross-linking between + pages +- Much better support for three-dimensional computations. Several + topological restrictions on unstructured 3d meshes have been lifted, + and a number of long-standing bugs have been fixed. We can now also + read in 3d meshes with several 100,000 cells in a few seconds +- Support for Raviart-Thomas elements in 2d and 3d. +- Support for more compilers and operating systems + +A comprehensive list of new features and fixed bugs can be found at + http://www.dealii.org/news/4.0.0-vs-5.0.0.html + +All main features of the previous versions have been continued and +improved: +- Support for dimension-independent programming +- Extensive documentation and working example programs +- Locally refined grids +- A zoo of different finite elements +- Fast linear algebra +- Built-in support for symmetric multi-processing (SMP) +- Output for a variety of visualization platforms. + +deal.II can be downloaded for free and is distributed under an Open +Source license. + + +Wolfgang Bangerth, Ralf Hartmann, Guido Kanschat, the deal.II team -- 2.39.5