From fff05d3b013abf6990a4f5c34ba5fea6bfc38c2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido Kanschat Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:14:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] cleaned up git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@9314 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/news/news.html | 267 ------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 267 deletions(-) diff --git a/deal.II/doc/news/news.html b/deal.II/doc/news/news.html index 40d3d19747..8d82408e51 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/news/news.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/news/news.html @@ -41,18 +41,6 @@ href="4.0.0-vs-5.0.0.html" target="body">here. -
- 2004/04/12: New example program for PETSc classes and - parallel computing -
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- The step-17 example program shows how to use the new PETSc wrapper - classes, and how to do large-scale computations with up to many - millions of unknowns on a cluster of computers. This program shows - that deal.II is well-suited for truly massive parallel - computations. -
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2004/03/08: Interfaces to PETSc and METIS
@@ -70,31 +58,6 @@ compiler version 7.41. -
- 2003/08/19: Dependency generation accelerated -
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- The script that generates dependency information between - sources and headers for Makefiles has been rewritten in C++, - after the old perl script became too slow with the growth of - the project. The new script is 2-5 times faster than the old one. -
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- 2003/04/30: New report on Nedelec elements -
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- The next major version of the library will have support for - Nedelec elements for H-curl approximations of, for example, - the Maxwell equations. They were jointly implemented by - Wolfgang Bangerth and Anna Schneebeli of the University of - Basel, Switzerland, who has also contributed a - report on the - derivation and use of these elements. It is available from the - documentation - page. -
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2003/04/27: deal.II now exceeds of 200,000 lines of code @@ -105,20 +68,6 @@ 3000 lines of code per month. -
- 2003/02/06: A new multithreading scheme -
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- A new multithreading scheme has been put into place; it has - essentially the same functionality as the previous one, but - is simpler and more intuitive to use. It also allows to call - functions on a new thread that return values, and later - retrieve the returned value when the thread has finished. Some - documentation of the scheme can be found - on this - page. -
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2003/01/24: deal.II runs on AIX 5.1
@@ -143,27 +92,6 @@ Intel icc 7.0 compiler. -
- 2002/11/27: Modified Incomplete Cholesky decomposition -
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- There is now a Modified Incomplete Cholesky (MIC) decomposition in - deal.II, which has been kindly contributed by - Stephen Kolaroff. -
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- 2002/10/14: Red Hat's gcc 2.96 supported -
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- deal.II can now also be built with Red Hat's gcc 2.96 version. This - should make it easier for users of Red Hat 7.x distributions, since - they will no longer have to up- or downgrade their - compilers. However, some problems remain; for more information, refer - to the Frequently Asked - Questions section. -
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2002/06/28: deal.II 64-bit ready
@@ -174,34 +102,6 @@ IA64 systems. -
- 2002/06/17: New report on assembling matrices -
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- There is now - a new report - on assembling matrices available from the - documentation - page. The main focus is assembling of matrices for - vector-valued problems, where shape functions are - vector-valued, and may have only one or more non-zero vector - components. -
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- 2002/06/10: Supporting framework for vector-valued - finite elements committed -
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- deal.II supports vector-valued finite - elements for a long time, but only by composing them of - scalar elements. This excluded Nedelec or Raviart-Thomas - type elements, for which every shape function is - vector-valued and non-zero in all components. Support for - such elements is now available, and will be part of the next - version. -
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2002/06/06: Version 3.4 released
@@ -221,41 +121,6 @@ optimized code for Intel's new IA-64 architecture. -
- 2002/05/05: New example program demonstrating - duality based error estimators -
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- The step-14 example program in the tutorial demonstrates the - use of duality based error estimation strategies which have - been the focus of the Heidelberg group (from which the main - authors come) for the last years. Some more strategies for - modular and extensible programming are also discussed. -
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- 2002/04/30: Multi-threading support using POSIX -
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- In all previous versions, deal.II used - the ACE (Adaptive Communications Environment) - library to support cross-platform threading - facilities. While this is still supported, the default way - is now to use the POSIX threading functions that are - available on many systems. -
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- 2002/04/16: New example program showing - software design practices for finite element programs -
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- The new step-13 example program in the tutorial explains a - number of techniques to write modular and extensible finite - element software. -
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2002/03/07: New web home www.dealii.org and new email addresses @@ -270,17 +135,6 @@ bookmarks and mail addresses accordingly. -
- 2002/02/11: New support for Tecplot binary output -
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- Benjamin Shelton Kirk contributed binary - Tecplot support. - This feature can be used to create more efficient data files - in the Tecplot FEBLOCK finite element format. For more information - look here. -
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2002/02/01: Version 3.3 released
@@ -302,39 +156,6 @@ with a rate almost constant at 3000 lines of code per month. -
- 2002/01/30: New output formats OpenDX and Tecplot -
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- Guido Kanschat and Benjamin Shelton Kirk contributed output - for OpenDX and Tecplot graphics formats, which are now - supported along a long list of other graphics - format. Switching output formats is possible at run time of - applications. -
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- 2001/12/07: Memory allocation and access checked - with purify -
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- We checked all example and test programs as well as a number of - large applications against the memory checker - purify. Only three memory leaks were found and - fixed. No invalid memory accesses were found. We believe - that no major memory leaks exist in the library any more. -
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- 2001/11/21: New example program demonstrating - discontinuous Galerkin methods -
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- A new example program (step-12 of the tutorial) explains the - assembling of matrices arising in discontinuous Galerkin - methods. -
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2001/09/28: Version 3.2 released
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- 2001/09/24: Eulerian mapping -
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- Michael Stadler has kindly provided an implementation of - Eulerian mappings, i.e. a mapping between unit cell and real - space that depends on a given vector field. -
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2001/07/06: Compaq's cxx compiler supported
@@ -394,20 +206,6 @@ page. -
- 2001/03/06: Support for arbitrary mappings -
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- The finite element classes have been redesigned from scratch - to allow for arbitrary mappings, as well as for elements - that depend on the actual cell shape, such as edge - elements. Presently, we have continuous and discontinous - Lagrange elements of arbitrary order implemented, as well as - polynomial mappings between unit and real cell of arbitrary - order. There is also a cubic C1 mapping - implemented. -
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2001/02/26: Support for Subroutines from the Harwell Subroutine Library (HSL) @@ -434,50 +232,6 @@ here. -
- 2001/01/16: Correct namespace std:: - scoping -
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- All identifiers that the C++ standard (see - this page for the public draft -- the - standard itself is not available online for copyright reasons) - mandates to be in namespace std:: are correctly - prefixed by the namespace name. While previous gcc compilers - accepted these names also without the prefix, gcc 3.0 will - require them, as do some commercial compilers. -
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- 2000/11/27: Memory consumption monitoring -
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- Almost all classes in the library that store significant - amounts of data now have a function - memory_consumption that returns an - estimate of the amount of memory (in bytes) used up by this - class. These functions may be used to track down where memory - bottlenecks are located. -
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- 2000/08/30: New report on dimension - independent programming -
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- There is now a - new report available online on the basic - ideas of dimension independent programming, as done in - deal.II using all this - `template <int dim>' stuff. This report - is in fact an article in the proceeding of the IMACS - conference (see the publications page for full bibliographical - reference, it is publication 2000/4). -
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2000/08/07: deal.II 3.0.1
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- 2000/06/28: kdoc2 -
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- Our API documentation is now generated by - kdoc2, the successor of the - kdoc1 script that was used - previously. The generated pages are now much nicer and - should also present a clearer view of the information - contained. -
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- 2000/04/14: New multithreading scheme -
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- The new multithreading scheme is now in - place; furthermore, there is a corresponding report available - (full text). -
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2000/04/13: deal.II 3.0 announced
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