new PETSc release

[Satish Balay]

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Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc)
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              http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc

We are pleased  to announce the  release of  the PETSc 2.1.2  parallel
software   libraries  for the  implicit  solution  of PDEs and related
problems.


A list of new features and changes in PETSc is available via
     http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/docs/changes

these include
1) Added support for Spooles parallel sparse direct factorization
2) Added support for HYPRE preconditioners (including PILUT, Euclid, BoomerAMG)

As always, please  send bug reports,  questions, and requests  for new
features to petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov. 

Thanks for your continued support.

The PETSc developers,
Satish, Kris, Bill, Dinesh, Matt, Lois, Barry and Hong