[petsc-users] Release of petsc-3.4

[Michael Povolotskyi]

Thank you for the info.
What is exactly "better encapsulation and better control of symbols"?
Michael.


On 05/14/2013 01:51 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the release of PETSc version 3.4 at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc
>
>    The major changes and updates can be found at
>
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc/documentation/changes/34.html
>
>    We recommend upgrading to PETSc 3.4 immediately. As always please report problems to
> petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov and ask questions at petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov
>
>     Notable new features include a system for managing unstructured grids with PDE solvers in DMPlex.
> Capability and performance improvements to the algebraic multigrid preconditioners PCGAMG, many
> new nonlinear solvers in SNES, many improvements to the ODE solvers in TS including the new
> TSEIMEX, and support for parallel dense linear algebra using  MatElemental.  The library also
> has better encapsulation and better control of symbols.
>
>     If you are using the threaded version of PETSc or PETSc on GPUs you should continue to work with
> petsc-dev since this code is too much in flux to be contained in a release.
>
>     This release includes contributions from
>
> Brad Aagaard
> Shri Abhyankar
> Mark Adams
> Satish Balay
> Blaise Bourdin
> Jed Brown
> Peter Brune
> Emil Constantinescu
> Lois Curfman McInnes
> Lisandro Dalcin
> Wenjun Deng
> Sean Farley
> John Fettig
> Glenn Hammond
> Shao-Ching Huang
> Tobin Isaac
> Chetan Jhurani
> Dmitry Karpeev
> Matthew Knepley
> Michael Kraus
> Patrick Lacasse
> Rémi Lacroix
> Michael Lange
> Jungho Lee
> Paul Mullowney
> Adrián Németh
> Jack Poulson
> Jose Roman
> Karl Rupp
> Patrick Sanan
> Barry Smith
> Tim Tautges
> Richard Tran Mills
> Stefano Zampini
> Hong Zhang (ANL/IIT)
> Hong Zhang (Virginia Tech)
> Xuan Zhou
>
>   Thanks
>
>     Barry
>


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