Thank you all for the great work! Does that mean, p4est has been released? Congratulations, Carsten!
Wolfgang Bangerth wrote: > All, > after more than two years of work by Timo Heister, Martin Kronbichler (who > deserve most of the credit) and myself, Timo merged the branch on which we > have implemented the necessary functionality to completely distribute meshes > across many processors. Using this, deal.II can now solve problems on > billions (!) of cells and with billions of unknowns if you have enough > processors available (we tested this on up to 16,000). The new step-40 > tutorial program explains how to do this -- it is a variant of step-6 that > requires only some 25 extra lines of code. A (submitted) paper that describes > this functionality can be found here: > http://iamcs.tamu.edu/file_dl.php?type=preprint&preprint_id=237 > I must admit that it's been quite a while since I was so excited about new > stuff in deal.II! > > I want to give thanks to Carsten Burstedde. The functionality above builds on > his p4est library to manage fully distributed meshes on thousands, tens of > thousands, and more processors. Carsten helped us out whenever we needed > functionality in p4est and generously provided us with his experience in > implementing algorithms on extremely large clusters. > > Best > W. > _______________________________________________ dealii mailing list http://poisson.dealii.org/mailman/listinfo/dealii
