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.
>   

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