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 > R?mi Lacroix > Michael Lange > Jungho Lee > Paul Mullowney > Adri?n N?meth > 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 > -- Michael Povolotskyi, PhD Research Assistant Professor Network for Computational Nanotechnology 207 S Martin Jischke Drive Purdue University, DLR, room 441-10 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 phone: +1-765-494-9396 fax: +1-765-496-6026
