Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #52. It automatically reports recently merged features and discussions about the deal.II finite element library.
## Below you find a list of recently proposed or merged features: #7330: ScaLAPACKMatrix: improve documentation (proposed by BenBrands) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7330 #7329: use std::string instead of char * (proposed by BenBrands) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7329 #7327: Added cell->is_locally_owned() in project_boundary_values_div_conforming (proposed by JonMatthewsFCAS) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7327 #7325: Minor doc update to class parallel::CellWeights. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7325 #7322: Tests: Fix race condition between mpi and non-mpi variants (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7322 #7320: Fixes compilation issues when using altivec vectorization. (proposed by dsambit; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7320 #7319: Disallow C++17 support when compiling with CUDA 10 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7319 #7317: Tests: fe/fe_enriched_color_07 - use a better preconditioner (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7317 #7316: Tests: base/reference.cc - avoid "use after scope" (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7316 #7313: Tests: base/utilities_13.cc - workaround for clang (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7313 #7312: Tests: base/utilities_13 - avoid an arithmetic exception with clang (proposed by tamiko) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7312 #7311: Restrict examples that require a working FunctionParser class (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7311 #7310: add DynamicSparsityPattern::compute_Tmmult_pattern() by moving existi... (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7310 #7307: Only declare FunctionParser if there is muparser support (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7307 #7305: Make 'CellWeights' available for any 'p::Triangulation'. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7305 #7304: Refactored FECollection::find_least_face_dominating_fe_in_collection(). (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7304 #7303: Allow using CUDA-aware MPI (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7303 #7302: ScaLAPACKMatrix::reinit() and one constructor: pass shared_ptr by value (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7302 #7301: add constructor for ScaLAPACKMatrix (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7301 #7299: Fix DEAL_II_MPI_CONST_CAST (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7299 #7298: Fix clang-tidy complaints (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7298 #7295: Boost rtree wrapper (proposed by luca-heltai; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7295 #7291: [9.0.1] Redo #6658 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7291 #7290: Update the documentation of FECollection::find_last...(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7290 #7289: [9.0.1] Redo #6929 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7289 #7288: Do not use deprecated function Threads::this_thread_id(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7288 #7286: [9.0.1] Redo #7270 (proposed by tamiko; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7286 #7285: Deprecate Threads::n_existing_threads() and Threads::this_thread_id(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7285 #7284: Introduced FECollection::find_most_face_dominating_fe_in_subset(). (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7284 #7283: Refactor AD drivers helper base 01 (proposed by jppelteret) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7283 #7280: add inverse_Hilbert_space_filling_curve (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7280 #7279: [9.0.1] Take over #6769 (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7279 #7278: Update author list of hp::DoFHandler. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7278 #7277: Add a test for the parallel hp implementation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7277 #7275: Add a variadic constructor to hp::QCollection. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7275 #7274: Make documentation of hp::FECollection clearer. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7274 #7272: Set vertex ownership based on FE domination. (proposed by marcfehling) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7272 #7268: adapt block size in save_parallel (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7268 #7264: Introduced CellWeights class for load balancing by the number of DoFs. (proposed by marcfehling; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7264 #7259: use const cast for old OpenMPI version (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/7259 #6754: Fix normal_vector crash for small cells (proposed by tjhei; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6754 #6629: Implement VectorizedArray for Altivec/VSX (IBM Power) (proposed by kronbichler; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/6629 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #7331: Problems with step-16 (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7331 #7328: Compilation fails when DEAL_II_WITH_CUDA is combined with ALTIVEC vectorization (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7328 #7326: Support new gmsh-4 mesh format (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7326 #7324: Cannot configure deal.II 9.0.0 with custom Boost on Windows (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7324 #7323: Header files for x86 SIMD (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7323 #7321: Outdated comment in vectorization.h (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7321 #7318: Tests: Changing the floating point environment in tests without setting FENV_ACCESS results in undefined behavior (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7318 #7315: Request cell weighting functionality for Zoltan with p::s::Triangulation (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7315 #7314: base/reference.debug - stack-use-after-scope causes segfault with clang (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7314 #7309: consistently use std::string for filenames (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7309 #7308: fe/fe_enriched_color_07.mpirun=2.debug fails on (almost) every configuration (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7308 #7306: Open CASCADE macro interferring CUDA::Handle (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7306 #7300: OpenMP as an alternative to TBB (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7300 #7297: Meta issue for deal.II 6th Users and Developers workshop. (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7297 #7296: GridOut::write_vtk no longer useful (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7296 #7294: mention how to use pArpack (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7294 #7293: Fails to find the ADOL-C library: no matching conversion for static_cast from 'const adouble' to 'double' (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7293 #7292: Doesn't link with arpack (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7292 #7287: Rename hp::FECollection::find_least_face_dominating_fe() (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7287 #7282: 9.0.1 release (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7282 #7281: Extend CellWeights class to parallel::shared::Triangulation (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7281 #7276: Feature request: import ABAQUS inp file for 3D beam elements (spacedim = 3, dim = 1) (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7276 #7273: hp::DoFHandler does not set active_fe_index on coarsened cells. (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7273 #7267: package.py says that arpack depends on MPI, but configure says that it depends on lapack (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/7267 A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_after_8_5_0.html. Thanks for being part of the community! Let us know about questions, problems, bugs or just share your experience by writing to [email protected], or by opening issues or pull requests at https://www.github.com/dealii/dealii. Additional information can be found at https://www.dealii.org/. -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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