[aspect-devel] Aspect 0.1 released

[Timo Heister]

Just a comment:

As a user of deal.II it might be interesting to look at the source of
this project for several reasons:
- it is larger and more complex than a typical tutorial step and shows
how to structure a larger project.
- it shows many advanced features over step-32 (we started with that),
for example snapshot/resume of a running parallel computation
- use of complex visualization

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Wolfgang Bangerth
<bangerth at math.tamu.edu> wrote:
>
> After lots of developing, debugging, and documenting, we have finally
> released Aspect version 0.1. Aspect -- short for Advanced Solver for
> Problems in Earth's ConvecTion -- is a code intended as a simulator for
> thermally driven convection, for example in the earth mantle. Its design
> goals are:
> - Use of modern numerical methods, such as (i) higher order finite
>   elements, (ii) adaptivity, (iii) efficient and scalable solvers
>   and preconditioners, (iv) parallelization to hundreds of processors
>   and beyond.
> - Reuse of widely used, well tested library to provide the underlying
>   numerical framework; specifically, Aspect builds on deal.II, Trilinos
>   and p4est.
> - Extensibility: It should be easy to replace the geometry model or the
>   rheology, as well as a host of other things that characterize a
>   problem under consideration.
>
> The Aspect homepage is located at
>   http://dealii.org/aspect/
> where you can also find links to the tar-file for download as well as to
> the manual. We look forward to your feedback!
>
> Best
>   Wolfgang Bangerth
>   Timo Heister
>   Thomas Geenen
>   Martin Kronbichler
>
> PS: This being version 0.1, you may wonder what's still missing. By and
> large, we are quite confident in the correctness of the code as well as
> with the performance of it. Some of the things that didn't make it into
> this first release are:
> - Some sections in the manual aren't written yet.
> - There currently aren't enough cookbook examples.
> - The current algorithm is using an operator splitting technique to deal
>   with nonlinear material laws. This will ultimately be rewritten to use
>   a Newton-type method.
> We hope to get to these points in the near future.
>
> --
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> Wolfgang Bangerth               email:            bangerth at math.tamu.edu
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Timo Heister
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