[CIG-ALL] deal.II 7.1 released

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

Version 7.1 of deal.II, the object-oriented finite element library awarded the
J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, has been released. It is
available for free under an OpenSource license from the deal.II home-page at

                   http://www.dealii.org/

This version has a large number of enhancements:
- A tutorial program (step-32) demonstrating the solution of the Boussinesq
  equation on hundreds or thousands of processors
- A tutorial program (step-46) solving a fluid-structure interaction problem
  and showing how to implement problems in which different equations hold in
  different parts of the domain
- Improved support for massively large computations and for multiphysics
  problems throughout the library
- Support for serialization of most classes to allow checkpoint/restart
- More robust interfaces to Trilinos and PETSc
- More than 100 other changes and bug fixes throughout the library.

All main features of the previous versions have been continued and improved:
- Support for dimension-independent programming
- Extensive documentation and 40 working example programs
- Locally refined adaptive meshes
- Multigrid support
- A zoo of different finite elements
- Fast linear algebra
- Built-in support for shared memory and distributed parallel computing,
  scaling from laptops to clusters with 10,000s of processor cores
- Interfaces to Trilinos, PETSc, METIS, UMFPACK and other external software
- Output for a wide variety of visualization platforms.

Wolfgang Bangerth, Guido Kanschat, Timo Heister, and many other contributors.

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