[cig-commits] r19182 - in short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable: . doc/releasenotes

brad at geodynamics.org brad at geodynamics.org
Thu Nov 10 16:52:40 PST 2011


Author: brad
Date: 2011-11-10 16:52:40 -0800 (Thu, 10 Nov 2011)
New Revision: 19182

Modified:
   short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable/README
   short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable/doc/releasenotes/announce_v1.6.2.txt
Log:
Final edits to release notes.

Modified: short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable/README
===================================================================
--- short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable/README	2011-11-11 00:03:11 UTC (rev 19181)
+++ short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable/README	2011-11-11 00:52:40 UTC (rev 19182)
@@ -119,13 +119,13 @@
 KNOWN ISSUES
 
   The custom line search used with the PETSc nonlinear solver (SNES)
-  has difficulty handling loading cases. In cases where the direction
-  of the line search tends to be nearly orthogonal to the residual,
-  the rate of convergence in the SNES iterations is extremely slow. In
-  other cases the nonlinear solver gets stuck in a local minimum. We
-  plan to improve the line search algorithm in a future release in
-  order to resolve this issue and improve the rate of convergence in
-  spontaneous rupture simulations.
+  has difficulty handling some loading cases. In cases where the
+  direction of the line search tends to be nearly orthogonal to the
+  residual, the rate of convergence in the SNES iterations is
+  extremely slow. In other cases the nonlinear solver gets stuck in a
+  local minimum. We plan to improve the line search algorithm in a
+  future release in order to resolve this issue and improve the rate
+  of convergence in spontaneous rupture simulations.
 
 
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Modified: short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable/doc/releasenotes/announce_v1.6.2.txt
===================================================================
--- short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable/doc/releasenotes/announce_v1.6.2.txt	2011-11-11 00:03:11 UTC (rev 19181)
+++ short/3D/PyLith/branches/v1.6-stable/doc/releasenotes/announce_v1.6.2.txt	2011-11-11 00:52:40 UTC (rev 19182)
@@ -65,10 +65,10 @@
 KNOWN ISSUES
 
   The custom line search used with the PETSc nonlinear solver (SNES)
-  has difficulty handling loading cases. In cases where the direction
-  of the line search tends to be nearly orthogonal to the residual,
-  the rate of convergence in the SNES iterations is extremely slow. In
-  other cases the nonlinear solver gets stuck in a local minimum. We
-  plan to improve the line search algorithm in a future release in
-  order to resolve this issue and improve the rate of convergence in
-  spontaneous rupture simulations.
+  has difficulty handling some loading cases. In cases where the
+  direction of the line search tends to be nearly orthogonal to the
+  residual, the rate of convergence in the SNES iterations is
+  extremely slow. In other cases the nonlinear solver gets stuck in a
+  local minimum. We plan to improve the line search algorithm in a
+  future release in order to resolve this issue and improve the rate
+  of convergence in spontaneous rupture simulations.



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