Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the new features of the finite element library deal.II version 8.4.
4 Acknowledgments
deal.II is a world-wide project with dozens of contributors around the globe. Other than the authors of this paper, the following people contributed code to this release: Daniel Arndt, Mauro Bardelloni, Alistair Bentley, Andrea Bonito, Claire Bruna-Rosso, Krzysztof Bzowski, Praveen Chandrashekar, Conrad Clevenger, Patrick Esser, Rene Gassmoeller, Arezou Ghesmati, Maien Hamed, Alexander Grayver, Lukas Korous, Aslan Kosakian, Adam Kosik, Konstantin Ladutenko, Jean-Paul Pelteret, Lei Qiao, Gennadiy Rishin, Angel Rodriguez, Alberto Sartori, Daniel Shapero, Jason Sheldon, Jan Stebel, Florian Sonner, Zhen Tao, Heikki Virtanen, Daniel Weygand.
Their contributions are much appreciated!
Funding
deal.II and its developers are financially supported through a variety of funding sources. W. Bangerth and B. Turcksin were partially supported by the National Science Foundation under award OCI-1148116 as part of the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program; and by the Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics initiative (CIG), through the National Science Foundation under Award No. EAR-0949446 and The University of California-Davis.
D. Davydov was supported by the ERC Advanced Grant MOCOPOLY and the Competence Network for Technical and Scientific High Performance Computing in Bavaria (KONWIHR).
L. Heltai was partially supported by the project OpenViewSHIP, ‘Sviluppo di un ecosistema computazionale per la progettazione idrodinamica del sistema elica-carena’, financed by Regione FVG-PAR FSC 20072013, Fondo per lo Sviluppo e la Coesione, and by the project TRIM ‘Tecnologia e Ricerca Industriale per la Mobilità Marina’, CTN01-00176-163601, funded by MIUR — Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca.
T. Heister was partially supported by the Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics initiative (CIG), through the National Science Foundation under Award No. EAR-0949446 and The University of California—Davis, and National Science Foundation grant DMS1522191.
G. Kanschat and M. Kronbichler were partially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the project ExaDG. M. Kronbichler also acknowledges the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V. for funding algorithm enhancements by providing computing time on the GCS Supercomputer SuperMUC at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) through project id pr83te.
The Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University has provided hosting services for the deal.II web page and the SVN archive.
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