Rene Gassmoeller
Hello everyone!
This is deal.II newsletter #95.
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:
#8876: Fix setting host compiler (proposed by masterleinad)
#8875: Bypass vector copy in MatrixFree::cell_loop with MPI (proposed by kronbichler)
#8874: Fix some clang-tidy 9 findings (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8872: Update the GPU matrix-free documentation (2) [WIP] (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8871: Update step-64 (proposed by peterrum)
#8870: Require mpirun when requesting p4est in tests (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8869: Update the description of the Nedelec element. (proposed by bangerth)
#8868: Enable assert again (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8867: Add changelog for #8861 (proposed by dougshidong; merged)
#8866: Fix some clang-tidy 9 findings (proposed by masterleinad)
#8865: Fix failing CUDA tests (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8864: Change 'direction' of make_periodicity_constraint() to 'unsigned int'. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8863: Add missing test output (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8862: Fix a bug introduced in #8783 (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8861: Fix Manifold get_new_point() (proposed by dougshidong; merged)
#8860: Fix SolutionTransfer when coarsening from FE_Nothing (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8859: Document direction parameter for periodic constraints (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8858: add MatrixFree::get_cell_level_and_index() (proposed by jwitte08; merged)
#8857: Extend TensorProductMatrixSymmetricSum (proposed by jwitte08; merged)
#8856: Store Mapping in MatrixFree's MappingInfo (proposed by jwitte08; merged)
#8855: Store 1D quadrature in ShapeInfo (proposed by jwitte08; merged)
#8854: Compute shape_gradients/hessians_collocation in ShapeInfo (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8853: Modify method accessibility in ShapeInfo (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8851: Restructure matrix_free/cuda_tensor_product_kernels.h [WIP] (proposed by peterrum)
#8849: Make p:f:t:Utilities visible in Doxygen (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8848: fix gcc 4.9 warning (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8847: kinematics.h: fix always_inline (proposed by tjhei)
#8846: Avoid dynamic_cast in ghost/artificial cell queries (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#8845: intel: disable const initializer warning (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8844: Rewrite the introduction to the RT element. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8843: Add test for MappingFEField (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8842: Clean up more changelog entries. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8841: fix documentation in DerivativeApproximation (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8840: Initialize n_colors in CUDAWrappers::MatrixFree::AdditionalData (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8839: Merge computation of values and gradients in the matrixfree CUDA code (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8838: Eliminate q_point from functor and other GPU functions (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8837: Update the GPU matrix-free documentation (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8836: Inline functions because of bugs in hipcc (proposed by Rombur; merged)
#8835: Fix boost problems with MSVC (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8834: Add coarsening/refinement capabilities to p:f:t [WIP] (proposed by peterrum)
#8833: Instantiate ConsensusAlgorithmSelector (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8832: Remove std::bind from include (apart from documentation) (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8831: Improve some changelog entries. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8830: Collate changelog entries (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8829: add to documentation of get_coarse_mesh_description() (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8828: Assertion checks the wrong item size. (proposed by dougshidong; merged)
#8827: Improve GridGenerator documentation in a few places. (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8825: Remove std::bind from source (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8823: Remove colon after @note. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8822: Better document parallel::DistributedTriangulationBase. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8821: Improve coding conventions (proposed by drwells; merged)
#8818: Remove std::bind from hp (proposed by masterleinad; merged)
#8817: Do not instantiate CellData for dim=0 (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8815: instantiate TensorProductPolynomials for dim=0 (proposed by tjhei; merged)
#8810: Change the storage type of MG copy indices to table (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#8805: Better document parallel::TriangulationBase. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8802: Some bug fixed in p:f:t (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8783: Clean up compute_vertices_with_ghost_neighbors (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8772: Eliminate MPI all-to-all communication in MPI::Partitioner (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#8770: Document DataPostprocessor for the case of complex-valued solutions. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8769: Make DataPostprocessor work for complex-valued vector-valued problems. (proposed by bangerth; merged)
#8750: Create p:f:ConstructionData by a selected group of processes (proposed by peterrum; merged)
#8739: add functions to access svd u and vt variables (proposed by MFraters; merged)
#8728: Embed vector operations in MatrixFree cell loops (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
#8713: Put implementation details of FEFaceEvaluation into separate file (proposed by kronbichler; merged)
And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions:
#8873 CMake configuration with CUDA/MPI code (opened)
#8852 Performance tests (opened)
#8850 Disagreement between MappingQ and MappingFEField using find_all_active_cells_around_point (opened)
#8826 Does MGMatrixSimple fill in edge_out and edge_in correctly? (opened)
#8820 Better document 'direction' of DoFTools::make_periodicity_constraints (opened and closed)
#8814 Function default constructor in examples and intel compiler (closed)
#8801 Definition of subdomain_id() on serial triangulation (closed)
#8791 undefined references linker errors with intel 19.0.5 (closed)
#8734 Treat periodic neighbors correctly in compute_vertices_with_ghost_neighbors (closed)
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