[SciPy-User] ANN: SOLVCON 0.1

[Yung-Yu Chen]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce version 0.1 of SOLVCON.  SOLVCON is a Python-based,
multi-physics software framework for solving first-order hyperbolic PDEs.

The source tarball can be downloaded at
http://bitbucket.org/yungyuc/solvcon/downloads .  More information can be
found at http://solvcon.net/ .

This release marks a milestone of SOLVCON.  Future development of SOLVCON will
focus on production use.  The planned directions include (i) the high-order
CESE method, (ii) improving the scalability by consolidating the
distributed-memory parallel code, (iii) expanding the capabilities of the
existing solver kernels, and (iv) incorporating more physical processes.

New features:

- Glue BCs are added.  A pair of collocated BCs can now be glued together to
  work as an internal interface.  The glued BCs helps to dynamically turn on or
  off the BC pair.
- ``solvcon.kerpak.cuse`` series solver kernels are changed to use OpenMP for
  multi-threaded computing.  They were using a thread pool built-in SOLVCON for
  multi-threading.  OpenMP makes multi-threaded functions more flexible in
  argument specification.
- Add the ``soil/`` directory for providing building helpers for GCC 4.6.1.
  Note, the name ``gcc/`` is deliberately avoided for the directory, because of
  a bug in gcc itself (bug id 48306
  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48306 ).
- Add ``-j`` command line option for building dependencies in the ``ground/``
  directory and the ``soil/`` directory.  Note that ATLAS doesn't work with
  ``make -j N``.

Bug-fix:

- METIS changes its download URL.  Modify SConstruct accordingly.

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Yung-Yu Chen
http://solvcon.net/yyc/
+1 (614) 859 2436