DUNE 1.0 - Release notes

Changes to Previous Releases

Since this is the very first release there are no changes that we can list. But here is a short list of features that the DUNE 1.0 release provides.

Six different Grid Implementations:
- SGrid: A structured grid in n space dimensions
- YaspGrid: A structured parallel grid in n space dimensions
- UGGrid: The grid manager of the UG toolbox
- AlbertaGrid: The grid manager of the Alberta toolbox
- OneDGrid: A sequential locally adaptive grid in one space dimension
- ALUSimplexGrid, ALUCubeGrid: A hexahedral, tetrahedral, and triangular grid with nonconforming refinement including parallelization with dynamic load-balancing.

Linear Algebra
DUNE contains ISTL (the Iterative Solver Template Library) for powerful linear algebra. The main features are:
- Abstractions for block matrices (e.g. compressed row storage and block diagonal) and block vectors
- Block structure arbitrarily nestable
- High performance through generic programming
- Expression templates for BLAS1 routines
- Several standard solvers

Quadrature Formulas
- Quadrature rules for all common element types
- Rules for hypercubes up to order 19, for simplices up to order 12

Input/Output
- Visualization using GRAPE
- Output in Data Explorer format
- Reading and writing in the AmiraMesh format
- Reading grid files in the grid independent Dune grid format DGF
- Reading simplex grids through DGF constructed using the tools Tetgen/Triangle (http://tetgen.berlios.de, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html)
- Subsampling of high-order functions
- Write grids and data in the format of the visualization toolkit (vtk)

The DUNE core developers have tested DUNE on the following platforms.

We have also gotten reports of successful installations on various flavours of Mac OSX.

For known bugs, please take a look at the bug tracking system and the documentation!