scalapack-2.1.0.txt

ScaLAPACK 2.1.0
===============

Release date: Sat 11/16/19.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
and the Department of Energy under Grant No. NSF-OCI-1032861, NSF-CCF-00444486,
NSF-CNS 0325873, NSF-EIA 0122599, NSF-ACI-0090127, DOE-DE-FC02-01ER25478,
DOE-DE-FC02-06ER25768.

ScaLAPACK is a software package provided by Univ. of Tennessee, Univ. of
California, Berkeley, and Univ. of Colorado Denver.


1. GitHub repository
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https://github.com/Reference-ScaLAPACK/scalapack


2. Support and questions
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http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/


3. ScaLAPACK 2.1.0: What's new
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ScaLAPACK 2.1.0 contains:
 
- *New robust ScaLAPACK routine for computing the QR factorization with column pivoting* by Zvonimir Bujanovic and Zlatko Drmac [link:http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawnspdf/lawn296.pdf[Download Lawn 296]]

 - MPI-3+ updates required by Open MPI 4

 - Improve accuracy of Frobenius norm by making intermediate column sums
 
 - miscellaneous minor bug fixes

 - Improve cmake shared library support



3. External Contributors
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- Zvonimir Bujanovic

- Zlatko Drmac

4. Thanks
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Thanks for bug-report/patches/suggestions to: 

- Bjorn Adlerborn

- Dmitry Baksheev (Intel)

- Aurelien Bouteiller

- Chris Bradley

- Jed Brown

- Eugene Chereshnev (Intel)

- Mark Gates (University of Tennessee, USA)

- Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee, USA)

- Nick Papior

- Jack Poulson

- zerothi
 

5. Developer list
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.Principal Investigators

    * Jim Demmel (University of California,  Berkeley, USA)
    * Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA)
    * Julien Langou (University of Colorado Denver, USA)

.LAPACK developers involved in this release

    * Julie Langou (University of Tennessee, USA)