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Re: [francois.pellegrini@xxxxxxxx: Scotch 5.0.6 is out !]

 

Very good! /J

> FYI. Note in particular the following:
>
>   Revision 5.0.6 is meant to be the last update of version 5.0 before
>   the release of the upcoming version 5.1, which will offer parallel
>   graph partitioning features.
>
> --
> Anders
>
>
> We announce the release, as libre/free software, of revision 5.0.6 of
> the SCOTCH and PT-SCOTCH software package and library for graph and
> mesh/hypergraph partitioning, static mapping, and sequential and
> parallel sparse matrix block ordering.
>
> Revision 5.0.6 provides several new features :
>
> - the possibility, for users who have multi-process or multi-thread
>   support, to handle compressed graphs on the fly, both on input or on
>   output. This can save a lot  of disk space and  communication time  when
> loading
>   graph data from remote storage. This feature is available for the
>   sequential and parallel  versions of the Scotch  binaries. It can
> handle gzip,
>   bzip2 and lzma formats, depending on available libraries and on
> compile-time
>   flags;
>
> - an interface to order sub-graphs of a given graph while accounting
>   for its halo adjacency;
>
> - an explicit handling of 32- and 64-bit integer types by  means of
>   specific macros;
>
> - the support of the Matrix Market graph format in the graph
>   converter.
>
> Revision 5.0.6 is meant to be the last update of version 5.0 before
> the release of the upcoming version 5.1, which will offer parallel
> graph partitioning features.
>
>
> What is SCOTCH
> ==============
>
> SCOTCH is a project carried out at the Laboratoire Bordelais de
> Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI) of the Universite Bordeaux I.  It is
> part of project ScAlApplix of INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest. Its goal is
> to apply graph theory, with a ``divide and conquer'' approach, to
> scientific computing problems such as graph partitioning, static
> mapping, and sparse matrix ordering.
>
>
> How to get SCOTCH
> =================
>
> Scotch can be freely downloaded, under the terms of the CeCILL-C
> license.  To ease the development, diffusion, and circulation of
> information regarding the SCOTCH project, most of its resources are
> now hosted on the InriaGforge
> platform provided by INRIA. Please refer to the SCOTCH web page at :
>
> http://www.labri.fr/~pelegrin/scotch/
>
> for more information. People interested in the SCOTCH project are
> welcome to subscribe to the "scotch-announces" mailing list at :
>
> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/scotch-announces
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