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Elemental 0.84 Release Candidate 1

11 May 21:53
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Documentation:
[HTML] http://libelemental.org/documentation/0.84-rc1/
[PDF] http://libelemental.org/documentation/elem-0.84-rc1.pdf

The significant changes since release 0.83 are listed below.

New Functionality

Fundamental additions

  • Low-rank Cholesky up-/down-dating (CholMod)
  • Rank-one updates to LU factorizations (LUMod)
  • Added Generalized RQ and QR factorizations and associated General Linear Model (GLM) and Equality-constrained Least Squares (LSE) solvers
  • Pseudospectral computations can now be driven by various kernels, including
    multi-shift Hessenberg/(quasi-)triangular solves. There is also now support a
    variety of configurations for outputting snapshots of the results
  • Multi-shift Hessenberg solves (MultiShiftHessSolve)
  • Multi-shift quasi-triangular solves (MultiShiftQuasiTrsm)
  • Quasi-triangular solves (QuasiTrsv/QuasiTrsm)
  • Hyperbolic Householder transforms
  • Basic support for a block version of DistMatrix (BlockDistMatrix)
  • Support for parallel Schur decompositions via ScaLAPACK's Hessenberg QR algs.
  • Support for redistributing between DistMatrix and BlockDistMatrix [MC,MR] dists.
  • All user-level routines now use permutation vectors instead of pivot vectors
  • Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) implementations of Basis Pursuit, Linear and Quadratic Programs, and Sparse Inverse Covariance Selection

Minor/incremental improvements

  • Added {lq,rq,qr}::SolveAfter
  • Added SymmetricSolve and HermitianSolve
  • Support for converting real (quasi-triangular) Schur forms to complex
    (triangular) form
  • Support for computing the eigenvalues of quasi-triangular matrices
  • LQ/QR/RQ factorizations now force positive (or zero) diagonal entries in the
    resulting triangular matrix
  • Grid now supports both row-major and column-major orderings
  • Support for diagonal scalings of trapezoidal matrices (DiagonalScaleTrapezoid)
  • Added Global{Col,Row} and Local{Col,Row}Offset member functions to DistMatrix
  • Norm and Max now support more data distributions
  • Min and Max implementations (which do not use the absolute values)
  • Added Bull's Head, Hatano-Nelson, random Helmholtz Green's, Trefethen,
    Triangle, and Whale matrices.

Instrumentation/visualization/testing

  • More file formats for Read and Write (e.g., ASCII and MATRIX_MARKET)
  • Display windows are now strictly sized according to the size of the matrix

Maintenance

Library bugfixes

  • Fixed several small memory leaks in Grid
  • AbstractDistMatrix::Empty() now recomputes shifts to ensure the matrix is kept
    in a legal state
  • Moves of non-views to views are now converted to copies
  • Fixed deflation bug in PMRRR when no eigenvectors are requested
  • Fixed bugs in ApplyPackedReflectors, QuasiDiagonalScale, TriangularInverse, Trr, and Trsv

Maintenance/syntax

  • Algorithmic options are now handled via control structures with default
    constructors
  • Preprocessor definitions and macros now namespaced with "ELEM"
  • Grid argument to DistMatrix::[Locked]Attach was moved before the dependent
    alignment arguments
  • Added a 'Mod' routine which supports modular arithmetic with negative integers
  • Copy assignments now return non-const references
  • Move constructors are now "noexcept"
  • Checks were added to ensure DistMatrix views are not improperly aligned
  • PMRRR (and therefore Elemental) no longer requires a Fortran compiler to build
  • Renamed "ShiftedTrsm" to "MultiShiftTrsm" and placed in BLAS3
  • Renamed "Min" and "Max" to "MinAbs" and "MaxAbs"
  • Renamed "Inertia" to "InertiaType" and "HermitianInertia" to "Inertia"
  • The unnecessary Orientation arguments were removed from QuasiDiagonal{Scale,Solve}
  • All interfaces now assume the usage of 'left' diagonals, which use an offset relative to the diagonal which contains the upper-left entry

Documentation

  • Documentation for BlockDistMatrix is currently missing

Build system

  • Several bugs fixed in detection of support for C++11 random number generation
  • Configuration tests moved into separate files

Python interface

  • The python interface was removed due to SWIG's lack of C++11 support,
    the lack of a maintainer for the interface, and the fact that a manual
    C interface is planned.

Thanks

  • Jed Brown for suggesting the preprocessor namespacing
  • Drew Lewis for reporting the TriangularInverse bug