Section: New Software and Platforms

MUMPS

Participants : Patrick Amestoy, Alfredo Buttari, Jean-Yves L'Excellent [correspondent] , Chiara Puglisi, Wissam M. Sid-Lakhdar, Bora Uçar.

Mumps (for MUltifrontal Massively Parallel Solver) see http://mumps-solver.org is a software package for the solution of large sparse systems of linear equations. It implements a direct method, the so called multifrontal method; it is a parallel code capable of exploiting distributed-memory computers as well as multithreaded libraries; its main originalities are its numerical robustness (including partial threshold pivoting in distributed-memory environment) and its wide range of features.

The latest public release is Mumps 4.10.0 (May 2011); the new release is scheduled for February 2015 and will be under the Cecill-C licence, following an agreement between CERFACS, CNRS, ENS Lyon, INPT, Inria and University of Bordeaux.