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ChangeLog

Changes from 5.7.2 to 5.7.3
  • Fixed regression for I/O's larger than 2GB during solve (out-of-core)
  • Fixed size of internal workspace in case of OOC+BLR with ICNTL(37)=1
  • Fix: out-of-range values of ICNTL(58) are treated as 2, as documented
Changes from 5.7.1 to 5.7.2
  • Fixed a bound check error with ICNTL(37)=1 in case of symmetric numerically difficult problems
  • Fixed compilation with -DAVOID_MPI_IN_PLACE
  • Fixed possible access to uninitialized var for SYM=0 + OOC + static pivoting
Changes from 5.7.0 to 5.7.1
  • Fixed dynamic library creation for PORD
  • Avoid need to link with deprecated LAPACK routine [csdz]geqpf
  • Fixed a numerical error with ICNTL(37)=1 in case of numerically difficult problems and very limited workspace
Changes from 5.6.2 to 5.7.0
  • New feature: Evolution of the distributed RHS: exploit sparsity (empty rows)
  • New feature: more efficient multithreading (see ICNTL(48))
  • New feature: Improved null space detection with rank revealing (ICNTL(56))
  • New statistics about pivots and number of swaps
  • Reduced time spent in BLR clustering
  • OOC: add support for files > 2GB to avoid opening too many files
  • Increased various string max sizes: OOC_PREFIX(255), SAVE_PREFIX(255), WRITE_PROBLEM(1023), OOC_TMPDIR(1023), SAVE_DIR(1023),
  • -DMUMPS_SCOTCHIMPORTOMPTHREADS: uses MUMPS OMP threads in SCOTCH
  • Improved size of BLR groups with analysis by blocks
  • Allow for larger N (avoid need for 2*N to fit in a 32-bit integer)
  • Improved performance on small matrices (avoid costly string comparisons when computing RINFO(7,8) and RINFOG(17,18))
  • -DNO_SAVE_RESTORE: suppress SAVE_RESTORE, RINFO(7,8), RINFOG(17,18)
  • Avoid calling MPI_IPROBE during solve in case of a single MPI process
  • MPI_ALLREDUCE workaround in case it fails for large buffers
  • Raise error -55 in case Nloc_RHS>0 on non-working host
  • Raise new error -88 in case of error during SCOTCH ordering
  • Fixed bound-check error in copies for 64 bit integer orderings and empty graph
  • Raise error -69 in case of installation with incorrect integer sizes
  • Compilation with -DNOSCALAPACK: suppress dependency on NUMROC
  • Fix for METIS > 5.1.0: METIS options indices no longer hardcoded
  • Fixed a bug in solve when restarting (JOB=8) with a new process
  • Fixed error with exploit sparsity during fwd phase on reducible matrices and when Scalapack is used
  • Makefiles: introduced SHARED_OPT=-shared to allow defining different option
Changes from 5.6.1 to 5.6.2
  • Fixed time for symbolic factorization
  • Fixed parallel analysis when PAR=0, 1 MPI per node, #MPI not a power of 2
  • -DAVOID_MPI_IN_PLACE avoids MPI_IN_PLACE usage (in case not supported by MPI)
  • Fixed a bug in case of parallel analysis+analysis by blocks+scalapack off
  • Added missing $(PLAT) for libpord in makefile
  • Fixed message printing with error -17
Changes from 5.6.0 to 5.6.1
  • Fixed compatibility of parallel analysis with analysis by blocks/out-of-range
  • Minor fix of INFO(2) value in a case of INFO(1)=-7 with parallel analysis
  • WRITE_PROBLEM: avoid leading space when printing "%%MatrixMarket matrix [..]"
  • Fix incorrect error code -74 instead of -76 (save-restore)
  • Avoid a remaining hard-coded Fortran unit (save-restore)
  • Avoid -Wundef warning in case __STDC_VERSION__ is not defined
  • Avoid calling MPI_IPROBE during factorization in case of a single MPI process (performance improvement on matrices with small fronts)
  • During analysis, write time for symbolic factorization
  • Update GEMMT link in INSTALL file
Changes from 5.5.1 to 5.6.0
  • Analysis by blocks and out-of-range entries compatible with parallel analysis
  • Compact workarray S before solution phase (ICNTL(49)=1,2)
  • JOB=-4 frees data from factorization and keeps results from analysis
  • NEC vector engine version: tuned block low rank and GEMMT usage
  • Reduced memory for symbolic datastructures (order-N arrays, arrowheads)
  • Use new symbolic factorization (column counts) by default (+allow forest in case of Schur)
  • Improved amalgamation algorithm to reduce the number tiny nodes
  • Discard factors option is now compatible with BLR
  • Discard L factors option in case of LU factorization available for in-core
  • Count null negative pivots (INFOG(50))
  • Compilation with -DBLR_MT is no longer needed (see also -DBLR_NOOPENMP)
  • Improve performance of A-1 entries computation when #MPI > 1
  • Fixed risk of hanging in case of OOC error (e.g. disk full)
  • Free internal data earlier (e.g., factors in case of failed factorization, etc.)
  • Avoid setenv/unsetenv on MinGW environments (Scotch versions >= 7)
  • Fix error during ordering when processing matrices of order 1
  • Out-Of-Core, values of ICNTL(22) different from 1 are treated as zero (in-core)
  • BLKPTR ignored when ICNTL(15) < 0 (INFO(1:2)=-57 4 no longer occurs)
  • BLR OpenMP fac_lr.F fix for possible non-increasing scheduling of loop indices
  • Fix: id%LRGROUPS was not nullified in CMUMPS_FREE_ONENTRY_ANA_DRIVER
  • Fixed parameter error 1202 in PDGETRS after restoring a factorization
  • Workaround MPI_SSEND intel MPI 2021.6 issue
  • NEC: Fix MUMPS_WRAP_GINP94 offloading to host
  • Shared libraries: minor update in Makefiles
  • Fixed missing printings of preprocessing constants in mumps_print_defined.F
  • -DNOSCALAPACK: compilation without BLACS/ScaLAPACK (reduced performance)
Changes from 5.5.0 to 5.5.1
  • 64-bit default integer version: avoid MPI buffer size > 2^31 (could lead to negative counts in MPI_Recv with Intel ilp64 MPI)
  • Use ICNTL(3) unit instead of '*' to print parallel ordering time
  • Output symbolic factorization choice (ICNTL(58)) on ICNTL(3) unit
  • SCOTCH 7.x on Windows: use putenv instead of setenv (unsymmetric case, #MPI >1)
  • Fixed parallel analysis in case of 64-bit integers in parmetis and -i8 MUMPS
  • Limit recursivity depth in mumpsstatic_mapping.F (limit stack usage on trees with small nodes at the top and large nodes below)
  • Limit subroutine names to 32 characters
  • -DWORKAROUNDILP64MPICUSTOMREDUCE introduced (platformMPI and 64-bit default integer)
Changes from 5.4.1 to 5.5.0
  • New feature: analysis by blocks with compressed graph (ICNTL(15))
  • New feature: symbolic factorization using column counts (ICNTL(58))
  • Matrix scaling compatible with Schur complement feature
  • Automatic setting of CNTL(3) and CNTL(5) compatible with Schur complement feature
  • Fixed possible error in memory (INFOG(3)) and FLOPS (RINFOG(1)) estimations with Schur feature
  • Memory allowed (ICNTL(23)) is per MPI process and compatible with WK_USER
  • More compact storage of L factors for symmetric matrices
  • Exploit multithreading in SCOTCH versions >= 7.0
  • Support for NEC Aurora vector processors
  • Possibility to build shared instead of static libraries
  • Adjustment of BLR cluster size
  • Shorter time for matrix redistribution
  • Avoid a possible case of overflow in computation of MAXIS
  • Fixed memory estimate of PTRAIW/PTRARW arrays
  • -DDPRINT_BACKTRACE_ON_ABORT added in case of call to MUMPS_ABORT()
  • More usage of dynamic memory to avoid -9 errors
  • Fixed a possible "Internal error 3 in ZMUMPS_BLR_RETRIEVE_PANEL_LORU"
  • Change construction of mumps_int_def.h to allow for cross compilation
  • Fixed a possible error in deficiency detection on unsymmetric matrices
  • Duplicated few loops during solve (OMP / non-OMP) for gfortran performance
  • Fixed compilation issue with -DUPPER and -DMUMPS_WIN32 (5.4.1 regression)
  • Find free Fortan units instead of imposing a choice (WRITE_PROBLEM, save/restore)
  • Avoid freeing IRN/JCN when not allocated by MUMPS
  • Fixed a potential memory leak in dynamic memory management
  • -DALLOC_FROM_C introduced to fix dynamic memory management with Cray compilers
Changes from 5.4.0 to 5.4.1
  • Added feature to dump a matrix/rhs in binary form (see id%WRITE_PROBLEM)
  • Fixed error during constrained ordering (ICNTL(12)=3) leading to a segfault
  • Fixed type 2 assembly by pieces in case of huge blocks of delayed pivots
  • Avoid repeated small allocations in MUMPS_BUILD_SORT_INDEX
  • Fixed automatic choice for ICNTL(6) when values are not provided at analysis
  • Avoid an access to an uninitialized value (FLOP_FRFRONTS, MPI only, LDLT)
  • Fixed error printing in case of error -53
  • Fixed an erroneous -9 error in case of large Schur + discard factors
  • -DWORKAROUNDINTELILP64OPENMPLIMITATION avoids -i8 compilation warnings
  • Limited repeated amalgamations of large child with small parent
Changes from 5.3.5 to 5.4.0
  • Modified default threshold for null pivot detection (CNTL(3))
  • Improved performance of Schur complement computations
  • Reduced memory of centralized analysis with distributed matrix
  • Improved BLR clustering time during analysis
  • Improved BLR performance when CNTL(1)=0.0 and ICNTL(36)=0
  • Improved OOC performance in case CNTL(1)=0.0 or SYM=1
  • Improved multitreaded performance on matrices with many 2x2 pivots
  • Fixed a problem with parallel compilation (in case of: make -j all)
  • Fixed some timings during solve that were printed as 0 when PAR=0
  • Avoid possible integer overflow on INFOG(10)
  • Fixed type 1 assembly by pieces in case static CB moves to dynamic storage
  • Use with ITAC: avoid errors (e.g. in DMUMPS_UPPER_PREDICT...) due to MPI returning nonzero error codes when traces are activated
  • Add a JOB=-200 call (no MPI communications, clean local OOC files)
  • Fixed "Start processing the root ..." printing in case of Schur
  • Fixed SYM_PERM in case of Schur on reducible matrices
Changes from 5.3.4 to 5.3.5
  • Fixed 2x2 pivots bug from 5.3.4 release in MPI LDLT factorization
  • Fixed ICNTL(8)=-2 option during analysis (code and documentation)
  • Include basic fix for make -j
Changes from 5.3.3 to 5.3.4
  • Fixed a rare bug (segfault) related to dynamic storage management on numerically difficult matrices
  • Fixed a rare deadlock in BLR for symmetric matrices
  • Fixed an uninitialized variable (which could lead to incorrect -19 error)
  • Minor fix in userguide (CNTL(1) vs. ICNTL(1) in ICNTL(36) description)
  • Fixed a possible runtime issue during solve, related to "TO_PROCESS" array
Changes from 5.3.1 to 5.3.3
  • Assume ilp64 MPI interface only applies to Fortran in c_example.c
  • Note on gfortran-10 compilation added
  • Avoid intent on pointers (F2003-only)
  • More robust multithreading for matrix reformatting (arrowheads)
  • Fixed ICNTL(31) interpretation in case of repeated analysis
  • Fixed multiple mpif.h inclusion (distributed rhs, ifort+openmpi)
  • Fixed computation of effectively used memory statistics
  • Minor fix in userguide
  • Suppressed a !$OMP CRITICAL from solve phase (introduced in 5.3.0)
Changes from 5.3.0 to 5.3.1
  • Improved multithreaded performance of BLR backward solve
  • Fixed return code in build_mumps_int_def.c + openmp compilation (pgi)
  • Forbid a loop vectorization in [sdcz]sol_c.F (segfault with ifort)
Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.3.0
  • New feature: distributed right-hand sides
  • Improved time for arrowheads construction (single MPI case, mainly)
  • C interface: ability to know if MUMPS_INT is 64-bit from include file
  • Improved BLR performance when CNTL(1)=0.0 and ICNTL(36)=1
  • Fixed INFO(34),INFO(35),INFO(37),INFO(38) on processes with rank > 0
  • More portable MPI_IS_IN_PLACE feature in libseq
  • Fixed determinant computation when Cholesky ScaLapack is used
  • Information on advancement (flops done) on each MPI process
  • Allow rhs_sparse and irhs_sparse to be unassociated if nz_rhs=0
  • Fixed INFO(30) and INFO(31) computation on MPI processes with rank > 0
  • OMP collapsed loops: avoid FIRSTPRIVATE on internal loop bound (for pgi)
  • Fix for compilers not freeing local allocatable arrays (64-bit metis)
  • Fixed RINFO(5-6) and RINFOG(15-16) metrics (entries=>bytes)
  • C interface: A_ELT/SCHUR/RHS/REDRHS/RHS_loc/SOL_loc may exceed 2^31 entries
  • Local Schur (ICNTL(19)=2 or 3) may now exceed 2^31 entries
  • Fixed internal dynamic storage of blocks with more than 2^31 entries
  • Fixed a bug in the parallel analysis that limited scalability
Changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1
  • Fixed a minor "Internal error in CMUMPS_DM_FREEALLDYNAMICCB"
  • Default value of ICNTL(14) for MPI executions independent of SYM + slightly less aggressive than for 5.2.0
  • Avoided accesses to uninitialized data in symmetric (2D root, BLR)
  • Fixed some incorrect "out" intents for routine arguments
  • Avoided CHUNK=0 in OMP loops even if loop not parallelized (pgi)
  • Fixed COLSCA&ROWSCA declarations in [SDCZ]MUMPS_ANA_F
  • Avoided a possible segfault in presence of NaN's in pivot search
  • Minor update to userguide
  • Fixed MPI_IN_PLACE usage in libseq (preventing compiler optimization)
Changes from 5.1.2 to 5.2.0
  • Memory gains due to low-rank factorization are now effective, low-rank solve
  • Internal dynamic storage possible in case static workspace too small
  • Improved distributed memory usage and MPI granularity (some sym. matrices)
  • Improved granularity (and performance) for symmetric matrices; ability to use [DSCZ]GEMMT kernel (BLAS extension) if available (see INSTALL)
  • A-1 functionality: improved performance due to solution gathering
  • Memory peak for analysis reduced (distributed-entry, 64-bit orderings)
  • Time for analysis reduced by avoiding some preprocessing (when possible)
  • More exploitation of RHS sparsity during forward substitution
  • Ability to save/restore an instance to/from disk
  • INFO and INFOG dimension extended from 40 to 80
  • METIS_OPTIONS introduced for METIS users to define some specific Metis options
  • MUMPS can be asked to call omp_set_num_threads with a value provided in ICNTL(16)
  • Fixed: INFO(16)/INFOG(21)/INFOG(22) did not take into account the extra memory allocated due to memory allowed (ICNTL(23)>0); INFOG(8) was not correclty set
  • Initialize only lower-diagonal part for workers in symmetric type 2 fronts
  • Workaround a segfault at beg. of facto due to a gfortran-8 bug
  • Fixed a bug in weighted matching algorithm when all matrix values are 0
  • Portability: include stdint.h instead of int_types.h
  • Forced some initializations to make C interface more valgrind-friendly
  • Workaround intel 2017 vectorization bug in pivot search (symmetric+MPI+large matrices)
  • Stop trying to send messages on COMM_LOAD in case of error (risk of deadlock)
  • Avoided most array creation by compiler due to Fortran pointers
  • Avoid two cases of int. overflow (KEEP(66), A-1 with large ICNTL(27))
  • Fixed a bug with compressed ordering (ICNTL(12)=2) (regression from 5.0.0) and suppress compress ordering only in case of automatic setting
Changes from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2
  • Corrected an overestimation of memory (regression from 5.1.0)
  • Corrected/extended WORKAROUNDINTELILP64MPI2INTEGER mechanism (see INSTALL)
  • Parallel analysis: fixed a bug, limited number of MPI processes on small problems, and reverted to sequential analysis on tiny problems. This is to avoid erroneous behavior and failures in the parallel ordering tools.
  • Faster BLR clustering on matrices with quasi-dense rows (which are skipped)
  • Improved performance of solve phase on very small matrices
  • Solve phase with a single MPI process is more thread-safe
  • Fixed compilation issue with opensolaris ([SDCZ]MUMPS_TRUNCATED_RRQR)
  • Fixed minor bug in BLR factorization (uninitialized timer)
  • Corrected minor compiler warnings
  • Minor correction to userguide
  • Add -DBLR_MT in Intel example Makefile
Changes from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1
  • Fix in parallel analysis
  • Stabilization of 5.1.0:
    • Improved stability of Block-Low-Rank feature
    • Corrected an incorrect deallocation of POSINRHSCOMP_COL
    • Correction of a case of uninitialized data access in type 2 pivoting
    • Suppressed occasional debug trace "write(6,*) " KEEP265= ", KEEP265"
Changes from 5.0.2 to 5.1.0
  • New feature: selective 64-bit integers (introduced only where needed) to process matrices with more than 2^{31}-1 entries. -mixed 32/64 bit integers for API: NNZ/NNZ_loc 64-bit (NZ/NZ_LOC kept temporarily for backward compatibility)
    • both 32 or 64 bit integer versions of external orderings (Metis/ParMetis, SCOTCH/pt-SCOTCH, PORD), can be used
    • Error -51 when a 32-bit external ordering is invoked on a graph larger than 2^{31}-1
  • New feature: (experimental) factorization based on Block-Low-Rank format, (ICNTL(35) to activate it and CNTL(7) for low-rank precision)
  • Improved performance on numerically hard matrices (LU and LDLt)
  • "-DALLOW_NON_INIT" flag has disappeared and needs no longer be used
  • Fixed incorrect deallocation in case of JOB=3/ICNTL(26)=1 followed by JOB=2
  • Fixed compilation problem with Intel2017 + openMPI in [sdcz]ana_aux_par.F
  • Minor correction of memory statistics for solve
  • Use 64-bit integers where needed during the solve phase to enable large number of right-hand-sides (NRHS) in one block (i.e. ICNTL(27)xN can be larger than 2^{31}-1)
  • Improved performance of solve phase
  • Allow pivoting thresholds CNTL(1) equal to 1.0
  • New error -52: when default Fortran integers are 64 bit, external orderings should also have 64-bit default integers
  • New error -22, INFO(2)=16 when IRN_loc or JCN_loc not associated while ICNTL(18) is set to 3
  • Missing O_BINARY flag was added to open binary files on MINGW systems
  • New error -53 that could reflect a matrix structure change between analysis and factorization
Changes from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2
  • Suppress error on id%SCHUR_CINTERFACE in mumps_driver.F when bound check is enabled and when using 2D block cyclic Schur complement feature (ICNTL(19)=2 or 3) from C or Matlab interfaces
  • Problem of failed assertion in [SDCZ]MUMPS_TREAT_DESCBAND solved (static variable INODE_WAITED_FOR was not initialized and was not detected by valgrind)
  • Correction of very minor memory leaks and access to uninitialized data
  • A setting of INFO(1)=-1-17 should have been INFO(1)=-17
  • Some settings of INFO(1)=-17 should have been INFO(1)=-20
  • Suppress absolute tolerance 10^-20 in pivot selection for SYM=2; skip 2x2 pivot search if only 1 pivot candidate, avoid pivots that are subnormal numbers (their inverse is equal to infinity)
  • Warning +2 now only occurs when solution is really close to 0
  • Occasional bug in OOC and multiple instances solved
  • Better selection of equations for bwd errors (W1 and W2) and better forward error estimates on some machines with 80-bit registers
  • Improved users' guide (OOC files cleaning, permutation details, usage of multithreading, clarification of MegaByte unit)
  • Cleaning of asynchronous messages after facto/solve was revisited and is more robust
  • More robust suppression of integer overflow risk during solve for huge ICNTL(23)
  • Improved performance of symbolic factorization in case of matrices with relatively dense rows and/or with large number of Lagrange multipliers
  • Improved performance of numerical factorization phase during pivot search for symmetric indefinite matrices
  • Use of -xcore-avx2 requires !DEC$ NOOPTIMIZE in MUMPS_BIT_GET4PROC with current versions of Intel compilers
  • Suppressed some temporary array creation and implicit conversions
Changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1
  • Iterative refinement convergence check corrected (problem introduced in 5.0.0)
  • Used communicator provided by user instead of MPI_COMM_WORLD in two places (parallel analysis only)
  • Matlab interface patched to avoid memory corruption in some situations (Schur, colsca/rowsca management)
  • Corrected a case of error not properly processed which could cause a segfault instead of a standard "-9" error, or an abort on "ERR: ERROR: NBROWS > NBROWF"
  • Amalgamation without fill forced for single children
  • (rare) segfault related to assemblies of delayed columns in scalapack root node corrected
  • Automatic strategy for ordering choice improved
  • Further improvements to userguide (mainly iterative refinement, error analysis, discard factors and forward elimination during factorization)
  • Error -51 also raised in case of integer overflow during parallel analysis
Changes from 4.10.0 to 5.0.0
  • Userguide revisited
  • Compatibility with Metis 5.1.0/ParMetis 4.0.3, and with SCOTCH/pt-SCOTCH 6.0
  • Matlab interface updated (scaling vectors (COLSCA, ROWSCA) and A-1 feature ICNTL(30) are now available)
  • Improved sequential and parallel performance for computing selected entries of A-1 (ICNTL(30))
  • Workspace for solve phase, of size B x N per processor (B: block size controlled by ICNTL(27)) divided by almost #procs. Default value of B increased.
  • Parallel symmetric indefinite elemental matrices: improved numerical behaviour
  • Performance of solve phase improved
  • Finer control of error analysis and iterative refinement (ICNTL(11))
  • Memory for analysis phase (mapping) reduced.
  • Better support for 64-bit integers (see INSTALL file)
  • Error raised instead of silent integer overflow during analysis (but not during external orderings)
  • Improvements and corrections to parallel analysis (ICNTL(28)), deterministic graph construction forced with -DDETERMINISTIC_PARALLEL_GRAPH
  • Forward elimination (ICNTL(32)) can be done during factorization
  • Possibility to use a workspace (WK_USER, LWK_USER) allocated by user
  • Very occasional numerical bug in parallel out-of-core case corrected (thanks to EDF and Samtech for the validation)
  • More efficient processing of sparse right-hand-sides (see ICNTL(20))
  • Count for entries in factors now include parallel root node
  • Amalgamation of the assembly tree revisited
  • Scaling arrays (COLSCA, ROWSCA) also returned at C interface level
  • OOC_NB_FILE_TYPE is part of the MUMPS structure, for a better management of multiple OOC instances
  • Warning +2 set only once (could lead to incorrect +4 in case of iterative refinement + error analysis)
  • Warning +4 has disappeared from documentation (since it was never occurring -- JCN never modified on exit)
  • Error code -16 now raised for the case N=0 even on distributed matrices (thanks to P. Jolivet for noticing this)
  • Use BLAS3 routines for efficiency even in case of BLAS2 operations (-DMUMPS_USE_BLAS2 allows the use of BLAS2 routines for such operations)
  • Message "problem with NIV2_FLOPS message" should no more occur (there was still an occasional problem in 4.10.0)
  • Improved determinant computation (ICNTL(33)) in case of singular matrix + scaling (where zero pivots are excluded)
  • Trace ' PANEL: INIT and force STRAT_IO=' suppressed
  • Some OpenMP directives added (multithreaded BLAS still needed)
  • Later allocation of strips of distributed fronts with improved locality
  • Front factorization algorithms redesigned (two levels of panels)
  • Null pivot (ICNTL(24)) and null space detection ICNTL(25)) improved for unsymmetric matrices
  • Fortran automatic arrays (e.g. in mumps_static_mapping.F) suppressed to avoid risks of stack overflows
  • Routine names and filenames changed
Changes from 4.9.2 to 4.10.0
  • Modified variable names and variable contents in Make.inc/Makefile* for Windows (Makefile.inc from an older version needs modifications, please do a diff)
  • Option to discard factors during factorization when not needed (ICNTL(31))
  • Option to compute the determinant (ICNTL(33))
  • Experimental "A-1" functionality (ICNTL(30))
  • Matlab interface updated for 64-bit machines
  • Improved users' guide
  • Suppressed a memory leak occurring when Scalapack is used and user does loops on JOB=6 without JOB=-2/JOB=-1 in-between
  • Avoid occasional deadlock with huge values of ICNTL(14)
  • Avoid problem of -17 error code during solve phase
  • Avoid checking association of pointer arrays ISOL_loc and SOL_loc on procs with no components of solution (small problems)
  • Some data structures were not free at the end of the parallel analysis. Bug fixed.
  • Fixed unsafe test of overflow "IF (WFLG+N .LE. WFLG)"
  • Large Schur complements sent by blocks if ICNTL(19)=1 (but options ICNTL(19)=2 or 3 are recommended when Schur complement is large)
  • Corrected problem with sparse RHS + unsymmetric permutation + transpose solve (problem appeared in 4.9)
  • Case where ICNTL(19)=2 or 3 and small value of SIZE_SCHUR causing problems in parallel solved.
  • In case an error is detected, solved occasional problem of deallocating non-allocated local array PERM.
  • Correction in computation of matrix norm in complex arithmetic (MPI_COMPLEX was used in place of MPI_REAL in MPI_REDUCE)
  • Scaling works on singular matrices
  • Compilation problem with -i8 solved
  • MUMPS_INT used in OOC layer to facilitate compilation with 64 bit integers
Changes from 4.9.1 to 4.9.2
  • Compressed orderings (ICNTL(12)=2) are now compatible with PORD and PT-Scotch
  • Mapping problem on large numbers of MPI processes, leading to INFOG(1)=-135 on "special" matrices solved (problem appeared in 4.9.1)
Changes from 4.9 to 4.9.1
  • Balancing on the processors of both work and memory improved. In a parallel environment memory consumption should be reduced and performance improved
  • Modification of the amalgamation to solve both the problem of small root nodes and the problem of tiny nodes implying too many small MPI messages
  • Corrected bug occurring on big-endian environments when passing a 64-bit integer argument in place of 32-bit one. This was causing problems in parallel, when ScaLAPACK is used, on IBM machines.
  • Internal ERROR 2 in MUMPS_271 now impossible (was already not happening in practice)
  • Solved compiler warnings (or even errors) related to the order of the declarations of arrays and array sizes
  • Parallel analysis: fixed the problem due to the invocation of the size function on non-allocated pointers, corrected a bug due to initialization of pointers in the declaration statements, and improved the Makefiles
  • Corrected bug in the reallocation of arrays
  • Corrected several accesses to uninitialized variables
  • Internal Error (4) in OOC (MUMPS_597) no more occurs
  • Suppressed possible printing of "Internal WARNING 1 in CMUMPS_274"
  • (Minor) numerical pivoting problem in parallel LDLt solved
  • Estimated flops corrected when SYM=2 and Scalapack is used (because we use LU on the root node, not LDLt, in that case)
  • Scaling option effectively used is now returned in INFOG(33) and ICNTL(8) is no more modified by the package
  • INFO(25) is now correctly documented, new statistic INFO(27) added
Changes from 4.8.4 to 4.9
  • Parallel analysis available
  • Use of 64-bit integer addressing for large internal workarrays
  • overflow in computation of INFO(9) in out-of-core corrected
  • fixed Matlab and Scilab interfaces to sparse RHS functionality
  • time cost of analysis reduced for "optimisation" matrices
  • time to gather solution on processor 0 reduced and automatic copying of some routine arguments by some compilers resolved.
  • extern "C" added to header file mpi.h of libseq for C++ compilers
  • Problem with NZ_loc=0 and scaling with ifort 10 solved
  • Statistics about current state of the factorization produced/printed even in case of error.
  • Avoid using complex arrays as real workspace (complex versions)
  • New error code -40 (instead of -10) when SYM=1 is used and ScaLAPACK detects a negative pivot
  • Solved problem of "Internal error 1" in [SDCZ]MUMPS_264 and [SDCZ]MUMPS_274
  • Solved undeterministic bug occurring with asynchronous OOC + panels when uninitialized memory access had value -7777
  • Fixed a remaining problem with OOC filenames having more than 150 characters
  • Fixed some problems related to the usage of intrinsic functions inside PARAMETER statements (HP-UX compilers)
  • Fixed problem of explicit interface in [SDCZ]MUMPS_521
  • Out-of-core strategy from 4.7.3 can be reactivated with -DOLD_OOC_NOPANEL
  • Message "problem with NIV2_FLOPS message" should no more occur
  • Avoid compilation problem with old versions of gfortran
Changes from 4.8.3 to 4.8.4
  • Absolute threshold criterion for null pivot detection added to CNTL(3)
  • Problems related to messages "Increase small buffer size ..." solved.
  • New option for ICNTL(8) to scale matrices. Default scaling cheaper to compute
  • Problem of filename clash with unsymmetric matrices on Windows platforms solved
  • Allow for longer filenames for temporary OOC files
  • Strategy to update blocksize during factorization of frontal matrices modified to avoid too large messages during pipelined factorization (that could lead to a -17 error code)
  • Messages corresponding to delayed pivots can now be sent in several packets. This avoids some other cases of error -17
  • One rare case of deadlock solved
  • Corrected values and sign of INFO(8) and INFO(20)
Changes from 4.8.2 to 4.8.3
  • Fix compilation issues on Windows platforms
  • Fix ranlib issue with libseq on MacOSX platforms
  • Fix a few problems of uninitialized variables
Changes from 4.8.1 to 4.8.2
  • Problem of wrong argument in the call to [sdcz]mumps_246 solved
  • Limit occurrence of error -11 in the in-core case
  • Problem with the use of SIZE on an unassociated pointer solved
  • Problem with distributed solution combined with non-working host solved
  • Fix generation of MM matrices
  • Fix of a minor bug in OOC error management
  • Fix portability issues on usleep
Changes from 4.8.0 to 4.8.1
  • New distributed scaling is now on by default for distributed matrices
  • Error management corrected in case of 32-bit overflow during factorization
  • SEPARATOR is now defined as "\\" in Windows version
  • Bug fix in OOC panel version
Changes from 4.7.3 to 4.8.0
  • Parallel scalings algorithms available
  • Possibility to dump a matrix in matrix-market format from both C and Fortran interfaces
  • Correction when dumping a distributed matrix in matrix-market format
  • Minor numerical stability problem in some LDL^t parallel factorizations corrected.
  • Memory usage significantly reduced in both parallel and sequential (limit communication buffers, in-place assembly for assembled matrices, overlapping during stack).
  • Better alignment properties of mumps_struc.h
  • Reduced time for static mapping during the analysis phase.
  • Correction in dynamic scheduler
  • "Internal error 2 in DMUMPS_26" no more occurs, even if SIZE_SCHUR=0
  • Corrections in the management of ICNTL(25), some useful code was protected with -Dtry_null_space and not compiled.
  • Scaling arrays are now declared real even in complex versions
  • Out-of-core functionality storing factors on disk
  • Possibility to tell MUMPS how much memory the package is allowed to allocate (ICNTL(23))
  • Estimated and effective number of entries in factors returned to user
  • API change: MAXS and MAXIS have disappeared from the interface, please use ICNTL(14) and ICNTL(23) to control the memory usage
  • Error code -11 raised less often, especially in out-of-core executions
  • Error code -14 should no more occur
  • Memory used at the solve phase is now returned to the user
  • Possibility to control the blocking size for multiple right-hand sides (strong impact on performance, in particular for out-of-core executions)
  • Solved problems of 32-bit integer overflows during analysis related to memory estimations.
  • New error code -37 related to integer overflows during factorization
  • Compile one single arithmetic with make s, make d, make c or make z, examples are now in examples/, test/ has disappeared.
  • Arithmetic-independent parts are isolated into a libmumps_common.a, that must now be linked too (see examples/Makefile).
Changes from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3
  • detection of null pivots for unsymmetric matrices corrected
  • improved pivoting in parallel symmetric solver
  • possible problem when Schur on and out-of-core : Schur was splitted
  • type of parameters of intrinsic function MAX not compatible in single precision arithmetic versions.
  • minor changes for Windows
  • correction with reduced RHS functionality in parallel case
Changes from 4.7.1 to 4.7.2
  • negative loads suppressed in mumps distribution
Changes from 4.7 to 4.7.1
  • Release number in Fortran interface corrected
  • "Negative load !!" message replaced by a warning
Changes from 4.6.4 to 4.7
  • New functionality: build reduced RHS / use partial solution
  • New functionality: detection of zero pivots
  • Memory reduced (especially communication buffers)
  • Problem of integer overflow "MEMORY_SENT" corrected
  • Error code -20 used when receive buffer too small (instead of -17 in some cases)
  • Erroneous memory access with singular matrices (since 4.6.3) corrected
  • Minor bug correction in hybrid scheduler
  • Parallel solution step uses less memory
  • Performance and memory usage of solution step improved
  • String containing the version number now available as a component of the MUMPS structure
  • Case of error "-9964" has disappeared
Changes from 4.6.3 to 4.6.4
  • Avoid name clashes (F_INT, ...) when C interface is used and user wants to include, say, smumps_c.h, zmumps_c.h (etc.) at the same time
  • Avoid large array copies (by some compilers) in distributed matrix entry functionality
  • Default ordering less dependent on number of processors
  • New garbage collector for contribution blocks
  • Original matrix in "arrowhead form" on candidate processors only (assembled case)
  • Corrected bug occurring rarely, on large number of processors, and that depended on value of uninitialized data
  • Parallel LDL^t factorization numerically improved
  • Less memory allocation in mapping phase (in some cases)
Changes from 4.6.2 to 4.6.3
  • Reduced memory usage for symmetric matrices (compressed CB)
  • Reduced memory allocation for parallel executions
  • Scheduler parameters for parallel executions modified
  • Memory estimates (that were too large) corrected with 2Dcyclic Schur complement option
  • Portability improved (C/Fortran interfacing for strings)
  • The situation leading to Warning "RHS associated in MUMPS_301" no more occurs.
  • Parameters INFO/RINFO from the Scilab/Matlab API are now called INFOG/RINFOG in order to match the MUMPS user's guide.
Changes from 4.6.1 to 4.6.2
  • Metis ordering now available with Schur option
  • Schur functionality correctly working with Scilab interface
  • Occasional SIGBUS problem on single precision versions corrected
Changes from 4.6 to 4.6.1
  • Problem with hybrid scheduler and elemental matrix entry corrected
  • Improved numerical processing of symmetric matrices with quasi-dense rows
  • Better use of Blacs/Scalapack on processor grids smaller than MPI_COMM_WORLD
  • Block sizes improved for large symmetric matrices
Changes from 4.5.6 to 4.6
  • Official release with Scilab and Matlab interfaces available
  • Correction in 2x2 pivots for symmetric indefinite complex matrices
  • New hybrid scheduler active by default
Changes from 4.5.5 to 4.5.6
  • Preliminary developments for an out-of-core code (not yet available)
  • Improvement in parallel symmetric indefinite solver
  • Preliminary distribution of a SCILAB and a MATLAB interface to MUMPS.
Changes from 4.5.4 to 4.5.5
  • Improved tree management
  • Improved weighted matching preprocessing: duplicates allowed, overflow avoided, dense rows
  • Improved strategy for selecting default ordering
  • Improved node amalgamation
Changes from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4
  • Double complex version no more depends on double precision version.
  • Simplification of some complex indirections in mumps_cv.F that were causing difficultiels to some compilers.
Changes from 4.5.2 to 4.5.3
  • Correction of a minor problem leading to INFO(1)=-135 in some cases.
Changes from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2
  • correction of two uninitialized variables in proportional mapping
Changes from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1
  • better management of contribution messages
  • minor modifications in symmetric preprocessing step
Changes from 4.4.0 to 4.5.0
  • improved numerical features for symmetric indefinite matrices
    • two-by-two pivots
    • symmetric scaling
    • ordering based on compressed graph preserving two by two pivots
    • constrained ordering
  • 2D cyclic Schur better validated
  • problems resulting from automatic array copies done by compiler corrected
  • reduced memory requirement for maximum transversal features
Changes from 4.3.4 to 4.4.0
  • 2D block cyclic Schur complement matrix
  • symmetric indefinite matrices better handled
  • Right-hand side vectors can be sparse
  • Solution can be kept distributed on the processors
  • Metis allowed for element-entry
  • Parallel performance and memory usage improved:
    • load is updated more often for type 2 nodes
    • scheduling under memory constraints
    • reduced message sizes in symmetric case
    • some linear searches avoided when sending contributions
  • Avoid array copies in the call to the partial mapping routine (candidates); such copies appeared with intel compiler version 8.0.
  • Workaround MPI_AllReduce problem with booleans if mpich and MUMPS are compiled with different compilers
  • Reduced message sizes for CB blocks in symmetric case
  • Various minor improvements
Changes from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4
  • Copies of some large CB blocks suppressed in local assemblies from child to parent
  • gathering of solution optimized in solve phase
Changes from 4.3.2 to 4.3.3
  • Control parameters of symbolic factorization modified.
  • Global distribution time and arrowheads computation slightly optimized.
  • Multiple Right-Hand-Side implemented.
Changes from 4.3.1 to 4.3.2
  • Thresholds for symbolic factorization modified.
  • Use merge sort for candidates (faster)
  • User's communicator copied when entering MUMPS
  • Code to free CB areas factorized in various places
  • One array suppressed in solve phase
Changes from 4.3 to 4.3.1
  • Memory leaks in PORD corrected
  • Minor compilation problem on T3E solved
  • Avoid taking into account absolute criterion CNTL(3) for partial LDLt factorization when whole column is known (relative stability is enough).
  • Symbol MPI_WTICK removed from mpif.h
  • Bug wrt inertia computation INFOG(12) corrected
Changes from 4.2beta to 4.3
  • C INTERFACE CHANGE: comm_fortran must be defined from the calling program, since MUMPS uses a Fortran communicator (see user guide).
  • LAPACK library is no more required
  • User guide improved
  • Default ordering changed
  • Return number of negative diagonal elements in LDLt factorization (except for root node if treated in parallel)
  • Rank-revealing options no more available by default
  • Improved parallel performance
    • new incremental mechanism for load information
    • new communicator dedicated to load information
    • improved candidate strategy
    • improved management of SMP platforms
  • Include files can be used in both free and fixed forms
  • Bug fixes:
    • some uninitialized values
    • pbs with size of data on t3e
    • minor problems corrected with distributed matrix entry
    • count of negative pivots corrected
    • AMD for element entries
    • symbolic factorization
    • memory leak in tree reordering and in solve step
  • Solve step uses less memory (and should be more efficient)
Changes from 4.1.6 to 4.2beta
  • More precisions available (single, double, complex, double complex).
  • Uniprocessor version available (doesn't require MPI installed)
  • Interface changes (Users of MUMPS 4.1.6 will have to slightly modify their codes):
    • MUMPS -> ZMUMPS, CMUMPS, SMUMPS, DMUMPS depending the precision
    • the Schur complement matrix should now be allocated by the user before the call to MUMPS
    • NEW: C interface available.
    • ICNTL(6)=6 in 4.1.6 (automatic choice) is now ICNTL(6)=7 in 4.2
  • Tighter integration of new ordering packages (for assembled matrices), see the description of ICNTL(7):
    • AMF,
    • Metis,
    • PORD,
  • Memory usage decreased and memory scalability improved.
  • Problem when using multiple instances solved.
  • Various improvments and bug fixes.
Changes from 4.1.4 to 4.1.6
  • Modifications/Tuning done by P.Amestoy during his visit at NERSC.
  • Additional memory and communication statistics.
  • minor pbs solved.
Changes from 4.0.4 to 4.1.4
  • Tuning on Cray T3e (and minor debugging)
  • Improved strategy for asynchronous communications (irecv during factorization)
  • Improved Dynamic scheduling and splitting strategies
  • New maximal transversal strategies
  • New Option (default) automatic decision for scaling and maximum transversal

Release history

Release 5.7.3: July 2024
Release 5.7.2: June 2024
Release 5.7.1: May 2024
Release 5.7.0: April 2024
Release 5.6.2: October 2023
Release 5.6.1: July 2023
Release 5.6.0: April 2023
Release 5.5.1: July 2022
Release 5.5.0: April 2022
Release 5.4.1: August 2021
Release 5.4.0: April 2021
Release 5.3.5: October 2020
Release 5.3.4: September 2020
Release 5.3.3: June 2020
Release 5.3.2[.x]: May 2020, internal/experimental
Release 5.3.1: April 2020
Release 5.3.0: April 2020
Release 5.2.1: June 2019
Release 5.2.0: April 2019
Release 5.1.2: October 2017
Release 5.1.1: March 2017
Release 5.1.0: Feb 2017, internal release (limited diffusion)
Release 5.0.2: July 2016
Release 5.0.1: July 2015
Release 5.0.0: February 2015
Release 4.10.0: May 2011
Release 4.9.2: November 2009
Release 4.9.1: October 2009
Release 4.9: July 2009
Release 4.8.4: December 2008
Release 4.8.3: September 2008
Release 4.8.2: September 2008
Release 4.8.1: August 2008
Release 4.8.0: July 2008
Release 4.7.3: May 2007
Release 4.7.2: April 2007
Release 4.7.1: April 2007
Release 4.7: April 2007
Release 4.6.4: January 2007
Release 4.6.3: June 2006
Release 4.6.2: April 2006
Release 4.6.1: February 2006
Release 4.6: January 2006
Release 4.5.6: December 2005, internal release
Release 4.5.5: October 2005
Release 4.5.4: September 2005
Release 4.5.3: September 2005
Release 4.5.2: September 2005
Release 4.5.1: September 2005
Release 4.5.0: July 2005
Releases 4.3.3 -- 4.4.3: internal releases
Release 4.3.2: November 2003
Release 4.3.1: October 2003
Release 4.3: July 2003
Release 4.2 (beta): December 2002
Release 4.1.6: March 2000
Release 4.0.4: Wed Sept 22, 1999 <-- Final version from PARASOL