Beta release!
Please note that the library has not been "officially" released. While we continue to work on the documentation, these web pages are likely to contain broken links and documents in draft form. Please send an email to

oomph-lib AT maths DOT man DOT ac DOT uk
if you wish to be informed of the library's "official" release.

Copyright

oomph-lib is "open source" software and may therefore be freely downloaded and distributed -- the full details are given below. To facilitate the installation of the library, the oomph-lib distribution includes (parts of) certain other open source libraries (SuperLU, METIS and BLAS). Redistribution of these libraries with oomph-lib has been approved by their authors -- we suggest you get in touch with them if you wish to re-distribute their libraries yet again.

`oomph-lib's` licencing terms

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation ; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

Your use or distribution of oomph-lib or any derivative code implies that you agree to this License.

Licencing details for SuperLU

The oomph-lib distribution includes the double precision versions of the sparse direct linear solver SuperLU (version 3.0 of the serial version and version 2.0 of the distributed memory parallel version). Full details of the SuperLU licence may be found at

http://crd.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU

Licencing details for METIS

The oomph-lib distribution includes version 4.0 of George Karypis' METIS mesh partitioning library. Full details of the METIS licence may be found at

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/

Licencing details for BLAS/LAPACK

The oomph-lib distribution includes the entire BLAS library and a few functions from LAPACK. Full licencing details for the BLAS library may be found at

http://www.netlib.org/blas/ Full licencing details for the LIBRARY library may be found at http://www.netlib.org/lapack/

PDF file

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