- enabling fusing iterations of stage 5 in ELPA2 for every configuration
- Changed reduction bandwidth in ELPA2 to be at least 64
- partial OpenMP parallelization of the QR factorization in bandred_real
- OpenMP parallelization of SYMM
- OpenMP parallelization of SYR2K in bandred_real
- OpenMP parallelization for elpa1_reduce_add_vectors and elpa1_transpose_vectors
- AVX2 support in backtransformation elpa2_kernels (FMA3 instructions introduced with Haswell microarchitecture)