Merge branch 'ELPA_GPU'

INSTALL.md

@@ -118,6 +118,13 @@ option, otherwise no parallelisation whatsoever will be present.
 It is possible to install the different flavours of *ELPA* (with/without MPI, with/without OpenMP) in the same
 directory, since the library is named differently for each build.
 
+### GPU support as runtime option ###
+If the target systems has NVIDIA GPUs as accelerator cards *ELPA* can be build with GPU support.
+The configure option "--enable-GPU-support" will trigger a build of the GPU version of ELPA. It might be necessary
+that also the option "--with-cuda-path=[your path to the local cuda installation]" has to be set.
+
+For GPU support, only models of NIVIDA GPUs with "compute capabillity" > 3.5 are supported.
+
 ### Doxygen documentation ###
 A doxygen documentation can be created with the "--enable-doxygen-doc" configure option
 

ISSUES.md

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 For more details and recent updates please visit the online [issue system] (https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de/elpa/elpa/issues)
 Issues which are not mentioned in a newer release are (considered as) solved
 
+### ELPA 2016.11.001 release ###
+- at the moment no issues are known
+
 ### ELPA 2016.05.003 release  ###
 
 - the Fortran module file "precision" was installed as private. Lead to linking problems

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Current Release ##
 
-The current release is ELPA 2016.05.004
+The current release is ELPA 2016.11.001
 
 ## About *ELPA*
 

RELEASE_NOTES

-This file contains the release notes for the ELPA 2016.05.004 version
+This file contains the release notes for the ELPA 2016.11.001 version
 
 What is new?
 -------------
-For changes since release ELPA 2016.05.003 please have a look at the Changelog file
+For detailed information about changes since release ELPA 2016.05.004 please have a look at the Changelog file
+Highlights are:
+- support of single and double precision (real and complex) calculations
+- GPU support for ELPA 1stage and ELPA 2stage
 
 
-a) ABI change
+ABI change
 ---------------------
 
-Since release 2016.05.001 the ABI has not changed. Only additional interfaces habe been added
+Since release 2016.05.001 the ABI has not changed. Only additional interfaces habe been added, please have also a look
+at the DEPRECTATED_FEATURES file
 
 
 Any incompatibilities to previous version?
@@ -16,3 +20,4 @@ Any incompatibilities to previous version?
 
 As mentioned before, the ABI of ELPA was not changed; There is no
 incompatibility with the previous version ELPA 2016.05.002. There is, however, an incompatibility with older versions than ELPA 2015.11.001 !
+