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ELPA2 can now be build (as ELPA1) for single precision calculations.
The ELPA2 kernles which are implemented in assembler, C, or C++ have NOT
yet been ported.

Thus at the moment only the GENERIC and GENERIC_SIMPLE kernels support
single precision calculations

With the configure option "--enable-single-precision" ELPA1 is build
with single-precision (half-words) only.

The best precision in single-precision (float or complex) is
2^-23 ~ 1.2e-7. The accuracy of the error residual of ELPA1 in
single-precision mode is of the order 1e-4 to 1e-5. The orthogonality of
the EV's is fullfilled up to about ~1e-6.

Thus the precision of ELPA1 in single-precision mode is roughly 100 -
1000 times less than the best achievable precison. This is consistent
with the double-precision mode, where also a factor of 100 - 1000 less
precision than the theoretical best one is found.

The float EVs are identical to the double EVs to at least 1e-2, the
precision of the EVs is thus about 1e-7/1e-2 = 1e5 times lower than the
best theoretical precision. If the same holds for the double precision
calculations, this implies that the double precision results can also
be only trusted on the level 1e-11 (5 orders of magnitude larger
than the best theoretical precision)

The best speed-up compared to the double precision calculation is
a factor of two. This is by far not achieved yet, since the singl
precision version is not at all optimized at the moment

The Fortran variable declerations "variable type*[4,8,16]" is non
Fortran standard. It might cause problem in the future.
Furthermore, the usage of Fortran and C togehther is more clean
if variables are defined according to C variable types.

This is done, now for all the test programs

This commit does not change the interfaces defined in ELPA_2015.11.001 !
All functionality is available via the interface names and definitions
as in ELPA_2015.11.001

But some new interfaces have been added, in order to unfiy the
references from C and Fortran codes:

- The procedures to create the ELPA (row/column) communicators are now
  available from C _and_ Fortran with the name "get_elpa_communicators".
  The old Fortran name "get_elpa_row_col_comms" and the old C name
  "elpa_get_communicators" are from now on deprecated but still available

- The 1-stage solver routines are available from C _and_ Fortran via
  the names "solve_evp_real_1stage" and "solve_evp_complex_1stage".
  The old Fortran names "solve_evp_real" and "solve_evp_complex" are
  from now on deprecated but still functional.

All documentation (man pages, doxygen, and example test programs) have
been changed accordingly.

This commit implies a change in the API versioning number, but no
changes to codes calling ELPA (if they have been already updated to the
API of ELPA_2015.11.001)

- the contact email is now: elpa-library@mpcdf.mpg.de
- the official website is now hosted at http://elpa.mpcdf.mpg.de

The Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG) has been renamed into
the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF).

This is reflected now in the adapted headers.

In the near future, all references to the ELPA webside and
the ELPA email will also be adapted.

A build without autotools is not officially supported anymore.
Thus this --- broken since long time --- Makefile.example is removed

The examples, how to invoke ELPA from a c program have been updated.
There are now examples for ELPA1 and ELPA2 both real and complex case.
The test cases are still with less functionality than their Fortran
counter parts, they are just ment as a "proof-of-concept".