Merge pull request #26 from georghammerl/update_4C_branch

update 4C

_codes/4c.md

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ title: 4C - Comprehensive Computational Community Code
 Topics: Numerical Simulation, Finite Elements
 Link: https://www.dealii.org/
 Project Head: Georg Hammerl, Christian Cyron
-Members: Developers from Institute of Material Systems Modeling (Hereon), Institute for Computational Mechanics (TU Muenchen, Munich), Institute for Mathematics and Computer-Based Simulation (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Munich), Institute for High-Performance Scientific Computing (Universitaet Augsburg)
+Members: Developers from Hereon, Institute for Computational Mechanics (TU Muenchen, Munich), Institute for Mathematics and Computer-Based Simulation (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Munich), Institute for Applied Numerics (Ruhr University Bochum)
+Link: https://www.dealii.org/
 toc: true
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@@ -13,7 +14,11 @@ toc: true
 
 # 4C: A multiphysics solver
 
-4C is a code for highly parallelized multiphysics computer simulations at the continuum scale. It is based on BACI, a code project that has been developed at the Institute for Computational Mechanics of the Technical University of Munich over more than a decade. We believe that research in our community will benefit significantly from such a tool, making our daily work more efficient. The development goes hand in hand with the progress being made within deal.II, which is also part of the HiRSE_PS project. There is a worldwide community driving deal.II, a C++ software library on which the 4C code relies heavily. It provides the finite element backend, linear algebra functionality as well as all parallelization ingredients (MPI, threading via TBB, SMD, GPU support) to successfully run simulations on both laptops and supercomputers (e.g. 300k processes on SuperMUC-NG). deal.II is freely available under LGPL 2.1 licence.
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+<img width="80%" src="../assets/4C_pictures.PNG">
+</center>
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+4C is a code for highly parallelized multiphysics computer simulations at the continuum scale. It is based on BACI, a code project that has been developed at the Institute for Computational Mechanics of the Technical University of Munich over more than a decade. We believe that research in our community will benefit significantly from such a tool, making our daily work more efficient. The development goes hand in hand with the progress being made within deal.II, which is also part of the HiRSE_PS project. There is a worldwide community driving deal.II, a C++ software library on which the 4C code relies heavily. It provides the finite element backend, linear algebra functionality as well as all parallelization ingredients (MPI, threading via TBB, SIMD, GPU support) to successfully run simulations on both laptops and supercomputers (e.g. 300,000 processes on SuperMUC-NG). deal.II is freely available under LGPL 2.1 license.
 
 
 ## Goals
@@ -28,4 +33,14 @@ toc: true
 
 ## Activities
 
-None yet.
+* Modernize code base to cope with latest hardware requirements to run efficiently on new HPC systems
+* Increase user friendliness by improved and unified documentation with a strong focus on new users and developers
+* Introduction of Continuous Benchmarking
+* Community building event to foster team spirit (Raitenhaslach, 1-3 February 2023)
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+<img width="50%" src="../assets/4C_Raitenhaslach-2023.JPG">
+</center>
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+* Next community building event in Herrsching am Ammersee, 25-27 September 2024
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