                          SUNDIALS 
                        Shared Module
                 Release 2.7.0, Sep 2016


The family of solvers referred to as SUNDIALS consists of solvers 
ARKODE (ODE), CVODE (ODE), CVODES (ODE with sensitivity analysis 
capabilities), IDA (DAE), IDAS (DAE with sensitivity analysis 
capabilities), and KINSOL (for nonlinear algebraic systems).

The various solvers of this family share many subordinate modules contained
in this module:
- generic NVECTOR module
- generic linear solver modules (band, dense, lapack, sparse, pcg, spfgmr, spgmr, spbcg, sptfqmr)
- definitions of SUNDIALS types (realtype, booleantype)
- common math functions (RpowerI, SUNRpowerR, SUNRsqrt, SUNRabs,...)


A. Documentation
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All shared submodules are fully described in the user documentation for any of 
the SUNDIALS solvers [1-6]. A PDF file for the user guide for a particular solver
is available in the solver's subdirectory under doc/.


B. Installation
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For basic installation instructions see the file /sundials/INSTALL_NOTES. 
For complete installation instructions see any of the user guides.


C. References
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[1] A. C. Hindmarsh and R. Serban, "User Documentation for CVODE v2.8.2," 
    LLNL technical report UCRL-MA-208108, Aug 2015.

[2] A. C. Hindmarsh and R. Serban, "User Documentation for CVODES v2.8.2," 
    LLNL technical report UCRL-MA-208111, Aug 2015.

[3] A. C. Hindmarsh, R. Serban,and A. Collier, "User Documentation for IDA v2.8.2," 
    LLNL technical report UCRL-MA-208112, Aug 2015.

[4] R. Serban, C. Petra, and A. C. Hindmarsh  "User Documentation for IDAS v1.2.2," 
    LLNL technical report UCRL-SM-234051, Aug 2015.

[5] A. M. Collier, A. C. Hindmarsh, R. Serban,and C. S. Woodward, "User 
    Documentation for KINSOL v2.8.2," LLNL technical report UCRL-MA-208116, 
    Aug 2015.

[6] D. R. Reynolds, "User Documentation for ARKode v1.0.2," LLNL technical report
    LLNL-SM-668082, Aug 2015.


D. Releases
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v. 2.7.0 - Sep. 2016
v. 2.6.2 - Aug. 2015
v. 2.6.1 - Mar. 2015
v. 2.6.0 - Mar. 2015
v. 2.5.0 - Mar. 2012
v. 2.4.0 - May  2009
v. 2.3.0 - Nov. 2006
v. 2.2.0 - Mar. 2006
v. 2.1.1 - May. 2005
v. 2.1.0 - Apr. 2005
v. 2.0.2 - Mar. 2005
v. 2.0.1 - Jan. 2005
v. 2.0   - Dec. 2004
v. 1.0   - Jul. 2002 (first SUNDIALS release)
v. 0.0   - Mar. 2002


