
            micMAGMA Release Notes
	
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micMAGMA is an Intel MIC port of MAGMA. 

Included are routines for the following algorithms:

    * LU, QR, and Cholesky factorizations in both real and complex
      arithmetic (single and double);
    * Hessenberg, bidiagonal, and tridiagonal reductions in both real
      and complex arithmetic (single and double);
    * Linear and eigen-problem solvers.
 
 1.1.0 - November 20, 2013
    * Added LU, QR, and Cholesky factorizations and solvers with CPU interfaces
    * Performance improvements for the two-sided reductions to Hessenberg, 
      bidiagonal, and tridiagonal forms
	* Added eigensolvers for symmetric and non-symmetric eigenproblems
	* Added SVD routine
	* Added orthogonal transformation routines
    * Added general matrix inversion (routine {z|c|d|s}getri)  
    * Performance improvements for the one-sided factorizations using single
      and multiple MICs

 1.0.0 - May 3, 2013
    * Added multiple MIC LU factorization (routines {z|c|d|s}getrf_mmic)
    * Added multiple MIC QR factorization (routines {z|c|d|s}geqrf_mmic)
    * Added multiple MIC Cholesky factorization (routines {z|c|d|s}potrf_mmic)
    * Performance improvements for the single MIC LU, QR, and Cholesky
      factorizations 
    * Added LU factorization in CPU interface 
    * Added mixed-precision iterative refinement LU solver
      (with CPU and MIC interfaces)
    * Added reduction to band diagonal for Hermitian/symmetric matrices 
      (routines {z|c|d|s}hetrd_he2hb)
    * Added Hessenberg reduction algorithm ({z|c|d|s}gehrd)
    * Added reduction to tridiagonal for Hermitian/symmetric matrices
      (routines {zhe|che|dsy|ssy}trd)
    * Added reduction to bidiagonal (routines {z|c|d|s}gebrd)
    * Added {zun|cun|dor|sor}gqr
    * Added {zun|cun|dor|sor}ghr
    * Added {zun|cun|dor|sor}mqr_mic.cpp
    * Added GEMV benchmark to test MIC's bandwidth

 0.3.0 - 11-13-2012
    * Performance optimizations

 0.2.0 - 06-29-2012
    * Linear solvers based on LU and Cholesky for correspondingly general
      and symmetric dense matrices
    * Least squares solver based on the QR factorization

 0.1.0 - 04-01-2012
    * LU, QR, and Cholesky dense matrix factorizations
    * Auxiliary MIC kernels
