
  This version of MUMPS is provided to you free of charge. It is public
  domain, based on public domain software developed during the Esprit IV
  European project PARASOL (1996-1999). Since this first public domain
  version in 1999, research and developments have been supported by the
  following institutions: CERFACS, CNRS, ENS Lyon, INPT(ENSEEIHT)-IRIT,
  INRIA, and University of Bordeaux.

  The MUMPS team at the moment of releasing this version includes
  Patrick Amestoy, Maurice Bremond, Alfredo Buttari, Abdou Guermouche,
  Guillaume Joslin, Jean-Yves L'Excellent, Francois-Henry Rouet, Bora
  Ucar and Clement Weisbecker.

  We are also grateful to Emmanuel Agullo, Caroline Bousquet, Indranil
  Chowdhury, Philippe Combes, Christophe Daniel, Iain Duff, Vincent Espirat,
  Aurelia Fevre, Jacko Koster, Stephane Pralet, Chiara Puglisi, Gregoire
  Richard, Tzvetomila Slavova, Miroslav Tuma and Christophe Voemel who
  have been contributing to this project.

  Up-to-date copies of the MUMPS package can be obtained
  from the Web pages:
  http://mumps.enseeiht.fr/  or  http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS


   THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
   EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.


  User documentation of any code that uses this software can
  include this complete notice. You can acknowledge (using
  references [1] and [2]) the contribution of this package
  in any scientific publication dependent upon the use of the
  package. You shall use reasonable endeavours to notify
  the authors of the package of this publication.

   [1] P. R. Amestoy, I. S. Duff, J. Koster and  J.-Y. L'Excellent,
   A fully asynchronous multifrontal solver using distributed dynamic
   scheduling, SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications,
   Vol 23, No 1, pp 15-41 (2001).

   [2] P. R. Amestoy and A. Guermouche and J.-Y. L'Excellent and
   S. Pralet, Hybrid scheduling for the parallel solution of linear
   systems. Parallel Computing Vol 32 (2), pp 136-156 (2006).

