This version of MUMPS has been developed by employees of 
CERFACS, CNRS, EDF, ENS Lyon, Toulouse INP-IRIT, Inria, 
Mumps Technologies, Sorbonne University and University of Bordeaux: 
Emmanuel Agullo, Patrick Amestoy, Maurice Bremond, Alfredo Buttari, Philippe
Combes, Marie Durand, Aurelia Fevre, Matthieu Gerest, Abdou Guermouche, 
Antoine Jego, Guillaume Joslin, Jacko Koster, Jean-Yves L'Excellent, Theo Mary,
Pierre-Etienne Polet, Stephane Pralet, Chiara Puglisi, Francois-Henry Rouet, 
Wissam Sid-Lakhdar, Tzvetomila Slavova, Bora Ucar and Clement Weisbecker.

Since January 2019, the MUMPS solver is maintained by Mumps Technologies
(http://mumps-tech.com).

We are grateful to Caroline Bousquet, Indranil Chowdhury, Christophe Daniel,
Iain Duff, Vincent Espirat, Gilles Moreau, Gregoire Richard, Alexis Salzman, 
Miroslav Tuma and Christophe Voemel who have been contributing to this project.

We are also grateful to Juergen Schulze for letting us distribute PORD developed
at the University of Paderborn. We thank Eddy Caron for the administration of a
server that has been used during many years for MUMPS.

We want to thank the French ANR programme, the European community, 
Airbus Group-IW, Altair, ANSYS, CINES, EDF, EMGS, ESI Group, FFT/Hexagon, 
Keysight, LBNL, LSTC, Michelin, NEC, SAFRAN, SAMTECH, Shell, Siemens, Synopsys, 
Total and University of Southern California for their support. 
We also thank LBNL, LSTC, PARALLAB and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 
for research discussions that have certainly influenced this work. 

Finally we want to thank the institutions that have provided access to their
parallel machines: Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Superieur
(CINES), CERFACS, CALMIP ("Centre Interuniversitaire de Calcul" located 
in Toulouse), Centre Blaise Pascal de Simulation et de Modélisation Numérique, 
Institut du Developpement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique (IDRIS), 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du 
Parallelisme, Inria, and PARALLAB.
