This version of MUMPS has been developed by employees of CERFACS, ENS Lyon,
INPT(ENSEEIHT)-IRIT, Inria, Mumps Technologies and University of Bordeaux: 
Emmanuel Agullo, Patrick Amestoy, Maurice Bremond, Alfredo Buttari, Philippe
Combes, Marie Durand, Aurelia Fevre, Abdou Guermouche, Guillaume Joslin,
Jacko Koster, Jean-Yves L'Excellent, Theo Mary, 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 used on a daily basis 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, LBNL, LSTC, Michelin, NEC, SAFRAN, SAMTECH, Shell, Siemens, Total 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),
Federation Lyonnaise de Calcul Haute-Performance, Institut du Developpement et
des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique (IDRIS), Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme, Inria, and PARALLAB.
