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+# HYPRE.jl
+
+[Julia][julia] interface to [HYPRE][hypre] (high performance preconditioners and solvers
+featuring multigrid methods for the solution of large, sparse linear systems of equations on
+massively parallel computers).
+
+[julia]: https://julialang.org/
+[hypre]: https://github.com/hypre-space/hypre