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Depends on #75 (this PR targets its branch, so the diff shows only this layer; it will be retargeted once the layers below merge).

Adds CuDSSSolver(), a solver for solve_sweep that runs the sparse complex factorisation and the multi-port solve on an NVIDIA GPU through cuDSS, in a new package extension FiniteElementMethodCUDSSExt loaded by using CUDA, CUDSS.

using CUDA, CUDSS
sweep = solve_sweep(model, ωs; solver = CuDSSSolver())

Untested on real hardware, compiles: loads, precompiles, JET and CSR-layout tests only. No cuDSS analysis, factorisation or solve has been run (the development machine has no NVIDIA GPU). To run the GPU tests on a CUDA machine, from the repository root:

GROUP=MaxwellGPU julia --project=. -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test()'

How it works

• Assembly stays on the CPU.
• First frequency: the operator is uploaded once as a CuSparseMatrixCSR{T, Int32}; the CSR layout and a CSC-to-CSR value permutation are computed once on the host; cuDSS runs analysis and factorization.
• Later frequencies: the new values are gathered on the host through that permutation, only nzVal is copied to the device, and cuDSS runs refactorization, reusing the analysis.
• All port columns of B are solved in one solve call and returned to the host.
• structure = "G" (general LU) is the default. structure = "S" selects cuDSS's complex symmetric LDLᵀ, which fits the complex symmetric (not Hermitian) Maxwell operator; CUDSS.jl documents it for complex values only from 1.0.

Dependencies

• New weak dependencies: CUDA (compat 6) and CUDSS (compat 0.8, 1).
• CUDSS.jl 1.0 cannot be resolved next to this package yet: ArrayInterface (≤ 7.30.2) and LinearSolve (5.18.3) cap CUDSS below 1 in their weak compat (CompatHelper: bump compat for CUDSS in [weakdeps] to 1, (keep existing compat) JuliaArrays/ArrayInterface.jl#513 is open). The extension uses only API that is the same in 0.8 and 1.0, so it picks up 1.0 once those caps lift.
• LinearSolve is not used for this solve.

Tests

• Maxwell group (CPU, 145/145): csr_layout and csr_values! against an independently built CSR, on a nonsymmetric matrix with a stored zero and on the WR-90 operator across two frequencies; error messages without the extension.
• New opt-in MaxwellGPU group (test/MaxwellGPU/Project.toml, not part of All, not run in CI; README explains the manual run): extension loading, JET @test_opt/@test_call on the solver, concrete return-type inference for the first and later frequencies, and a three-frequency WR-90 sweep compared with UMFPACK (S matrix and fields, rtol 1e-8) for "G", plus "S" on CUDSS ≥ 1, skipped unless CUDA.functional(). Here: 6 passed, GPU solve skipped, with CUDA 6.4.2 and CUDSS 0.8.1.
• QA 21/21, Runic clean. A deliberate mutation confirmed the JET tests catch a mistyped cuDSS call.

What the first CUDA run should check

• refactorization after the nzVal copy and cudss_update picks up the new values (the three frequencies' S matrices differ, and each matches UMFPACK).
• Accuracy against UMFPACK within rtol 1e-8 under cuDSS's default pivoting.
• "S" on CUDSS 1.x.
• Device memory on a large mesh (B, X and the factors are resident together).

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Benchmark Results (Julia v1)

Time benchmarks

	master	5a94689...	master / 5a94689...
construction/heat P1 10x10	9.52 ± 0.47 ms	9.72 ± 0.69 ms	0.979 ± 0.084
construction/heat P1 20x20	12.8 ± 0.46 ms	12.5 ± 0.5 ms	1.02 ± 0.055
time_to_load	6.62 ± 0.14 s	6.52 ± 0.029 s	1.02 ± 0.022

Memory benchmarks

	master	5a94689...	master / 5a94689...
construction/heat P1 10x10	0.0397 M allocs: 2.13 MB	0.0397 M allocs: 2.13 MB	1
construction/heat P1 20x20	0.0705 M allocs: 4.75 MB	0.0705 M allocs: 4.75 MB	1
time_to_load	0.2 k allocs: 11.8 kB	0.2 k allocs: 11.8 kB	1

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Independent review (Codex CLI v0.164.0 / gpt-6.1-sol), reviewer session 01a1c8d0-d885-7ce2-ac99-0f6893e44c3d, reviewed head 5c20966

• Verdict: CHANGES
• Risk assessment: medium-low (ML7: additive Maxwell public API and optional solvers; existing entry points and defaults are unchanged).
• Round / slot: 1 / 1

This is a blind code-only review by a session other than the PR author's, copied below from the reviewer's report with only the grading metadata removed. The posting agent did not re-run the reviewer's commands. A MERGE verdict is advice; merging is left to the maintainers.

Risk

medium-low (ML7: additive Maxwell public API and optional solvers; existing entry points and defaults are unchanged).

Blocking findings

• Verdict: CHANGES
• Round: 1
• Blocking priorities: P2, P2
• Deferred P2 issues: None supplied; no issues were inspected or filed.

1. [P2] src/maxwell/ports.jl:248 — lossy ports do not have the advertised power normalization. Confirmed by running. The documentation promises power waves, and WavePort accepts complex dielectric permittivity. For a TE10 electric amplitude c, real power is proportional to norm * Re(β/μr) * |c|²; the complex square root used here instead scales squared amplitudes by norm * |β/μr|. This computes pseudo waves, whose squared magnitudes need not be power fractions. With normalized units, a 1 × 0.5 guide, vacuum input, output eps_r = 2 - 4im, mu_r = 1, and ω = 5, a unit output mode gives |S21|² = 2.668622288174558 versus the analytic real-power ratio 2.210638826960549. An actual two-section solve also overstates transmitted real power by 20.717% (4.7519934489868385e-5 versus 3.936466119743859e-5). Document the pseudo-wave convention and its lossy-port power interpretation, restrict power-normalized ports to lossless media, or implement consistent real-power normalization. Add a lossy-port regression.

2. [P2] src/maxwell/ports.jl:102 — zero frequency poisons the entire absorbing operator with NaNs. Confirmed by running:

   m = MaxwellModel(generate_grid(Tetrahedron, (1, 1, 1));
       absorbing = ["top"], eps0 = 1.0, mu0 = 1.0)
   all(isfinite, maxwell_operator(m, 0.0).nzval) # false

   All 163 stored entries are non-finite, including for vacuum with zero conductivity, because the coefficient evaluates 0 / 0 before multiplication by ω. Its boundary coefficient has a zero limit. Either evaluate that limit safely or explicitly reject and document zero frequency at the public boundary. Add a regression; silently returning a NaN matrix is unsuitable for an unsupported domain.

Non-blocking findings

• docs/src/maxwell.md:73, test/MaxwellGPU/cudss.jl:25: the recommended CUDSS.jl 1 configuration cannot resolve. Pkg.add(PackageSpec(name="CUDSS", version="1")) failed: CUDSS 1.0.0 requires ArrayInterface ≤7.10.0, whereas the required DiffEqBase 7.21 requires ≥7.28.0. The documented symmetric configuration therefore cannot be installed with this dependency graph. My direct symmetric test passed on CUDSS 0.8.1. Align the instructions and test-version gate with a supported, resolvable configuration.
• src/maxwell/sweep.jl:46: an empty frequency vector throws BoundsError from first(omegas). Confirmed by running. Define the empty-input contract with an empty result or an explanatory ArgumentError.

What I ran

AI reviewer: codex-cli 0.164.0, model gpt-6.1-sol; local session identified above (no session URL). No author rating was read.

Tests used an exact git archive HEAD under scratch/checkout; the supplied checkout remained clean. Julia commands retained the runtime's layered JULIA_DEPOT_PATH and used the prescribed TMPDIR, a 12 GiB memory scope, four Julia threads and four precompile tasks. Probe/GPU runs used one BLAS thread. Paths below are relative to this review job; execution used their absolute equivalents.

• git diff origin/master...HEAD, affected source/tests/docs, root instruction-file checks (both absent), and git diff --check origin/master...HEAD (clean).
• julia --version: 1.13.2. No repository Manifest or interpreter lock was present.
• uv run --locked python --version: Python 3.15.0, with --locked has no effect when used outside of a project. There is no Python project or uv.lock; this does not establish a project-locked Python interpreter.
• GROUP=Maxwell julia --project=scratch/checkout -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test()': 145/145 passed (CSR 12, manufactured 4, model 80, ports 49). Manufactured H(curl) rates were 0.982/0.997 lossless and 0.967/0.993 lossy.
• julia --project=scratch/checkout scratch/probes-aligned.jl: 7/7 passed for dielectric/permeability-step convergence, reciprocity, flux, unit scaling and port orientation. Analytic interface error decreased from 0.023397 to 0.005713 (rate 2.034); flux was 0.999905. The initial scaling probe failed because its exact-threshold predicate assigned 24 different material cells after coordinate scaling. A coordinate-roundoff allowance corrected that input; the assertion retained rtol=1e-9.
• julia --project=scratch/checkout scratch/regressions.jl: two failed assertions, reproducing the two blocking findings. The power reference uses the analytic TE10 propagation constants, not stored solver output.
• NVIDIA inventory, CUDA.functional() == true, and a CUDA array arithmetic check on GPU 0, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q.
• Copied test/MaxwellGPU/Project.toml into scratch/gpu, developed the archived head, and ran the unchanged test/MaxwellGPU/cudss.jl: CUDA.jl 6.4.2, CUDSS.jl 0.8.1, 11/11 passed, including JET/inference and general-solver sweeps against UMFPACK.
• julia --project=scratch/gpu scratch/gpu-symmetric.jl: 4/4 passed for symmetric-solver scattering matrices and fields at three frequencies against UMFPACK.
• A separate environment with explicit Pkg.add(PackageSpec(name="CUDSS", version="1")): dependency-resolution failure described above.
• Final git status --porcelain=v1: empty; reviewed head unchanged. All started commands completed. No commits, pushes or GitHub posts.

What I did not verify

The full existing suite, QA group, documentation build, other Julia versions/platforms, CUDSS 1 execution, and performance/storage claims. A project-locked Python interpreter is unavailable because this is a Julia project without Python environment files. PR bodies, comments, reviews, earlier review artifacts and author risk ratings were not inspected.

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Review feedback on this PR has been addressed on head 6047b84. Master was merged in first (merge commits only, no rebase or force-push), then each finding was fixed with a regression test, and a Codex review of the branch approved with no open findings. All named CI checks are green on this head, including the Documentation job, which had one re-run after the gh-pages deploy push was rejected by a concurrent job (the docs build itself succeeded).

Stacked on #75.

Items deliberately left as they are: reaction coefficients that are subnormal but representable are still rejected (conservative); coefficients that cancel to zero only up to roundoff are rejected rather than compared with a tolerance; the absorbing-boundary adjoint derivative uses 0 for the sigma term at omega = 0 although the true limit is finite and nonzero.

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Independent review (Codex CLI v0.164.0 / gpt-6.1-sol), reviewer session 01a1ceeb-2c9f-7700-8292-8531720ad788, reviewed head 6047b84

• Verdict: CHANGES
• Risk assessment: medium-low (ML7: additive Maxwell public API and optional GPU solver; existing entry points and defaults are unchanged).
• Round / slot: 2 / 1

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CI: green
Session: 01a1ceeb-2c9f-7700-8292-8531720ad788

Risk

medium-low (ML7: additive Maxwell public API and optional GPU solver; existing entry points and defaults are unchanged).

Blocking findings

• Verdict: CHANGES
• Round: 2
• Blocking priorities: P2
• Deferred P2 issues: None supplied for this finding.

1. [P2] src/maxwell/model.jl:107 — overlap validation consumes one-pass port iterators before assembly. Confirmed by running the same probe on both heads. The new comprehension exhausts Iterators.Stateful; the assembly comprehension at line 136 consequently receives no ports. This silently omits the requested port boundary terms. A vector containing the same ports works on both heads.

   using FiniteElementMethod, Ferrite
   grid = generate_grid(Tetrahedron, (2, 1, 2), Vec(0., 0., 0.), Vec(2., 1., 2.))
   ports = [WavePort("bottom"; a_direction=(1,0,0)), WavePort("top"; a_direction=(1,0,0))]
   model = MaxwellModel(grid; pec=["left","right","front","back"],
       ports=Iterators.Stateful(ports), eps0=1., mu0=1.)
   length(model.ports)

   Observed 0 on this head versus 2 on 5c209662ffba98a16db2c4dff86d7bd623bd66b9. The assertion that both supplied ports survive fails on this head and passes on the previous head. Materialize ports once before validation and reuse that collection; add this regression to the suite. No follow-up issue evidence was supplied, so round-two P2 deferral is not established.

Non-blocking findings

None. Both prior blockers are resolved: lossy port materials are rejected, and zero-frequency absorbing operators have the correct finite limit.

What I ran

AI reviewer: codex-cli 0.164.0, model gpt-6.1-sol; local session identified above (no session URL). Risk was recorded independently; no author risk rating or same-head review was read.

Commands below used absolute equivalents of the job-relative paths shown. Tests ran against exact Git archives under scratch/checkout and scratch/before, preserving the runtime's layered JULIA_DEPOT_PATH and prescribed TMPDIR. Runs used 12 GiB scopes, four Julia threads, four precompile tasks and one BLAS thread; test batches ran sequentially.

• Whole PR diff, supplied delta, affected source/tests/docs, and supplied previous-head review. The delta matched git diff 5c209662ffba98a16db2c4dff86d7bd623bd66b9 HEAD. Root AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md are absent. git diff --check origin/master...HEAD was clean.
• julia --version: 1.13.2. No repository Manifest or interpreter pin was present; dependency resolution was confined to scratch environments and the writable job depot.
• uv run --locked python --version: Python 3.15.0, with warning that --locked has no effect outside a project. No Python project or uv.lock exists; this is not a project-locked Python interpreter.
• GROUP=Maxwell julia --project=scratch/checkout -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test()': 163/163 passed (CSR 12, manufactured 4, model 84, ports 63). Manufactured H(curl) rates were 0.982/0.997 lossless and 0.967/0.993 lossy.
• julia --project=scratch/checkout scratch/probes.jl: 40/40 passed, covering lossy-port rejection, the analytic absorbing-coefficient limit, overlap/partial-aperture guards, cutoff at the second port, empty sweeps, saved-buffer isolation and point-location fallback. The initial run had 39 passes and one error in my assertion: Ferrite's complex-vector norm returned a complex value. Converting its components to an array corrected the probe; tolerances were unchanged.
• scratch/prior-blockers.jl under each archived environment: three failed assertions on the previous head, 3/3 passed on the current head. Failures were lossy-port acceptance and NaN zero-frequency operators for vacuum and conducting material.
• NVIDIA inventory; GPU 0, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q. CUDA.functional() was true, and a CUDA array-arithmetic check passed. julia --project=scratch/gpu scratch/gpu-run.jl included the unchanged GPU test file: 11/11 passed, including JET/inference and general cuDSS sweeps/fields against UMFPACK. CUDA 6.4.2, CUDSS 0.8.1.
• Explicit Pkg.add(PackageSpec(name="CUDSS", version="1")) in a separate scratch environment failed resolution: CUDSS requires ArrayInterface ≤7.10, while DiffEqBase requires ≥7.28. This confirms the revised installation caveat.
• scratch/iterator.jl under both environments: current head 1 passed, 1 failed (exit 1); previous head 2/2 passed (exit 0), confirming the delta regression above.
• Final supplied-checkout status was clean and HEAD remained the reviewed SHA. All started commands finished. No source edits, commits, pushes or GitHub posts.

What I did not verify

The full existing suite, QA, documentation build, other Julia versions/platforms, symmetric cuDSS execution, and performance/storage claims. A project-locked Python environment is unavailable. CI green is supplied launch metadata, not independently queried. Apart from the supplied previous-head review, PR bodies, comments, reviews and deferred-issue metadata were not inspected.

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Follow-up to the latest review on head 5a94689: this branch now includes the fix that makes MaxwellModel collect ports once before overlap validation, so Iterators.Stateful ports are no longer consumed (the model previously ended up with zero ports); regression test added on the base branch.

Codex review of the branch approved with no open findings, and all named CI checks are green on this head. Merge commits only; no rebase or force-push.

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