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The major changes to VTK-m from (previous release) can be found in:
  docs/changelog/1.8.0/release-notes.md

GCC 11 is having trouble compiling brigand.hpp at all, even before we
instantiate any templates. Since we no longer need it, let's get rid of
it. It was always placed in an internal namespace.

The major changes to VTK-m from 1.7.0 can be found in:
  docs/changelog/1.7.1/release-notes.md' version.txt

The major changes to VTK-m from (1.6.0) can be found in:
docs/changelog/1.7/release-notes.md

Also add a note to the release instructions to update the license
file on each release.

Signed-off-by: Vicente Adolfo Bolea Sanchez <vicente.bolea@kitware.com>

Code extracted from:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/third-party/diy2.git

at commit 2153469e21736806f766e59e73aff5ad790b9dfa (for/vtk-m).

Diy Upstream authored Apr 09, 2019 and Maynard, Robert committed Apr 09, 2019

Code extracted from:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/third-party/diy2.git

at commit f7a68da4fbe93ae7a8699b66f125a98ace842998 (for/vtk-m).

Do not check for the copyright statement for files in the third party
directory. These files shouldn't have the VTK-m copyright. Frankly, I
don't understand why this has not been a problem before.

Code extracted from:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/third-party/taotuple.git

at commit ae4936580baf117373e73c23f0f8407d7589e6ff (for/vtk-m).

Parallel radix sorting will be invoked in DeviceAdapterAlgorthmTBB.h when
the input is ArrayHandle<T, vtkm::cont::StorageTagBasic> where T is one of
the following basic C++ types:

unsigned int
unsigned short int
unsigned long int
unsigned long long int
unsigned char
char16_t
char32_t
wchar_t
char
short
int
long long
signed char
float
double

If a comparison operator is provided, it must be type std::less<T> or std::greater<T>.

Radix sort implementation is Satish parallel radix sort as documented in the
following citation:

  Fast sort on CPUs and GPUs: a case for bandwidth oblivious SIMD sort.
    N. Satish, C. Kim, J. Chhugani, A. D. Nguyen, V. W. Lee, D. Kim, and P. Dubey.
    In Proc. SIGMOD, pages 351–362, 2010

Implementation is based on Takuya Akiba's GitHub source code with the following
changes:

   - Changed parallel threading from OpenMP to TBB tasks
   - Removed pair sorting
   - Added minimum threshold for parallel, will instead invoke serial radix sort (kxsort)
   - Added std::greater<T> and std::less<T> to interface for descending order sorts
   - Added can_use_parallel_radix_sort<T, F>() function to determine if parallel radix sorting
     is possible for type T and compare function F (fallback is std::sort() if not possible)
   - Added linear scaling of threads used by the algorithm for more stable performance
     on machines with lots of available threads (KNL and Haswell)

Added kxsort (serial MSD radix sort by Dinghua Li via GitHub) implementation without modification.

Code extracted from:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/third-party/diy2.git

at commit aa778e24a40ec6d39c4f8b43eb4bdb4f2708219a (for/vtk-m).

Sandia National Laboratories recently changed management from the
Sandia Corporation to the National Technology & Engineering Solutions
of Sandia, LLC (NTESS). The copyright statements need to be updated
accordingly.

In addition to keeping the version number accurate, this will help us
differentiate between-the-numbers commits.

Add DeviceAdapterAlgorithm as an include to the TransferToOpenGL
file.

Clean up comments in opengl/cuda/internal/TransferToOpenGL.h

Add FindGLEW.cmake to the License exepmtion list