[petsc-dev] GPU and multi-core threaded support in next release?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>    Are we prepared to support the GPU use in PETSc (with CUDA and OpenCL)
> and multi-core threaded support in the next release or only a subset or
> none? That is will we continue with requesting users to use petsc-dev for
> some (all) of the functionality?  If so, we should turn off the support in
> the release and print a nice helpful error message when configure is run
> requested an unsupported mode telling people to use petsc-dev. So we don't
> get tons of email from people who didn't read the docs carefully.


I still think things are too unstable for the release, and dev should be
more stable, so we should turn it off in the release.

   Matt


>
>    Barry
>
>


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