[petsc-dev] Adding Seq Dense MAGMA Mat

Harshad Sahasrabudhe hsahasra at purdue.edu
Tue Aug 27 23:06:05 CDT 2013


   > I haven't done this yet. I'll start working on it. But isn't it better
   > to start writing a magma class right away?

> No.  Always start with something that runs.  Then incrementally add your
> feature so that you can test each part.

Yes that is true, but in this case we will have to take a completely different approach to add new features. To add MatMatMult() and other features of magma, we will have to define magma matrix class at some point.

I am fine with adding just the LU factorization in dense.c for now.



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