[petsc-dev] Alternatives to cholmod

[Jed Brown]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Dave Nystrom <dnystrom1 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I've been using cholmod from SuiteSparse for over a year now to solve one
> of
> my linear systems that is difficult to solve with an iterative method.  Are
> there other sparse direct solvers, such as clique, that I should try
> sometime?  My linear system is SPD and I am solving it on a single node.
>  My
> code has not yet been parallelized using MPI - it is only a 2D code.
>

Clique is a distributed memory package, though of course it can be used in
serial. You can also try MUMPS. But Cholmod should be a good package for
this scenario. Are you having problems with it or just looking for other
(likely slower) packages to spend time installing?
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