[petsc-dev] PETSc and threads

Jed Brown jed at jedbrown.org
Sat Jan 10 00:37:04 CST 2015


Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>   It is more than today, it seems sometime in the reason past you've
>   come around to the Rusty Lusk pure MPI model is the way to go (in
>   the abstract) but for whatever reason you never got around to or
>   wanted to state it explicitly. Sort of like the guy who accepted
>   Christ and starting bringing him up in conversation but never
>   actually came out to everyone about his new found faith.

Heh, well my null hypothesis is that MPI with neighborhood collectives
are sufficient to achieve solver performance as good or better than
anything else available.  Usability for legacy applications is a
different issue.
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