[petsc-dev] Elemental for sparse, distributed-memory, direct, quad-precision linear solves?

[Patrick Sanan]

Aha, cool! How much work do you estimate remains?

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Stefano Zampini
<stefano.zampini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interface to the sparse elemental solver is almost done in
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/branch/stefano_zampini/new-elemental-interface
>
> I did not have time to finish it, and I’m not sure if Elemental now supports
> user-defined distributions for the vectors.
>
>
> On Aug 23, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Can I use elemental to directly solve a sparse, distributed-memory
>> (MPI), quad-precision linear system? If so, with the introduction of
>> an interface, could this provide a way to support such a solve via an
>> external package for PETSc?
>
>
> I think you need Clique and I am not sure we have an interface. I would
> check first.
>
>    Matt
>
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