<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 3, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Yujie wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Barry:<br><br>Did you test them? I want to use this function. However, I am wondering whether there is some bugs in Petsc-dev. </blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> There is always the possibility of bugs in PETSc (or any software), if you have information about a</div><div>possible bug you have to send more than "is there some bugs", I cannot use "is there some bugs" to track</div><div>down the problem. Please send full output on what goes wrong.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> I ran our three plapack test problems src/mat/examples/tests ex103.c ex107.c and ex115.c to test my</div><div>changes.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">In addition, is it easy to convert the version from 2.3.3-p8 to petsc-dev? thanks a lot.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> The file src/docs/website/documentation/changes/dev.html shows the differences in petsc-dev from</div><div>the last release. In general they are small and code that uses petsc-2.3.3 can easily be changed to </div><div>use petsc-dev.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> Barry</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br> <br>Regards,<br>Yujie<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/4/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barry Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> <br> petsc-dev users,<br><br> I have changed the way PLAPACK is used in petsc-dev. There is no<br> longer<br> a MATPLAPACK that needs to be set, rather so long as PETS was config/<br> configure.py<br> using --download-plapack all you need do is use the MATMPIDENSE matrices<br> and PLAPACK will automatically be used for the solvers.<br><br> Barry<br><br> You should rm the externalpackages/plapack* routine before config/<br> configure.py the latest<br> Petsc-dev<br><br><br></blockquote></div> <br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>