It provides a parallel Schur complement preconditioner which can evidently handle in a black-box fashion ill conditioned systems. I presume that the interface to HYPRE would be extremely similar in nature. Here are a couple of references:<br>
<br><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/040608258">http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/040608258</a><br><a href="http://www.um.es/freefem/ff++/uploads/Main/henon.pdf">http://www.um.es/freefem/ff++/uploads/Main/henon.pdf</a><br><br>
It looks like the project may be dead, though, and I'm sure you're not keen on adopting any more stray puppies.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I looked at the example codes and cannot conceive of any reason why we would wish to or need to provide an interface to this software.<br>
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Barry<br>
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On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Hong Zhang <<a href="mailto:hzhang@mcs.anl.gov">hzhang@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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> A summer student project?<br>
> Hong<br>
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> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:27 PM, John Fettig <<a href="mailto:john.fettig@gmail.com">john.fettig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <a href="http://hips.gforge.inria.fr/" target="_blank">http://hips.gforge.inria.fr/</a><br>
>><br>
>> Has anybody thought about making an interface for this? I am guessing the<br>
>> interface would be very similar to some of the existing interfaces, so it<br>
>> shouldn't be too difficult. The documentation leaves something to be<br>
>> desired, though.<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> John<br>
>><br>
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