<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Dave Nystrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dnystrom1@comcast.net" target="_blank">dnystrom1@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've been using cholmod from SuiteSparse for over a year now to solve one of<br>
my linear systems that is difficult to solve with an iterative method. Are<br>
there other sparse direct solvers, such as clique, that I should try<br>
sometime? My linear system is SPD and I am solving it on a single node. My<br>
code has not yet been parallelized using MPI - it is only a 2D code.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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?<br>
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