<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Bartlett, Roscoe A. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bartlettra@ornl.gov" target="_blank">bartlettra@ornl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am not the one you have to convince. If it is so easy to upgraded, why have the Hydra-TH developers not upgraded already? Do you have a relationship with the Hydra-TH developers?</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Our strategy for scalable development is not to have a relationship with the people that use the software, other</div><div>than through <a href="mailto:petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov">petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov</a>. I cannot find this package on Google, other than mentioned in ORNL</div>
<div>advertisements.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im HOEnZb">
> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Jed Brown [mailto:<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>]<br>
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:30 AM<br>
> To: Bartlett, Roscoe A.; 'Barry Smith'<br>
> Cc: Matthew Knepley; <a href="mailto:petsc-trilinos-discussion@lists.mcs.anl.gov">petsc-trilinos-discussion@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a><br>
> Subject: RE: [Petsc-trilinos-discussion] Scope and requirements<br>
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</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> "Bartlett, Roscoe A." <<a href="mailto:bartlettra@ornl.gov">bartlettra@ornl.gov</a>> writes:<br>
> > It is just that the current approach of Hydra-TH using a different<br>
> > version of PETSc and ML from the rest of the VERA components will not<br>
> > allow them to couple in with other VERA codes.<br>
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> Maintained software upgrades to follow the current version of its<br>
> libraries and environment. We are not IBM or RedHat, and our customers<br>
> generally don't have the deep pockets required to offer full support for<br>
> ancient software versions. Upgrading should involve few (possibly zero)<br>
> source code changes, and those should be simple.<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener
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