understanding the output from -info

Lisandro Dalcin dalcinl at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 22:03:20 CST 2007


On 2/10/07, Ben Tay <zonexo at gmail.com> wrote:
> In other words, for my CFD code, it is not possible to parallelize it
> effectively because the problem is too small?
>
> Is these true for all parallel solver, or just PETSc? I was hoping to reduce
> the runtime since mine is an unsteady problem which requires many steps to
> reach a periodic state and it takes many hours to reach it.

Can you describe your specific application and how are you solving it?
As Barry said, your need-for-speed is not likely to be solved by
running in parallel.


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