Differents number of iterations with the same problem

[Barry Smith]

  With jacobi it probably requires a lot of iterations? Then it would
not supprise me to have a slight difference in iteration count. If
it is taking 1000's of iterations then I would expect large differences
in iteration count.

    Barry

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, LECAS Dimitri wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I'm surprised to not have the same numbers of iterations when i run
> several instance of my program with the same number of processors and
> the same matrix/right hand side. Is there some random or it's
> asynchronous message passing fault ?
> 
> PS:  My code used KSPSolve with bicg and jacobi for pc)
> 
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