Preconditioner for bicg

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Oct 11 16:50:15 CDT 2007


  For some preconditioners it is simply not easily possible to apply the 
transpose of the preconditioner. Even multigrid requires some work to do this.

   Barry


On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Keita Teranishi wrote:

> Hi,
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> I'd like to make sure preconditioners supported for bicg. I found bicg only accepts preconditioners that is interfaced through PCApplyTranspose.
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> For this reason, I see several preconditioners fails with bicg.
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> Thanks,
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>  Keita Teranishi
>  Math Software Group
>  Cray Inc.
>  keita at cray.com
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