any examples to demonstrate how to Spooles package?

[Aron Ahmadia]

Hey Matt,

You should probably clean up the documentation for MatMatSolve while
you're at it, it's indicating that x and b are vectors...  Also,
should you reference the factor routine you need to use to get a
factored matrix?

~A

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Yujie <recrusader at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Dear Sanjay:
>  >
>  > Thank you for your reply. I don't understand what you said. Now, I want to
>  > use spooles package to inverse a sparse SPD matrix. I have further checked
>  > the inferface about spooles in PETSc. I find although spooles can deal with
>  > AX=B (B may be a dense matrix) with parallel LU factorization.
>  >  However, PETSc only provide the following:
>  > 51: PetscErrorCode MatSolve_MPISpooles(Mat A,Vec b,Vec x)
>  >  I don't set b to a matrix even if I use
>  >  178: PetscErrorCode MatFactorNumeric_MPISpooles(Mat A,MatFactorInfo
>  > *info,Mat *F) for LU factorization.
>  >
>  > Could you have any suggestions about this? thanks a lot.
>
>  MatMatSolve()
>
>  http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Mat/MatMatSolve.html
>
>    Matt
>
>
>
>  > Regards,
>  > Yujie
>  >
>  > On 2/26/08, Sanjay Govindjee <sanjay at ce.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>  > > from my make file
>  > >
>  > > -@${MPIRUN} -s all -np $(NPROC) $(PROGNAME) -ksp_type preonly
>  > > -ksp_monitor -pc_type cholesky -mat_type mpisbaijspooles -log_summary
>  > > -on_error_attach_debugger -mat_spooles_symmetryflag 0  -options_left
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > -sg
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Yujie wrote:
>  > > > Hi, everyone
>  > > >
>  > > > I have compiled PETSc with spooles. However, I try to find how to use
>  > > > this package in PETSc directory. I can't find any examples for it.
>  > > > Could you give me some advice? I want to use spooles to inverse a
>  > > > sparse matrix. thanks a lot.
>  > > >
>  > > > Regards,
>  > > > Yujie
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
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>  --
>  What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>  experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
>  their experiments lead.
>  -- Norbert Wiener
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