[petsc-users] MPI and Matrix Sharing

[Franco Milicchio]

> On Apr 26, 2017, at 4:02pm, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Franco Milicchio <fmilicchio at me.com <mailto:fmilicchio at me.com>> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am currently implementing a FEM software that runs on single hosts, as the DOF number is not big enough to distribute it. However, I need to solve several right hand sides, and to speed the process up, I’d like to share the matrix between processes, so that I could reuse the factorization.
> 
> My question is simple: is this a viable approach? 
> 
> Yes. This will happen automatically if you do not change the matrix in the KSP.

Thanks, Matthew, glad to hear that!
	Franco
	/fm

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Franco Milicchio <fmilicchio at me.com>

Department of Engineering
University Roma Tre
https://fmilicchio.bitbucket.io/

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