<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:21 PM, w_ang_temp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:w_ang_temp@163.com" target="_blank">w_ang_temp@163.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> Is it true that BJacobi preconditioner is only one type of ASM preconditioner(overlap=0), it is only one part of ASM?<br>
I find that sometimes the two have the same results while sometimes they are not. Is the reason that PETSc can <br>internally get the better parameter when using ASM, and sometimes it use overlap=0 then ASM and BJacobi have the same<br>
results.<br> If it is true, ASM is always better than BJacobi?</div></blockquote></div><br>BJacobi is slightly more efficient to implement, but -pc_type asm -pc_asm_overlap 0 is block Jacobi.</div></div>