<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 28, 2017, at 4:46pm, Satish Balay <<a href="mailto:balay@mcs.anl.gov" class="">balay@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Fri, 28 Apr 2017, Franco Milicchio wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Not recompiling your own project is fine. PETSc has an ABI. You just reconfigure/recompile PETSc with<br class="">ViennaCL support. Then you can use -mat_type viennacl etc.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Thanks for your answer, Matt, but I expressed myself in an ambiguous way.<br class=""><br class="">I cannot recompile PETSc, I can do whatever I want with my code.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">You can always install PETSc.<br class=""><br class="">If you don't have write permission to the install you are currently<br class="">using - you can start with a fresh tarball [of the same version], use<br class="">reconfigure*.py from the current install to configure - and install<br class="">your own copy [obviously at a different location.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Thanks, Satish.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As I understand, you are suggesting to just substitute PETSc at linking level with my ViennaCL-enabled library, and it should work “flawlessly”? (the milage may vary, obviously)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This would be a huge gain to the project.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Franco</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>/fm<br class=""><br class="">-- </div><div class="">Franco Milicchio <<a href="mailto:fmilicchio@me.com" class="">fmilicchio@me.com</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Department of Engineering</div><div class="">University Roma Tre</div></div><a href="https://fmilicchio.bitbucket.io/" class="">https://fmilicchio.bitbucket.io/</a></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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