[petsc-users] A question

[Dave May]

Hey Farshid,

Maybe you can check out Tim Davis's SuiteSparse package,
  http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse
which includes both UMFPACK and CHOLMOD.

For comparison papers, there is this one which compares the following solvers
BCSLIB-EXT, CHOLMOD, MA57, MUMPS, Oblio, PARDISO, SPOOLES, SPRSBLKLLT,
TAUCS, UMFPACK, and WSMP on 87 large symmetric positive definite
matrices.

@article{1236465,
 author = {Gould, Nicholas I. M. and Scott, Jennifer A. and Hu, Yifan},
 title = {A numerical evaluation of sparse direct solvers for the
solution of large sparse symmetric linear systems of equations},
 journal = {ACM Trans. Math. Softw.},
 volume = {33},
 number = {2},
 year = {2007},
 issn = {0098-3500},
 pages = {10},
 doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1236463.1236465},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 }

and this one which compares MUMPS and SUPERLU

@ARTICLE{Amestoy00analysisand,
    author = {Patrick R. Amestoy and Iain S. Duff and Jean-Yves
L'Excellent and Xiaoye S. Li},
    title = {Analysis and Comparison of Two General Sparse Solvers for
Distributed Memory Computers},
    journal = {ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software},
    year = {2000},
    volume = {27},
    pages = {2001}
}


Cheers,
  Dave



2009/12/29 Farshid Mossaiby <mossaiby at yahoo.com>
>
> Thanks all for the replies and happy new year!
>
> I am also trying SuperLU MT for now. Anybody checked IBM Watson Sparse Matrix Package (not open source)?
>
> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wsmp/
>
> Any hint on comparison between different solvers, in terms of performance and memory usage for FEM problems?
>
> Best regards,
> Farshid Mossaiby
>
> --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Markus Bürg <buerg at kit.edu> wrote:
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> > From: Markus Bürg <buerg at kit.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [petsc-users] A question
> > To: "PETSc users list" <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 12:52 PM
> > Hello Farshid,
> >
> > what about MUMPS, PARDISO or UMFPACK?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Markus
> >
> >
> >
> > Farshid Mossaiby schrieb:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Would somebody please suggest a *free* direct solver
> > for a linux x64 SMP machine? Would be much better, if open
> > source.
> > >
> > > Anybody has had success in compiling TAUCS with cilk
> > support on linux x64?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Farshid Mossaiby
> > >
> > >
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