[petsc-users] petsc-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 54

[Hong Zhang]

Rongliang :
>
> I am using the petsc-3.1-p8 and I am trying to switch to the petsc-3.2.
> Is it very important to switch to the latest version?

Yes, very important. 3.1 is more than than two year old.
petsc-3.2 provides many
bugfixes, performance improvement and new solvers.
Your bug report was fixed in petsc-3.2.

Some of my friends are
> still using the petsc-3.0.
They are too lazy :-(
See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/changes/32.html
when updating your code to the latest petsc.

> Can the latest version improve the program's performance?
Yes, absolutely.

Hong
>
> Best,
> Rongliang
>
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>> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:32:40 -0500
>> From: Hong Zhang <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov>
>> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Matrix Factorization fill
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>> Rongliang:
>> Which petsc version do you use? Please switch to the latest release
>> petsc-3.2.
>>
>> Hong
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