Adding Harwell-Boeing support in PETSc?

[Hong Zhang]

Richard,

We have code that read MatrixMarket format, and write
into a petsc binary file. Then you can use petsc MatLoad()
for viewing or computation.

Let me know if you like to have it.

Hong

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Richard Tran Mills wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> It seems that someone always wants me to either give them a matrix in
> Harwell-Boeing format, or to try experimenting with a matrix that they give me
> in Harwell-Boeing format.  I would prefer that the format just go away, but
> since this doesn't seem to be happening, I would like to have some PETSc
> support mechanisms for reading and writing the beasts.  I'd like to have
> something like a PETSC_VIEWER_HB for writing them out, and I'd like to have
> MatLoad() be able to use the viewer to load the matrices as well.
>
> I thought I might look into adding something like this, but before I waste
> time with it, I thought I would ask to folks if either a) they think it is a
> bad idea or b) someone has already got the code for this.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
>
>