[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #69763] PETSc and OSKI

[Barry Smith]

On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
>  Who put this in and does it do anything?
> 
> Jed did. As far as I know, this project is dead.

  Then that file should be removed from the repository. Remember the old frat house rule, never leave dead carcasses lying around the frat house for more than a day.

   Barry

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>    Matt
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>   Barry
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: Kadir Akbudak <kadir at cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
> > Date: April 8, 2011 6:42:40 AM CDT
> > To: petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: [petsc-maint #69763] PETSc and OSKI
> > Reply-To: petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov, Kadir Akbudak <kadir at cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
> >
> > Dear Sir or Madam,
> >
> > There is such a configuration script,
> > petsc-3.1-p8/config/PETSc/packages/oski.py, in the PETSc distribution.
> > Does this mean that PETSc uses OSKI sparse matrix-vector routines? If
> > yes, is it possible to use shared libraries? It is written as:
> > self.liblist   = [['oski/liboski_Tid.a','oski/liboski.a']] This means
> > the libraries are static.
> >
> > In fact I want to use benefits of OSKI together with my sparse matrix
> > ordering tool, in a numerical method which can be performed by PETSc.
> >
> > Yours Faithfully,
> >
> > Kadir
> >
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