[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] Is it possible to add KLU to petsc as external solver package?

[Barry Smith]

On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:39 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> 2011/11/4 Gong Ding <gdiso at ustc.edu>
> KLU developed by Prof Tim Davis is suitable for solve circuit sparse matrix.
> And it shares some component with UMFPACK.
> 
> It's certainly possible, it just takes time. Do you know why it is a separate package from Umfpack? Doesn't it do the same thing on a matrix of the same format, just using a different algorithm?

   University faculty == old style numerical software design. If it is a different algorithm the software needs to be different,  isn't that self-evident?