[petsc-dev] why does MatCreate_MPIDense still exist?

[Barry Smith]

On Aug 13, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 August 2012 13:40, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>    Should I remove all the MPIDense stuff from PETSc now?   It is uses PLAPACK which is buggy and unsupported.
>> 
> 
> Do you mean to completely kill the subtype implementation?

   Yes, people will use the new elemental interface for dense matrices.    Will that not work for your needs?  Could you live with a MPIDense that did not use PLAPACK? So had very limited functionality?

     Barry


    
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