[petsc-dev] A more positive thread

[Michele Weiland]

Pramod (who did the work) was my student at EPCC last year. We looked at porting Fluidity (or bits of it) to GPU and as a result decided that working on PETSc's GPU support was going to be the most promising angle for the time we had available. We have never got round to benchmarking Fluidity with Pramod's extended sparse matrix format support, but it shouldn't be too much effort.

If you have any questions about it all, feel free to ask.

cheers,
Michele
On 10 Feb 2012, at 15:57, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> Has anyone taken a look at this:
> 
>   http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/PramodKumbhar.pdf
> 
> It is the Fluidity people I think. I have just gotten an NSF award with Dan Negrut
> in Wisconsin and Ahmed Sameh at Purdue to port Ahmed's SPIKE preconditioner
> (you may have heard Olaf Schenk talk about this) to PETSc, and in particular to
> PETSc's GPU backend so that Dan can run it on his GPU cluster. Thus, we will
> be seriously stressing this feature in the near future.
> 
>     Matt
> 
> -- 
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener

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