[petsc-dev] A more positive thread

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Michele Weiland
<m.weiland at epcc.ed.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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.
>

Excellent. I will read over the report and mail questions.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> 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
> >
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> experiments lead.
> > -- Norbert Wiener
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