[petsc-dev] SuiteSparse 4.0

[Dave Nystrom]

Well, I tried it last night but without success.  I got a memory corruption
error when I tried running my app.  I suppose I should try first to get it
working with a petsc example.  I'm building SuiteSparse but only using
cholmod out of that package.  Several of the SuiteSparse packages use blas
but cholmod is the only one so far that has the option to use cublas.  Tim
gets about a 10x speedup over the single core result when using cublas on an
example problem that spends a lot of time in blas.  So seems worth trying.
Anyway, I think I must be doing something wrong so far.  But for the same
problem, Tim gets about a 20+ percent speedup over using multi-threaded Goto
blas.

Probably a better solution for petsc would be support for using cublas for
all of the petsc blas needs.  Why should just one petsc blas client have
access to cublas?  But not sure how much work is involved for that - I see it
is on the petsc ToDo list.  I will try again tonight but would welcome advice
or experiences from anyone else who has tried the new cholmod.

Dave

Jed Brown writes:
 > Nope, why don't you try it and send us a patch if you get it working.
 > 
 > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Dave Nystrom <dnystrom1 at comcast.net>wrote:
 > 
 > > Has anyone tried building petsc-dev to use cholmod-2.0 which is part of
 > > SuiteSparse-4.0 with the cholmod support for using cublas enabled?  I am
 > > interested in trying the cublas support for cholmod to see how it compares
 > > with mkl and goto for my solves.
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > >
 > > Dave
 > >