[petsc-dev] Schur complement computation support from MKL_PARDISO

[Barry Smith]

> On Oct 8, 2015, at 3:24 AM, Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As I already did for MUMPS, I'm going to interface PETSc with the Schur complement feature of MKL. 
> 
> My plans are to add APIs for Schur complement handling to the MatFactor class instead of providing specific APIs for MKL and MUMPS; basically, I will change the MatMumps namespace to MatFactor one in the Schur complement calls; in case the factor does not support Schur complements, it will throw an error. You can take a look at src/mat/examples/tests/ex192.c
> 
> Is it ok for you?

  Sounds reasonable to me.


> 
> -- 
> Stefano