[petsc-dev] [petsc-users] SAMG support

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:51 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 April 2016 at 11:53, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
> > includes), and have them add a single registration line after
> > PetscInitialize which makes the new solver usable just as the built-in
> > ones are (via the options database and command line arguments).
>
> Actually, if you build your plugin as a shared library, then you can just
>
> -dll_append pcsupercool.so
>
> and get it registered, no need to modify code.


Note that this is how I organized our class project:

  https://github.com/jag20/CAAM520SRM

and as you can see from the build system, its really easy.

  Thanks,

    Matt


>
> >
> > I don't know of any packages that actually do this - are there some?
> >
>
> Don't know. But I would argue that many packages currently in PETSc
> could be reworked as plugins very easily.
>
> Oh! Hold on. We have some support for writing "plugins" in Python, and
> we dynamically load the Python shared library to bootstrap the Python
> runtime and then petsc4py. And IMHO, this is quite a bit more
> complicated that plain C plugins.
>
> >
> > Is this a hassle for reasons I haven't thought through fully yet?
> >
>
> The only hassle would be to updating it after new PETSc releases. And
> BTW, you could keep your code compatible with older PETSc releases
> with proper processor guards.
>
> A minor issue with dynamically loadable plugins is that using the
> command line is the only way to configure the package is through the
> command line. But that's a fair price to pay for not having to ever
> modify (nor recompile) your code.
>
> > The specific interest I have in this is that a student of Olaf's has
> > been working with an interface to (non-MKL) PARDISO which I think
> > could be useful, and I'm also interested in there being an interface
> > to ILUPack.
> >
>
> Go for it. I can help with comments and review.
>
> PS: I'm not 100% sure about the status of dynamic lib loading in
> PETSc, but I can help with any required refactoring of that machinery
> to better support plugins.
>
> --
> Lisandro Dalcin
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