[petsc-dev] Elemental for sparse, distributed-memory, direct, quad-precision linear solves?

[Jeff Hammond]

That depends on how many people are working on it [1] ;-)

Jeff

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:28 AM, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Aha, cool! How much work do you estimate remains?
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Stefano Zampini
> <stefano.zampini at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Interface to the sparse elemental solver is almost done in
> > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/branch/stefano_zampini/
> new-elemental-interface
> >
> > I did not have time to finish it, and I’m not sure if Elemental now
> supports
> > user-defined distributions for the vectors.
> >
> >
> > On Aug 23, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Can I use elemental to directly solve a sparse, distributed-memory
> >> (MPI), quad-precision linear system? If so, with the introduction of
> >> an interface, could this provide a way to support such a solve via an
> >> external package for PETSc?
> >
> >
> > I think you need Clique and I am not sure we have an interface. I would
> > check first.
> >
> >    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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