[petsc-dev] SpMM question

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Have we considered using this
> >
> >   https://github.com/solomonik/ctf
> >
> > as an alternative sparse matrix-matrix code for GAMG? Or was it
> unsuitable
> > for some reason.
>
> I don't think we considered it for that purpose.  I'm not sure if its
> dynamicism would work against us here.
>

I took a look at the code. It is the worst kind of C-in-C++, It would
probably take 1 day to make a pure C version :)
The claim from Edgar is that it is intended to be used for this purpose
(have you read the arXiv thing with Torsten
about sparse tensor computing?).

   Matt

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experiments lead.
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