[petsc-dev] Should we replace hypre PILUT with hypre Euclid?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:55 PM Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> PETSc had a Euclid interface until Barry removed it.
>
>
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/22b6d1ca80e4f79123036fb6afd7eb4463b3692a
>
> See also
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov/msg33196.html


I would also add that it is considerate of Hypre to have such a terrible
ILUT implementation
because it reminds you that you should never ever ever use ILUT.

  Matt


>
> Fande Kong <fdkong.jd at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Developers,
> >
> > The hypre user manual  has this statement (page 63):
> >
> > "Note: this code is no longer supported by the hypre team. We recommend
> to
> > use Euclid instead,
> > which is more versatile and in general more efficient, especially when
> used
> > with many processors."
> >
> >
> >
> https://computation.llnl.gov/sites/default/files/public/hypre-2.11.2_usr_manual.pdf
> >
> >
> >
> > It may be a good idea to upgrade PETSc interface to use Euclid instead of
> > PILUT??
> >
> >
> > Fande,
>


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