[petsc-dev] https://www.dursi.ca/post/hpc-is-dying-and-mpi-is-killing-it.html
Karl Rupp
rupp at iue.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Mar 18 22:48:01 CDT 2019
Hi Matt,
(...)
>
> His slides have more,
> "
> PETSc is a widely used library for large sparse iterative solves.
> Excellent and comprehensive library of solvers
> It is the basis of a significant number of home-made
> simulation codes
> It is notoriously hard to start getting running with;
> nontrivial even for experts to install.
>
>
> This is a typical parochial take by someone with very limited
> experience. People who routinely install a lot of libraries
> say that the install is very smooth. People like this who deal with only
> their own F90 and nothing else are scared. I would
> point out that if you want nothing else, pip install petsc works fine. I
> can't believe we have spent this much time on an idiot.
Please mind your language to meet new PETSc standards:
https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
Best regards,
Karli
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