Some questions regarding PETsc

[Matthew Knepley]

On 12/22/06, Ben Tay <zonexo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some questions regarding the use of PETsc...
>
> 1. Is Intel MKL much faster than the downloaded BLAS/LAPACK? Or is it true
> only for really large problem? Is ATLAS a good alternative too?

This depends heavily on the architecture and on the BLAS operations
used. I don't
think it much faster, but Satish may know better.

> 2. Can shared library be use in win32? I tried using --with-shared but after
> ./configure it still reports shared library disabled

No, we never had the time/manpower to implement the completely different Windows
paradigm for dynamic libraries.

   Matt

> Thank you very much
>
> Regards.


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