Implementing an ADI method in parallel

[David Knezevic]

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> Or for  uniproc solves - you can create as many solver objects
> as you need with MPI_COMM_SELF or PETSC_COMM_SELF, on each proc
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Yep, I realised that after I sent the original email. It's working great 
so far! Thanks!

Cheers,
David


>> On 8/24/07, David Knezevic <david.knezevic at balliol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> Hello,
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>>> I was hoping to get some advice on whether the following is possible in
>>> PETSc: I want to implement an ADI-like method, in which I want to do
>>> multiple uniprocessor linear solves concurrently (each linear solve is
>>> quite small, but there are a lot of them).
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>>> This isn't what PETSc is designed for I guess, since one would typically
>>> do one large solve with multiple processors, but I was wondering if
>>> there is a good way of implementing this kind of ADI-like method in
>>> PETSc? Or should I instead implement this kind of thing using a serial
>>> linear solver, and control the concurrent solves with MPI? I'd prefer to
>>> stick to PETSc if possible, since it has so much nice functionality
>>> bundled in it, and has a lot of the MPI stuff already taken care of...
>>>
>>> Thanks very much for the help.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> David Knezevic
>>>
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