Parallel petsc with external UMFPACK

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Lars Rindorf
<Lars.Rindorf at teknologisk.dk> wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> I'm thinking about using petsc to solve a linear system (Ax=b) using
> parallelization on a couple of linux computers. It is very important for my
> system (electromagnetics) to use a direct solver, such as UMFPACK. Iterative
> solvers perform very poorly.
>
> My question is:  I can see that UMFPACK is not listed
> (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-2/documentation/linearsolvertable.html)
> on the petsc page. Are there any plans to expand petsc to also include
> petsc?
>
> The UMFPACK homepage says that there exist a parallization for UMFPACK by
> Steve Hadfield. Can his parallelization be used with petsc?

If you can find it, please send the URL. I looked this morning and
could not locate
this parallel UMFPACK on the web, which makes me very suspicious. We
only like to
wrap supported software, not one-off projects that continually break because no
one is maintaining them.

    Matt

> I must add, that although I like numerics and maths I do not intend to
> program 'from scratch'.
>
> Kind regards
> Lars Rindorf
>
>
>
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