Solver problem

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Tim Kroeger <
tim.kroeger at cevis.uni-bremen.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Tim Kroeger wrote:
>
>  Would you recommend to try MUMPS as well?  (I.e., will MUMPS have a change
>> to be faster than ILU?)
>>
>
> It seems as if I can't use MUMPS since the cluster I am working on doesn't
> meet some system requirements.  (PETSc otherwise works fine on the cluster.)
>  However, I understand that PETSc also interfaces a large number of other
> sparse direct solvers.  Are there any recommendations about which one might
> be a good choice if MUMPS cannot be used?


You can try SuperLU_dist.

  Matt


>
> Best Regards,
>
> Tim
>
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