[petsc-users] A question

[Farshid Mossaiby]

Dear Dave,

Thanks for suggestion and paper.

I am investigating the packages.

Best regards,
Farshid Mossaiby

--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Dave May <dave.mayhem23 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave May <dave.mayhem23 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] A question
> To: "PETSc users list" <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 11:47 AM
> Hey Farshid,
> 
> Maybe you can check out Tim Davis's SuiteSparse package,
>   http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse
> which includes both UMFPACK and CHOLMOD.
> 
> For comparison papers, there is this one which compares the
> following solvers
> BCSLIB-EXT, CHOLMOD, MA57, MUMPS, Oblio, PARDISO, SPOOLES,
> SPRSBLKLLT,
> TAUCS, UMFPACK, and WSMP on 87 large symmetric positive
> definite
> matrices.
> 
> @article{1236465,
>  author = {Gould, Nicholas I. M. and Scott, Jennifer A. and
> Hu, Yifan},
>  title = {A numerical evaluation of sparse direct solvers
> for the
> solution of large sparse symmetric linear systems of
> equations},
>  journal = {ACM Trans. Math. Softw.},
>  volume = {33},
>  number = {2},
>  year = {2007},
>  issn = {0098-3500},
>  pages = {10},
>  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1236463.1236465},
>  publisher = {ACM},
>  address = {New York, NY, USA},
>  }
> 
> and this one which compares MUMPS and SUPERLU
> 
> @ARTICLE{Amestoy00analysisand,
>     author = {Patrick R. Amestoy and Iain S. Duff
> and Jean-Yves
> L'Excellent and Xiaoye S. Li},
>     title = {Analysis and Comparison of Two
> General Sparse Solvers for
> Distributed Memory Computers},
>     journal = {ACM Transactions on Mathematical
> Software},
>     year = {2000},
>     volume = {27},
>     pages = {2001}
> }
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>   Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 2009/12/29 Farshid Mossaiby <mossaiby at yahoo.com>
> >
> > Thanks all for the replies and happy new year!
> >
> > I am also trying SuperLU MT for now. Anybody checked
> IBM Watson Sparse Matrix Package (not open source)?
> >
> > http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wsmp/
> >
> > Any hint on comparison between different solvers, in
> terms of performance and memory usage for FEM problems?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Farshid Mossaiby
> >
> > --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Markus Bürg <buerg at kit.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Markus Bürg <buerg at kit.edu>
> > > Subject: Re: [petsc-users] A question
> > > To: "PETSc users list" <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> > > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 12:52 PM
> > > Hello Farshid,
> > >
> > > what about MUMPS, PARDISO or UMFPACK?
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Markus
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Farshid Mossaiby schrieb:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Would somebody please suggest a *free*
> direct solver
> > > for a linux x64 SMP machine? Would be much
> better, if open
> > > source.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody has had success in compiling TAUCS
> with cilk
> > > support on linux x64?
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Farshid Mossaiby
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