[petsc-users] command line option for external packages

[Jed Brown]

On 06 Jan 2010 15:07:18 -0600, hxie at umn.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I want to use hypre, should the runtime option be
> "-pc_type hypre -pc_type_hypre boomeramg -ksp_type gmres"? And I do not
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

should be

  -pc_hypre_type boomeramg

(BoomerAMG is the default for Hypre from PETSc-3.0.0 onward).  You can
always run with

  -pc_type hypre -help |grep pc_hypre

to find all Hypre-related options (similarly with ML and other PCs,
KSPs, etc).

Jed