[petsc-users] Petsc direct solver

[Satish Balay]

You are misinterpreting Hong's statement.

Satish

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, amrit poudel wrote:

> Now that you mentioned I can set -pc_type to any of the available
> preconditioners and still use the specified direct solver, that
> cleared up my confusion.

> > You must include '-pc_type lu' to use mumps.  There are many
> > preconditioners for solving linear system, lu is one of pcs, and
> > mumps is one of packages implement lu.