[petsc-users] Solving a Linear System with two different Solvers (one each thread)..?

[Jed Brown]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 15:47, Pedro Torres <torres.pedrozpk at gmail.com>wrote:

> I has some experience with PETSc + MPI, but neither with PETSc+Pthreads
> nor Pthreads alone. Taking in to account that pthread was recenltly added
> to petsc, is it possible to code a program that solve the same linear
> system with two different solvers, one on each thread?. I guess that can be
> done calling different ksp object, one on each thread,  but I don't have
> clear, first if this is possible and second how to do that. Sorry if my
> question is meaningless, I just started to study pthreads.
>
> I will really appreciated any advice. Thanks in advance.
>

No, the threading model does not work like this (and the performance of a
system that did work that way would be a delicate beast).
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