[petsc-users] PETSc publications

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Ronal Celaya <ronalcelayavzla at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi.
> The link http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~kaushik/Papers/pcfd99_gkks.pdf gives a
> 404 error
>
> I've found this link http://www.cs.odu.edu/~keyes/papers/pcfd99_gkks.pdf
> I think is the same article
>

Yes, that is the same.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> Regards,
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Ronal Celaya <ronalcelayavzla at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Are there publications and/or documentation that could help me gain an
>>> understanding of the algorithms and architecture of:
>>>
>>> 1. PETSc's sparse matrix-vector multiplication
>>>
>>
>> There is nice stuff in:
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~kaushik/Papers/pcfd99_gkks.pdf
>> and several discussions in the slides on the Tutorials page.
>>
>>
>>> 2. PETSc's CG algorithm
>>>
>>> I need to gain a deep and thorough understanding of these, but would
>>> prefer not to start with studying the code first. Any recommendations as to
>>> how to best approach my study I'd appreciate. I know how to use PETSc, and
>>> have a working knowledge of numerical linear algebra parallel algorithms.
>>>
>>
>> There is nothing special about -pc_type cg. It follows Saad's book (
>> http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~saad/IterMethBook_2ndEd.pdf) or
>> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake-papers/painless-conjugate-gradient.pdf
>>
>>   Thanks,
>>
>>       Matt
>>
>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ronal Celaya
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ronal Celaya
>



-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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