[petsc-users] access suitesparse from petsc

[Manav Bhatia]

> On Feb 24, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
> Manav Bhatia <bhatiamanav at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Greetings! 
>> 
>>   What are the command line options to access suitesparse from petsc? I was not able to find any specification in the manual. 
> 
> Presumably you mean Umfpack or Cholmod.
> 
> -pc_type lu -pc_factor_mat_solver_package umfpack
> 
> -pc_type cholesky -pc_factor_mat_solver_package cholmod

Aha!

I was thinking that there would be something that would read like suitesparse. Thanks for the info.

Also, the suitesparse website talks of different orderings available (AMD, CAMD, COLAMD, and CCOLAMD). Are any of these accessible by command line options as well? 

Thanks,
Manav