[petsc-users] ILU(k) preconditioner version 3.6

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Feng Xing <snakexf at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, thank you. But, it’s for which reason that PETSc abandons ILU(k)?
>

The code was not being mantained and it constantly broke in PETSc tests. It
was not
worth our time to keep in the package, since the maintainers did not seem
to care.

   Matt


> Feng XING
> Postdoc INRIA
>
>
> > On 23 Feb 2016, at 18:39, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >
> >   Yes, it is no longer available. If you have found that it is
> definitely the best preconditioner for your problem then you should likely
> stick with release 3.5 Otherwise you can experiment with other
> preconditioners to determine a good replacement; this, of course, if very
> problem specific.
> >
> >   Barry
> >
> >> On Feb 23, 2016, at 2:46 AM, Feng Xing <snakexf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> I found in the release note of version 3.6 that "Removed -pc_hypre_type
> euclid due to bit-rot”.
> >>
> >> I would like to ask if there is no preconditioner ILU(k) for parallel
> aij matrix from 3.6?
> >>
> >> Thank you very much.
> >>
> >> Feng XING
> >> Postdoc INRIA
> >
>
>


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