[petsc-users] installation on cloud platform

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Marco Zocca <zocca.marco at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>   has anyone here tried/managed to install PETSc on e.g. Amazon AWS or
> the Google Compute Engine?
>
> I believe some extra components are needed for coordination, e.g.
> Kubernetes or Mesos (in turn requiring that the library be compiled
> within some sort of container, e.g. Docker), but I'm a bit lost amid
> all the options.
>

I have no idea what those even do.


> Are the MPI functions (e.g. broadcast, scatter, gather ..?) used by
> PETSc compatible with those platforms?
>

There are a bunch of papers documenting MPI performance on AWS. We just use
vanilla MPI,
so you request a configuration that has it installed.

   Matt


> Thank you in advance,
>
> Marco
>



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