Dear Pai,

> In TrilinosWrappers:: I found two amg 
> preconditioner: PreconditionerAMGMueLu 
> > and PreconditionerAMG. What is the general difference between these two 
> > preconditioners? For a linear elasticity problem, which one should I 
> use? 
>
> Pai -- PreconditionerAMG uses the Trilinos package ML, whereas 
> PreconditionerAMGMueLu uses the Trilinos package MueLu. MueLu is a more 
> modern 
> implementation of the same ideas. I don't think they are vastly different 
> in 
> performance. 
>
> Best 
>   W. 
>

I recently switched over parts of my codes from using PreconditionerAMG to 
MueLu for a linear elasticity computation.
The performance difference is slight, but MueLu offers you more 
oppertunities to tune  your preconditioner.
If you start implementing nowadays I would prefer to use MueLu.

Best
  Uwe

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