Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Fri, August 15, 2008 15:06, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>
>> Dag Lindbo wrote:
>>> Hello DOLFIN!
>>>
>>> I added an interface to the CHOLMOD sparse cholesky solver in the dolfin
>>> sandbox. CHOLMOD is written by the guy who wrote UMFPACK and it is part
>>> of the same distribution (both source and deb), so it really does not
>>> add a new dependency if included in the lib. CHOLMOD was benchmarked in
>>> this paper in ACM TOMS:
>>> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1236463.1236465 and came out on
>>> top (for symmetric definite systems).
>>>
>>> Please pull from fenics.org:~dag/home/hg/dolfin
>>>
>> Nice. I just added it.
>>
>> We should rename
>>
>>    scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/umfpack.py
>>
>> as
>>
>>    scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/suitesparse.py
>>
>> and add a test for CHOLMOD. When that's done, the solver can be moved
>> into dolfin/la.
> 
> I think it is perhaps better to add a new pkgconfig generator cholmod.py
> and keep the old umfpack.py as it is. Is that okay with you?
>

Fine with me. Can you add it?

Garth

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> 
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