On May 24, 2010, at 4:33 PM, jtg wrote:

>   solver               time
> -------------------------------------------
> pysparse            0m19.014s
> trilinos w 1 proc   1m33.709s
> trilinos w 4 proc   0m49.786s
> 
> It would appear that the parallelization is indeed
> working, but that it just doesn't have much to
> work with.  In each case I verified that the
> FIPY_SOLVERS env variable was set correctly,
> that I was using FiPy-2.1, and that the expected
> number of processors was engaged.  I did *not*
> explicitly specify a particular solver.

This is generally consistent with what I'm seeing my MacBook (2.26 GHz Intel 
Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM) running examples/phase/anisotropy.py (*with* viewers) for 
10 steps

solver             100x100         500x500        1000x1000

pysparse             5.75           65.8           287
Trilinos w 1 proc   12.6           176             844
Trilinos w 2 proc   13.7           134             710

This is not at all the optimal machine to test this on, but it's a data point. 
We will get some better benchmarks and try to develop some guidance as soon as 
possible.



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