> This is an interesting development...
> 
> One thing I would warn against is tying ourselves too close to Petsc.
> I am currently waiting on a project to get green lighted where I will
> be tying Trilinos into libMesh... where we will have access to other
> matrix free solvers (like NOX, which can work with just residuals...
> doing finite differenced jacobians).  So coming up with a good
> interface where you actually don't interact with Petsc primitives
> would be ideal.  In most other places in the code you guys have done
> well at this exact thing... making it pretty easy to tie in a new set
> of linear/non-linear/transient solvers...

Keep me up to date on this...  Several times (several years ago) I started
looking into Trilinos but couldn't bring myself to write a new solver
package wrapper interface.  I'd be happy to help, though, especially if
you'd like some help with the configure stuff.

I really want to see that succeed.  A real parallel alternative to PETSc
will be good for everyone, and maybe it will help gain traction with some of
the other SNL folks.

-Ben


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