On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Kong, Fande <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Kathrin Smetana <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Dear libmesh users/developers,
> >
> > I have to solve a linear system of equations (system size approximately
> > 10^6) very often (about 5000 times). The linear system of equations is
> the
> > result of a FEM discretization of 3D linear elasticity.
> >
> > I thought about using a sparse Cholesky decomposition as the matrix is
> > symmetric or a sparse LU decomposition, depending on availability. I have
> > had a look at the Eigen package and their direct LU factorization for
> > instance with Umfpack or SuperLU support looks very promising to me.
> >
>
> I was wondering why you are going to use a direct solver?


Because she wants to solve the same system many times, and therefore saving
the factors would be worthwhile.

-- 
John
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