Dear Barry, I am sorry to interrupt your communication. However, regarding some applications, we need to use sparse and dense matrices. I know PETSc focuses on sparse matrix. However, I think it is better to provide some support for dense matrix using some external packages in PETSc. Thanks a lot.
Regards, Yujie On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > ? Some of the PETSc examples are crashing under some circumstances (like > with complex) using PLAPACK and valgrind is showing uninitialized variables > etc in PLAPACK code. I don't want to debug PLAPACK code, so will let it go > for this release. > > ?BUT, is there something else we can move to for petsc-dev in the future. > Should we throw away the use of PLAPACK and use FLAMELIB? Should we switch > to ScaLAPACK (just kidding?). I hate to bag dense parallell matrices from > PETSc completely but don't want to spend a lot of time on whatever we do > support. > > ? ?Barry > >
