I encountered several reliability issues (seg-faults and bad error handling) years ago around the time the interface first went in, and have only tried it a few times since. Thanks for the updated perspective, Garth.
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > Thanks for the info. It is unlikely we will drop MUMPS but we should > likely robustly our interface with PaStiX. In particular with the hybrid > threads-MPI PETSc stuff Shri and Jed are working on the hybrid PaStiX fits > naturally. So any patches you wish to submit for the PETSc-PaStiX interface > or ideas on how to improve/extend it are appreciated. The honest truth is > that currently it is pretty much an unattended baby and a little love would > help it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20121109/f6eb7e9e/attachment.html>
