It provides a parallel Schur complement preconditioner which can evidently handle in a black-box fashion ill conditioned systems. I presume that the interface to HYPRE would be extremely similar in nature. Here are a couple of references:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/040608258 http://www.um.es/freefem/ff++/uploads/Main/henon.pdf It looks like the project may be dead, though, and I'm sure you're not keen on adopting any more stray puppies. Regards, John On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > I looked at the example codes and cannot conceive of any reason why we > would wish to or need to provide an interface to this software. > > Barry > > On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Hong Zhang <hzhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > A summer student project? > > Hong > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:27 PM, John Fettig <john.fettig at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> http://hips.gforge.inria.fr/ > >> > >> Has anybody thought about making an interface for this? I am guessing > the > >> interface would be very similar to some of the existing interfaces, so > it > >> shouldn't be too difficult. The documentation leaves something to be > >> desired, though. > >> > >> Regards, > >> John > >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20121211/e641b05d/attachment.html>
