Hi Matt You can start experimenting by using -pc_type hypre -pc_hypre_type boomeramg -help which will give you all the boomeramg options.
When I use it I get intermittent segfaults, which I couldn't resolve with the Hypre guys, so good luck. Yaron On 9/19/06, Matt Funk <mafunk at nmsu.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > i am trying to use boomeramg from hypre in petsc. What i am doing right > now is > simply do: > > m_ierr = PCSetType(m_pc,PCHYPRE);//CHKERRQ(ierr) > m_ierr = PCHYPRESetType(m_pc,"boomeramg"); > > then i do my kspsetup etc... > > i was wondering what other things i need to configure/set to properly use > the > hypre preconditioner with petsc. This is new to me, so i am not really > experienced with this (that is using external packages through petsc). > Also, > these are the only hypre calls i found in the manual pages. > > Maybe somebody with more experience can share some of their wisdom ..., or > point to a place where i can read up on it? > > > thanks > mat > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20060919/3d024681/attachment.htm>
