Hi Barry, That's just what I'm thinking!
Thank you very much and have a nice day! Yours sincerely, Wee-Beng Tay Barry Smith wrote: > > Speed should be pretty much the same. > > I could interpret your question as: If one as a 3d PDE solver is it > worth writing a totally separate 2d code or can one just run the 3d > code with 2 dimensions? My answer to this question is, since code > development and maintenance is very time-consuming it makes sense to > just have one code. > > Barry > > On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Wee-Beng TAY wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure if my question is trivial but I'm wondering if it makes >> any difference in solving a Nx * Ny system and a Nx * Ny * 1 system >> in PETSc? For e.g., 10x10 vs. 10x10x1. Will there be any problem or >> difference in answer? What about the speed? >> >> -- >> Thank you very much and have a nice day! >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> Wee-Beng Tay >> > >
