On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 09:46, Hamid M. <spam.wax at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1- Can I use PETSc to build/populate my LHS matrix on different nodes > of a cluster (as opposed to constructing it on a single node and then > distributing it) ? > You should always do this. > > 2- Are there optimized parallel solvers for dense matrices in PETSc ? > The current implementation uses PLAPACK. You might also consider using FMM (see http://barbagroup.bu.edu/Barba_group/PetFMM.html) since explicit storage of dense matrices cannot scale. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20110106/a7c3cbf3/attachment.htm>
