Ok, is there a way to get more detailed information as to what went wrong?
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Kyle Wendt wrote: > >> I also tried that and when i run my code i get this error: >> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message >> ------------------------------------ >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Error in external library! >> [0]PETSC ERROR: Due to apparent bugs in PLAPACK,this is not currently >> supported! > > ? The error message says it all. plapack is buggy and not supported. > Currently there no good options for general purpose parallel dense matrix > operations in PETSc. Sorry, our focus is on sparse matrix computations > because we can't do everything so we do what we do best. > > ? Barry > >> >> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >>> you need --download-plapack for this. >>> >>> [petsc does not use scalapack. Its a dependency of mumps - so you need >>> it only if using --download-mumps] >>> >>> Satish >>> >>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Kyle Wendt wrote: >>> >>>> I am trying to multiple two mpidense matrices with matmatmil and I get >>>> the following runtime error: >>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message >>>> ------------------------------------ >>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: No support for this operation for this object type! >>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: MatMatMult not supported for B of type mpidense! >>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.1.0, Patch 8, Thu Mar 17 >>>> 13:37:48 CDT 2011 >>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates. >>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting. >>>> >>>> I have built and linked petsc again scalapack and blacs but this have >>>> not helped, is this operation really not supported? >>>> >>> >>> > >
