Thanks, I'll look into what going wrong over the next few days.
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > the error is from petsc code saying this codepath to plapack is buggy. > > If you wish to debug plapack - you can comment out the following line > in src/mat/impls/dense/mpi/mpidense.c > > ?SETERRQ(PETSC_ERR_LIB,"Due to apparent bugs in PLAPACK,this is not currently > supported"); > > and then figureout if/why you are getting wrong numbers out of this call.. > > Satish > > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Kyle Wendt wrote: > >> 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? >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> > >> > >> >
