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?
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >
>> >
>>
>

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