Hello,

I am learning to use PetSc but am just a notice.  I have a rather basic 
question to ask and couldn't not find it on the achieves.

I am wanting to test the scalability of a Multigrid solver to the 3D Poisson 
equation.  I found ksp/ex22.c that seems to solve the problem that I'm 
interested in.  I ran it on a large server using different processors.  

The syntax that I use to run using MPI was 

./ex22 -da_grid_x 64 -da_grid_y 64 -da_grid_z 32

I tested it using 2, 4, 8, 16 cpus and found that the time increases.  See 
below.  Clearly there is something that I don't understand since the time 
should be reduced.

n               wtime
---------------------
2               3m58s
4               3m54s
8               5m51s
16              7m23s

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Best regrads,
Francis


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