On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Arun Kamath <arun.kamath.m at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hei! > I was going through the Petsc user archives when I came across a > discussion with Barry Smith regarding use of BoomerAMG through Petsc > (http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2006-October/000692.html). > > What I did understand from that is some of the Hypre options cannot > be accessed through Petsc. But options like Pilut are available as > preconditioners or solvers depnding on ksptype. > I am trying to use ILU smoothening to BoomerAMG (Hypre's manual lists the > smoothers available and the function calls). The questions that remain > after going through that discussion are: > > 1. Can a smoothening option in hypre's boomerAMG could be chosen at all > using Petsc? > Yes (although I do not see ILU in their docs). You can see all the BoomerAMG options with -help. > 2. Could the function calls phrases used in Hypre itself be somehow > employed in the Petsc code? > > Would be really grateful for any advice. Since I am using an IDE to build > the code, non-command line option tricks would also be of great help. > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Sys/PetscOptionsSetValue.html However, consider what you are doing. Changing code to run a different simulation, in the 21st century, is like hitching a horse to your Skoda. Matt > Arun Kamath > NTNU Trondheim > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20120829/3fe773b9/attachment.html>
