El 20/06/2014, a las 18:15, jifeng zhao escribió:

> Hi Jose,
> 
> Thank you very much. The instruction you gave is of particular useful. I do 
> think I can use deflation feature to reduce my subspace a lot. I will let you 
> know if I made further progress.
> 
> One more thing to check with you. I am right now using bJacobi as 
> preconditioner. I know it is among one of the simplest preconditioners, but 
> it turns out it gives faster convergence than SOR (maybe ASM). Is Hypre or 
> pARMS designed to be suited for FEM model, and will usually be faster than 
> bjacobi?   
> 
> Since Hypre or pARMS is external packages not readily available in SLEPc, I 
> need ask my server administrator to install it. So it is a not-so-easy job 
> for me.
> 
> Thank you so much,
> Jifeng Zhao

I don't know if they will be faster than block Jacobi.
Jose

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