Matt: I recompiled petsc with the recommended options (and also trying some other options) but the error persists. on the linear solve table there is an X at the required solver package column for dense LU. What does it mean? On https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-3.2/docs/linearsolvertable.html it says "PLAPACK". Did you deprecate it? What is the replacement?
I do not see PLAPACK. You want Elemental. petsc-3.2 uses PLAPACK. We replaced PLAPACK with Elemental long time ago. Hong -- 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 https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/<http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
