Dear Developers,

In short, I need to explicitly use A.solveBackward(b, x) in parallel with 
petsc4py, where A is a Cholesky factored matrix, but it seems that this is not 
supported (e.g., for mumps and superlu_dist factorization solver backend). Is 
it possible to work around this?

In detail, the problem I need to solve is to generate a set of correlated 
random numbers (denoted by a vector, w) from an uncorrelated one (denoted by a 
vector n). Denote the covariance matrix of n as C (symmetric). One needs to 
first factorize C, C = L L^T, and then solve the linear system L^T w = n for w 
in parallel. Is it possible to reformulate this problem for it to be 
implemented using petsc4py?

Thank you!
Yin

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