Re: [Libmesh-devel] convergence reason in PETSc nonlinear solver

2011-03-04 Thread John Peterson
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Vijay S. Mahadevan wrote: > Roy, > > I think it would be advisable that all libMesh users update themselves > to atleast petsc/slepc 3.0-p0. There are so many fixes/changes from > 2.3.3.->3.0 that it feels like they dont utilize the full potential of > the solvers.

Re: [Libmesh-devel] VTK output fails in parallel

2011-03-04 Thread Roy Stogner
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Roman Vetter wrote: > Judging from the latest VTK file format specification (4.2) apparently > existing on the web, mixed-number-of-component entities seem > unsupported. A field can be scalar or vectorial, but has a fixed > number of components for all nodes/elements either w