On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > Poor Jack, he should change his name immediately. > If even Robert can see past that, it tells you have fantastic Jack is. Matt > Barry > > On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > >> >> Some of the PETSc examples are crashing under some circumstances (like >> with complex) using PLAPACK and valgrind is showing uninitialized variables >> etc in PLAPACK code. I don't want to debug PLAPACK code, so will let it go >> for this release. >> >> BUT, is there something else we can move to for petsc-dev in the future. >> Should we throw away the use of PLAPACK and use FLAMELIB? Should we switch >> to ScaLAPACK (just kidding?). I hate to bag dense parallell matrices from >> PETSc completely but don't want to spend a lot of time on whatever we do >> support. > > > Perhaps there should be a map of Robert's software empire. However, these > things are disjoint: > > - FLAME: Serial LA algorithms generated from a worksheet specification > > - PLAPACK: Distributed parallel LA > > - FLASH: Multicore parallel LA generated from worksheet specification > > - Jack's code: Update of PLAPACK which has much better scalability > > Of course, I want to switch to the later. I am going to talk to Jack about > this when I am in Austin. He is > now the grad student of Lexing Ying, who if you don't know him, you really > should check him out. > > Matt > > >> >> Barry >> > -- > 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 > > > -- 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-dev/attachments/20100317/cb0d6d97/attachment.html>
