Dear Dave, Thanks for suggestion and paper.
I am investigating the packages. Best regards, Farshid Mossaiby --- On Mon, 1/4/10, Dave May <dave.mayhem23 at gmail.com> wrote: > From: Dave May <dave.mayhem23 at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [petsc-users] A question > To: "PETSc users list" <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> > Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 11:47 AM > Hey Farshid, > > Maybe you can check out Tim Davis's SuiteSparse package, > ? http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse > which includes both UMFPACK and CHOLMOD. > > For comparison papers, there is this one which compares the > following solvers > BCSLIB-EXT, CHOLMOD, MA57, MUMPS, Oblio, PARDISO, SPOOLES, > SPRSBLKLLT, > TAUCS, UMFPACK, and WSMP on 87 large symmetric positive > definite > matrices. > > @article{1236465, > author = {Gould, Nicholas I. M. and Scott, Jennifer A. and > Hu, Yifan}, > title = {A numerical evaluation of sparse direct solvers > for the > solution of large sparse symmetric linear systems of > equations}, > journal = {ACM Trans. Math. Softw.}, > volume = {33}, > number = {2}, > year = {2007}, > issn = {0098-3500}, > pages = {10}, > doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1236463.1236465}, > publisher = {ACM}, > address = {New York, NY, USA}, > } > > and this one which compares MUMPS and SUPERLU > > @ARTICLE{Amestoy00analysisand, > ? ? author = {Patrick R. Amestoy and Iain S. Duff > and Jean-Yves > L'Excellent and Xiaoye S. Li}, > ? ? title = {Analysis and Comparison of Two > General Sparse Solvers for > Distributed Memory Computers}, > ? ? journal = {ACM Transactions on Mathematical > Software}, > ? ? year = {2000}, > ? ? volume = {27}, > ? ? pages = {2001} > } > > > Cheers, > ? Dave > > > > 2009/12/29 Farshid Mossaiby <mossaiby at yahoo.com> > > > > Thanks all for the replies and happy new year! > > > > I am also trying SuperLU MT for now. Anybody checked > IBM Watson Sparse Matrix Package (not open source)? > > > > http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wsmp/ > > > > Any hint on comparison between different solvers, in > terms of performance and memory usage for FEM problems? > > > > Best regards, > > Farshid Mossaiby > > > > --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Markus B?rg <buerg at kit.edu> > wrote: > > > > > From: Markus B?rg <buerg at kit.edu> > > > Subject: Re: [petsc-users] A question > > > To: "PETSc users list" <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> > > > Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 12:52 PM > > > Hello Farshid, > > > > > > what about MUMPS, PARDISO or UMFPACK? > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Markus > > > > > > > > > > > > Farshid Mossaiby schrieb: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Would somebody please suggest a *free* > direct solver > > > for a linux x64 SMP machine? Would be much > better, if open > > > source. > > > > > > > > Anybody has had success in compiling TAUCS > with cilk > > > support on linux x64? > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Farshid Mossaiby > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
