You can install petsc-dev on the system yourself and use whatever solver you chose.
Barry On Oct 30, 2011, at 8:43 PM, Xiangdong Liang wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to solve linear system with sparse-direct solver on Kraken > Cray XT5 system. As I tested on our own small cluster, PaStiX works > better than superlu_dist and mumps. > > However, PaStix was not installed on Kraken, while superlu_dist and > mumps are installed as part of PETSc. I contact Kraken user support > and was told the PETSc library was built by Cray and specially > optimized for its structure. Do you happen to know the reason that > PaStiX was not included in Cray's PETSc module? Thanks. > > Best, > Xiangdong