Re: [petsc-users] Difference between Block Jacobi and ILU?

2016-02-23 Thread Barry Smith
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Justin Chang wrote: > > Two more questions, somewhat related maybe. > > Is there a practical case where one would use plain Jacobi preconditioning > over ILU? For well conditioned problems an iteration of Jacobi is cheaper than an iteration of ILU (about 1/2

Re: [petsc-users] Difference between Block Jacobi and ILU?

2016-02-23 Thread Justin Chang
Two more questions, somewhat related maybe. Is there a practical case where one would use plain Jacobi preconditioning over ILU? Also, what exactly is happening when one uses -pc_bjacobi_blocks 2 ? Thanks, Justin On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Justin Chang wrote: > Thanks Satish, > > And ye

Re: [petsc-users] Difference between Block Jacobi and ILU?

2016-01-13 Thread Justin Chang
Thanks Satish, And yes I meant sequentially. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Satish Balay wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Justin Chang wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > What exactly is the difference between these two preconditioners? When I > > use them to solve a Galerkin finite element poisson pro

Re: [petsc-users] Difference between Block Jacobi and ILU?

2016-01-13 Thread Satish Balay
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Justin Chang wrote: > Hi all, > > What exactly is the difference between these two preconditioners? When I > use them to solve a Galerkin finite element poisson problem, I get the > exact same performance (iterations, wall-clock time, etc). you mean - when you run sequential

[petsc-users] Difference between Block Jacobi and ILU?

2016-01-13 Thread Justin Chang
Hi all, What exactly is the difference between these two preconditioners? When I use them to solve a Galerkin finite element poisson problem, I get the exact same performance (iterations, wall-clock time, etc). Only thing is I can't seem to use ILU in parallel though. Thanks, Justin