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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dag Lindbo wrote:
> Hello DOLFIN!
>
> I added an interface to the CHOLMOD sparse cholesky solver in the dolfin
> sandbox. CHOLMOD is written by the guy who wrote UMFPACK and it is part
> of the same distribution (both source and deb), so it really does not
> add a new dependency if included in the lib. CHOLMOD was benchmarked in
> this paper in ACM TOMS:
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1236463.1236465 and came out on
> top (for symmetric definite systems).
>
> Please pull from fenics.org:~dag/home/hg/dolfin

Nice. I just added it.

We should rename

  scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/umfpack.py

as

  scons/simula-scons/simula_scons/pkgconfiggenerators/suitesparse.py

and add a test for CHOLMOD. When that's done, the solver can be moved 
into dolfin/la.

Garth


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