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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, August 15, 2008 15:06, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>
>
> 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.

I think it is perhaps better to add a new pkgconfig generator cholmod.py
and keep the old umfpack.py as it is. Is that okay with you?

Johannes