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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, August 18, 2008 11:34, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>
>
> Johannes Ring wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Fine with me. Can you add it?

Yes, I'm working on it.

Johannes