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

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What's the purpose of the PaStiX solver? PETSc can be configured to
> download and use PaStiX.
>

(1) PaStiX was (and probably still is) completely broken via PETSc
(2) PETSc exposes almost no PaStiX options, and some PaStiX options
have a significant impact on performance

Likewise for MUMPS on point (2).

Garth

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