PETSc

Description

PETSc, The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation, is a suite of data structures and routines developed by Argonne National Laboratory for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It is the world’s most widely used parallel numerical software library for partial differential equations and sparse matrix computations.

Required Modules

Serial

intel
petsc

Parallel

intel
openmpi
petsc

System Variables

HPC_PETSC_DIR : installation directory
HPC_PETSC_BIN : executable directory
HPC_PETSC_LIB : library directory
HPC_PETSC_INC : include file directory

Citation

Satish Balay and William D. Gropp and Lois Curfman McInnes and Barry F. Smith, "PETSc Users Manual", ANL-95/11 - Revision 2.1.0, Argonne National Laboratory, 2001

Satish Balay and William D. Gropp and Lois Curfman McInnes and Barry F. Smith, "Efficient Management of Parallelism in Object Oriented Numerical Software Libraries", Modern Software Tools in Scientific Computing, Pages 163--202, Birkhauser Press, 1997