[Users] PETSc in Cactus

[Erik Schnetter]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 04:06:16, Wong Sum Thai wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just started working with Cactus with the intention of using  
> PETSc as
> the underlying solver. Although I have yet to set up PETSc with  
> Cactus, I
> would like to know if I configure Cactus to use MPI, should I still  
> compile
> PETSc to use MPI as well? In this case, since Cactus is already  
> distributed
> among multiple processors, then PETSc will follow even if it is not  
> compile
> to use MPI.


Hi,

Cactus requires that PETSc is already installed independently of  
Cactus.  It can use only those features of PETSc which are already  
built in -- while PETSc solves a system, it has complete control for a  
short time to achieve maximum efficiency.  If you want to solve a  
system in parallel, both Cactus and PETSc need to be built with MPI.

-erik

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