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Foil 52 Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computations (PETSc)

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
A higher-level approach to solving PDEs
  • Not parallel per se, but easy to use that way
User-level library provides:
  • Linear and nonlinear solvers
  • Standard and advanced options (e.g. parallel preconditioners)
Programmer supplies:
  • Application-specific set-up, data structures, PDE operators

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