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Foil 54 PETSc Analysis

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
A rather different beast from the other tools
  • The "P" does not stand for "Parallel"
  • Most concurrency in user code, often MPI
Advantages:
  • Easy access to advanced numerical methods
Disadvantages:
  • Limited scope
Good for implicit or explicit PDE solutions

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