[aspect-devel] Direct Solver in Aspect

[Timo Heister]

> I have no idea how difficult it would be to support any of this (I don't
> even recall who wrote the current interfaces...)

1. configure Trilinos with it
2. change one line in SolverDirect. :-)

> Yes, that occurred to me as well after I sent the last email. We currently
> drive the MPI_InitFinalize class with only a single thread, but maybe we
> should be using
>   n_cores/n_mpi_jobs_on_this_host
> instead? This would give us exactly the behavior you describe, while
> reverting back to the current state on machines that we fully load with MPI
> processes...

Yes. I was going to try things out first though. Maybe this could be a
runtime parameter...

-- 
Timo Heister
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~heister/