CCM Colloquium: Barry Smith (CCM)

Wednesday May 18, 2022, 10:00 AM → 11:00 AM America/New_York

3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute (162 5th Avenue)

A Gentle Introduction to PETSc

 PETSc is an MPI-based scalable solver library that provides a wide variety of sparse linear solvers, nonlinear solvers, time integrators, and optimization algorithms. Since solver needs are application-specific and simple black-box interfaces are rarely appropriate, the PETSc design focuses on the composability of algorithms and this composability representation in software, thus allowing users to construct the most appropriate particular solver for their problem(s) from a smallish set of building blocks. In addition, PETSc provides abstractions that map from the natural discretization language of the numerical problem to the algebraic structures the solvers need, thus removing some of the tedium of providing this mapping manually.  The presentation will provide some history of PETSc, how the software and community are organized, some of the challenges going forward, as well as a discussion of algorithm composability and discretization-based interfaces to solvers.

 

 

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