Advanced PETSc

February 20, 2012
9 am to noon
J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Rd.
ROC 1.603
Austin, TX 78758

This class will be webcast.  There will be no labs.

Dr. Jed Brown, a PETSc core developer at Argonne National Lab, will present on some advanced features that have been recently added to the PETSc library.  A general working knowledge of PETSc will be assumed, see [0] for an introduction.  The list of topics, time permitting, will
include:

* multigrid and fieldsplit preconditioning for saddle point and stiff wave problems
* composition of nonlinear solvers
* solving variational inequalities
* time integration
* software design for coupled problems
* extending PETSc

[0] http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=802633ce-f165-407f-bec8-f0efca556e20&groupId=13601

Registration Closed.