On Aug 13, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]> wrote:

On 13 August 2012 13:40, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

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Should I remove all the MPIDense stuff from PETSc now? It is uses PLAPACK which is buggy and unsupported.

Do you mean to completely kill the subtype implementation?

Yes, people will use the new elemental interface for dense matrices. Will that not work for your needs? Could you live with a MPIDense that did not use PLAPACK? So had very limited functionality? Barry

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