Acknowledgments#

We thank all PETSc users for their many suggestions, bug reports, and encouragement.

Recent contributors to PETSc can be seen by visualizing the history of the PETSc git repository, for example at github.com/petsc/petsc/graphs/contributors.

Earlier contributors to PETSc include:

  • Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad - the explicit Runge-Kutta implementations (TSRK)

  • G. Anciaux and J. Roman - the interfaces to the partitioning packages PTScotch, Chaco, and Party;

  • Allison Baker - the flexible GMRES (KSPFGMRES) and LGMRES (KSPLGMRES) code;

  • Chad Carroll - Win32 graphics;

  • Ethan Coon - the PetscBag and many bug fixes;

  • Cameron Cooper - portions of the VecScatter routines;

  • Patrick Farrell - PCPATCH and SNESPATCH;

  • Paulo Goldfeld - the balancing Neumann-Neumann preconditioner (PCNN);

  • Matt Hille;

  • Joel Malard - the BICGStab(l) implementation (KSPBCGSL);

  • Paul Mullowney, enhancements to portions of the NVIDIA GPU interface;

  • Dave May - the GCR implementation (KSPGCR);

  • Peter Mell - portions of the DMDA routines;

  • Richard Mills - the AIJPERM matrix format (MATAIJPERM) for the Cray X1 and universal F90 array interface;

  • Victor Minden - the NVIDIA GPU interface;

  • Lawrence Mitchell - PCPATCH and SNESPATCH;

  • Todd Munson - the LUSOL (sparse solver in MINOS) interface (MATSOLVERLUSOL) and several Krylov methods;

  • Adam Powell - the PETSc Debian package;

  • Robert Scheichl - the MINRES implementation (KSPMINRES);

  • Kerry Stevens - the pthread-based Vec and Mat classes plus the various thread pools (no longer available);

  • Karen Toonen - design and implementation of the original PETSc web pages from which the current pages have evolved from;

  • Desire Nuentsa Wakam - the deflated GMRES implementation (KSPDGMRES);

  • Florian Wechsung - PCPATCH and SNESPATCH;

  • Liyang Xu - the interface to PVODE, now SUNDIALS/CVODE (TSSUNDIALS).

The Toolkit for Advanced Optimization (TAO) developers especially thank Jorge Moré for his leadership, vision, and effort on previous versions of TAO. TAO has also benefited from the work of various researchers who have provided solvers, test problems, and interfaces. In particular, we acknowledge: Adam Denchfield, Elizabeth Dolan, Evan Gawlik, Michael Gertz, Xiang Huang, Lisa Grignon, Manojkumar Krishnan, Gabriel Lopez-Calva, Jarek Nieplocha, Boyana Norris, Hansol Suh, Stefan Wild, Limin Zhang, and Yurii Zinchenko. We also thank all TAO users for their comments, bug reports, and encouragement.

PETSc source code contains modified routines from the following public domain software packages:

  • LINPACK - dense matrix factorization and solve; converted to C using f2c and then hand-optimized for small matrix sizes, for block matrix data structures;

  • MINPACK - sequential matrix coloring routines for finite difference Jacobian evaluations; converted to C using f2c;

  • SPARSPAK - matrix reordering routines, converted to C using f2c;

  • libtfs - the efficient, parallel direct solver developed by Henry Tufo and Paul Fischer for the direct solution of a coarse grid problem (a linear system with very few degrees of freedom per processor).

PETSc interfaces to many external software packages including:

These are all optional packages and do not need to be installed to use PETSc.

PETSc software is developed and maintained using

  • Git revision control system

PETSc documentation has been generated using