User-Guide#
Argonne National Laboratory
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Prepared by
S. Balay 1, S. Abhyankar 1,2, M. F. Adams 3, S. Benson 1, J. Brown 1,10, P. Brune 1, K. Buschelman 1, E. M. Constantinescu 1, L. Dalcin 4, A. Dener 1, V. Eijkhout 6, J. Faibussowitsch 1,18, W. D. Gropp 1,18, V. Hapla 8, T. Isaac 1,14, P. Jolivet 12,22, D. Karpeev 1, D. Kaushik 1, M. G. Knepley 1,9, F. Kong 1,11, S. Kruger 15, D. A. May 7,21, L. Curfman McInnes 1, R. Tran Mills 1, L. Mitchell 13,20, T. Munson 1, J. E. Roman 16, K. Rupp 1,19, P. Sanan 1,8, J. Sarich 1, B. F. Smith 1,17, S. Zampini 4, H. Zhang 1,5, H. Zhang 1, and J. Zhang 1
This work was supported by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.
- Introduction to PETSc
- The Solvers in PETSc/TAO
- Vectors and Parallel Data
- Matrices
- KSP: Linear System Solvers
- SNES: Nonlinear Solvers
- TS: Scalable ODE and DAE Solvers
- Basic TS Options
- DAE Formulations
- Using Implicit-Explicit (IMEX) Methods
- GLEE methods
- Using fully implicit methods
- Using the Explicit Runge-Kutta timestepper with variable timesteps
- Special Cases
- Monitoring and visualizing solutions
- Error control via variable time-stepping
- Handling of discontinuities
- Explicit integrators with finite element mass matrices
- Performing sensitivity analysis with the TS ODE Solvers
- Using Sundials from PETSc
- Using TChem from PETSc
- Solving Steady-State Problems with Pseudo-Timestepping
- TAO: Optimization Solvers
- DM: Interfacing Between Solvers and Models/Discretizations
- Additional Information
- PETSc for Fortran Users
- Using MATLAB with PETSc
- Profiling
- Hints for Performance Tuning
- The Use of BLAS and LAPACK in PETSc and external libraries
- Other PETSc Features
- PETSc on a process subset
- Runtime Options
- Viewers: Looking at PETSc Objects
- Using SAWs with PETSc
- Debugging
- Error Handling
- Numbers
- Parallel Communication
- Graphics
- Developer Environments
- Emacs Users
- Visual Studio Code Users
- Vi and Vim Users
- Eclipse Users
- Qt Creator Users
- Visual Studio Users
- Xcode IDE Users
- Advanced Features of Matrices and Solvers
- Running PETSc Tests
- Acknowledgments