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  • PETSc in a nutshell
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    • Introduction to PETSc
      • About This Manual
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      • Matrix Operations (Mat)
      • Matrix colorings (MatColoring), orderings (MatOrdering), partitionings (MatPartitioning), and coarsening (MatCoarsen)
      • Finite difference computation of Jacobians (MatFD)
    • Data Layout and Communication
      • Star Forest Communication (PetscSF)
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      • A Forest of Trees and Structured Adaptive Refinement (DMFOREST)
      • Sequences of parallel mesh patches (DMPATCH)
      • Particle Discretizations (DMSWARM)
      • MOAB Mesh Representation (DMMOAB)
      • Selecting Parts of Meshes (DMLabel)
      • Tensor products of meshes (DMRODUCT)
    • Discretization and Function Spaces
      • Discretization Technology and Quadrature (DT)
      • Function Spaces (PetscSpace)
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      • Defining your own mathematical functions (PF)
      • Landau Collision Operator
    • Linear Solvers and Preconditioners
      • Linear Solvers and Krylov Methods (KSP)
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      • Sensitivity Analysis for ODE and DAE
      • Semi-Lagrangian Solves using the Method of Characteristics
    • Optimization
      • Optimization Solvers (Tao)
      • Optimization Line Search (TaoLineSearch)
    • Graphics and Visualization
      • Graphics (Draw)
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    • System Routines, Profiling, Data Structures
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      • Hash Tables
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    • Changes for each release
    • Single Index of all PETSc Manual Pages
  • Changes for each release
  • Single Index of all PETSc Manual Pages

Data Layout and Communication#

  • Star Forest Communication (PetscSF)
  • Section Data Layout (PetscSection)
  • Application Orderings (AO)

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