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class="cmr-12">3.1 </span></span> <a
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class="cmr-12">Prerequisites</span></h4>
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<!--l. 32--><p class="noindent" ><span
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class="cmr-12">The following base libraries are needed:</span>
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<dl class="description"><dt class="description">
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<span
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class="cmbx-12">BLAS</span> </dt><dd
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class="description"><span class="cite"><span
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class="cmr-12">[</span><a
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href="userhtmlli5.html#Xblas3"><span
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class="cmr-12">16</span></a><span
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class="cmr-12">,</span><span
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class="cmr-12"> </span><a
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href="userhtmlli5.html#Xblas2"><span
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class="cmr-12">17</span></a><span
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class="cmr-12">,</span><span
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class="cmr-12"> </span><a
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href="userhtmlli5.html#Xblas1"><span
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class="cmr-12">23</span></a><span
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class="cmr-12">]</span></span> <span
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class="cmr-12">Many vendors provide optimized versions of BLAS; if no</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">vendor version is available for a given platform, the ATLAS software</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">(</span><a
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href="http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net" ><span
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class="cmr-12">math-atlas.sourceforge .net</span></a><span
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class="cmr-12">) may be employed. The reference BLAS from</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">Netlib (</span><a
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href="http://www.netlib.org/blas" ><span
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class="cmr-12">www.netlib.org/blas</span></a><span
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class="cmr-12">) are meant to define the standard behaviour of</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">the BLAS interface, so they are not optimized for any particular platform,</span>
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class="cmr-12">and should only be used as a last resort. Note that BLAS computations form</span>
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class="cmr-12">a relatively small part of the AMG4PSBLAS/PSBLAS; however they are</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">critical when using preconditioners based on the MUMPS, UMFPACK or</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">SuperLU third party libraries. UMFPACK requires a full LAPACK library;</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">our experience is that configuring ATLAS for building full LAPACK does</span>
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class="cmr-12">not always work in the expected way. Our advice is first to download the</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">LAPACK tarfile from </span><a
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href="http://www.netlib.org/lapack" ><span
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class="cmr-12">www.netlib.org/lapack</span></a> <span
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class="cmr-12">and install it independently of</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">ATLAS. In this case, you need to modify the OPTS and NOOPT definitions</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">for including -fPIC compilation option in the make.inc file of the LAPACK</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">library.</span>
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</dd><dt class="description">
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class="cmbx-12">MPI</span> </dt><dd
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class="cmr-12">28</span></a><span
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class="cmr-12">]</span></span> <span
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class="cmr-12">A version of MPI is available on most high-performance computing</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">systems.</span>
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</dd><dt class="description">
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<span
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class="cmbx-12">PSBLAS</span> </dt><dd
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class="description"><span class="cite"><span
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href="userhtmlli5.html#XPSBLASGUIDE"><span
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class="cmr-12">]</span></span> <span
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class="cmr-12">Parallel Sparse BLAS (PSBLAS) is available from</span>
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<a
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href="https://psctoolkit.github.io/products/psblas/" ><span
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class="cmr-12">psctoolkit.github.io/ products/psblas/</span></a><span
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class="cmr-12">; version 3.7.0 (or later) is required.</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">Indeed, all the prerequisites listed so far are also prerequisites of PSBLAS.</span></dd></dl>
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<!--l. 60--><p class="noindent" ><span
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class="cmr-12">Please note that the four previous libraries must have Fortran interfaces compatible with</span>
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<span
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class="cmr-12">AMG4PSBLAS; usually this means that they should all be built with the same</span>
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