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This directory contains the PSBLAS library, version 2.1.0
Version 1.0 of the library was described in:
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S. Filippone, M. Colajanni
PSBLAS: A library for parallel linear algebra computation on sparse matrices
ACM Trans. on Math. Software, 26(4), Dec. 2000, pp. 527-550.
PLATFORMS:
The compilation process relies on the choice of an appropriate
Make.inc file; we have tested with AIX XLF, Intel ifc/Linux, Lahey
F95/Linux, Nag f95/Linux, GNU Fortran/Linux. If you succeed in compiling with
other compiler/operating systems please let us know.
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LINUX:
On Linux we work with the GCC compiler; note that we require version
4.2.0 (or later) as it contains support for ALLOCATABLEs (as specified
in TR15581).
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The Lahey version we got access to (6.0 and 6.1) seems to suffer from
spurious extra copies problem; this is most apparent in the matrix
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build process.
For the Intel compilers, we recommend version 9.1; previous
versions of the library have been compiled with version 7 and 8 of
ifort.
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IBM SP.
The library has been tested on an IBM SP2, SP4 and SP5, with XLC and XLF
compilers, and a version of the BLACS based on MPI.
The setting
F90=xlf90 -qsuffix=f=f90
in Make.inc.sp5 takes care of the f90 extension.
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UTILITIES
The test/util directory contains some utilities to convert to/from
Harwell-Boeing and MatrixMarket file formats.
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DOCUMENTATION
See userguide.pdf
Please consult the sample programs, especially test/pargen/ppde90.f90.
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OTHER SOFTWARE CREDITS
We include our modified implementation of some of the Sparker (serial
sparse BLAS) material, e.g. Jagged diagonal, plus a number of
extensions of our own design. The original file spblas.f can be
downloaded from matisa.cc.rl.ac.uk; of course any bugs in our
implementation are our own to fix. The main reference for the serial
sparse BLAS is:
Duff, I., Marrone, M., Radicati, G., and Vittoli, C.
Level 3 basic linear algebra subprograms for sparse matrices: a user
level interface
ACM Trans. Math. Softw., 23(3), 379-401, 1997.
In the multilevel preconditioners we use SMMP by Randolph E. Bank and
Craig C. Douglas na.bank@na-net.ornl.gov and
na.cdouglas@na-net.ornl.gov; we wrapped it in a Fortran 95 interface
with dynamic memory allocation.
To compile and run our software you will need the following
prerequisites (see also SERIAL below):
1. A working version of MPI
2. The MPI version of the BLACS from
http://www.netlib.org/blacs/index.html
3. A version of the BLAS; if you don't have a specific version for
your platform you may try ATLAS available from
http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/
4. We have had good results with the METIS library, from
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/metis/main.html
This is not necessary to compile our library, but the test program
in test/Fileread assumes you have it installed.
5. For the multilevel preconditioners we include interfaces to the following
software packages:
-- SuperLU 3.0 http://crd.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/
-- UMFPACK 4.4 http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack/
These are optional, you only need to install them if you actually
want to use them.
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To install, choose a Make.inc.XXX file for your compilers, modify the
paths to libraries to match your installation and copy it to
Make.inc. Then a make will compile the library; go to the test
directory and its subdirectories to get test programs done.
SERIAL: We now provide an (experimental) option to run in serial
mode. This has only been tested with GCC but it should work
with the others as well. In serial mode you don't need the
prereqs 1 and 2 above, and you need to use the -serialmpi
Make.inc. BEWARE: we only provide a VERY minimal set of fake mpi
routines that is known to work with our codes; specifically, we
do not handle a process doing send/receives to itself, neither
do we handle user defined data types.
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TODO:
Fix all reamining bugs. Bugs? We dont' have any ! ;-)
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The PSBLAS team.
Contact: Salvatore Filippone salvatore.filippone@uniroma2.it
Credits for version 2.0:
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Salvatore Filippone
Alfredo Buttari
The MD2P4 multilevel parallel preconditioners contained in directory
src/prec were developed with the contribution of:
Pasqua D'Ambra
Daniela di Serafino
They are still in an early experimental stage, use at your own risk!
Credits for version 1.0:
Salvatore Filippone
Michele Colajanni
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Fabio Cerioni
Stefano Maiolatesi
Dario Pascucci