NHSE Software Catalog

BlockSolve - Scalable Sparse System Software

url

ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/BlockSolve/block_solve.tar.Z

author

Mark Jones / jones@cs.utk.edu
Paul Plassmann / plassman@mcs.anl.gov

contact

jones@cs.utk.edu

abstract

BlockSolve is a scalable parallel software library primarily intended for the
solution of sparse linear systems that arise from physical problems having
multiple degrees of freedom at each node.
BlockSolve runs on a variety of parallel architectures including the IBM SP,
Intel DELTA and Paragon, and networks of Sun and RS/6000 workstations.
This portability is obtained by utilizing the Chameleon communication
package developed by William Gropp at Argonne National Laboratory. A user
does not need to use the Chameleon package to use BlockSolve; BlockSolve
need only be compiled with the options compatible with the message-passing
paradigm and architecture on which it will be used.

description

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/Projects/blocksolve94/blocksolve94.html

keywords

sparse linear systems; parallel numerical library