Re: About ITSOL - ILUTP - MILU and packaging

[c.]

Hi,

On 9 Aug 2013, at 20:50, saad <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry I did not get the chance yet to look carefully at these messages yet. 
> I do not have a copy of the  stand-alone versions Ruipeng sent you.. 
> Regarding releasing a separate library which will be the same as the one used 
> in Octave,
> [for maintenance purposes] -- it may be doable but as you know in academia 
> students come and go -- so maintenance by people in my group is unlikely to be
> reliable.. It will help if the codes are not too different from the ones we 
> have - so I can
> direct students to make fixes if they are simple ones. 

Actually the code should remain essentially untouched, 
we just need to add a configure script to automate configuration
on different architectures, maintainance of this script should be easy
but anyway we can help with instructing students about it in the future.

> For the question regarding ``a minimal usage example of ILUTP"  -- there is 
> normally
> one within the ITSOL package which can be converted to the stand-alone 
> version.
> This may be a little more tricky than the other preconditioners because of 
> the additional
>  permutation..
> I can take a look at this but the problem is that I do not  know what Ruipeng 
> sent you... 
> It may be best to wait until he returns [he is currently in China]..
> 
> I do want to help within our means

Great! Thank you very much!
> Yousef Saad 
Carlo