1*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith(doc_externalsoftware)= 2*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 3*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith# Supported External Software 4*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 5*9b92b1d3SBarry SmithPETSc interfaces with many optional external software packages. See {ref}`installing 6*9b92b1d3SBarry Smithpackages <doc_config_externalpack>` for more information on downloading and installing 7*9b92b1d3SBarry Smiththese software, as well as the {doc}`linear solver table 8*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith</overview/linear_solve_table>` for more 9*9b92b1d3SBarry Smithinformation on the intended use-cases for each software. 10*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 11*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith## Partial List Of Software 12*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 13*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [AMD](http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/amd/) Approximate minimum degree orderings. 14*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [BLAS/LAPACK](https://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/node11.html) Optimizes linear algebra kernels (always available). 15*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [CUDA](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit) A parallel computing platform and application programming interface model created by NVIDIA. 16*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Chaco](http://www.cs.sandia.gov/CRF/chac.html) A graph partitioning package. 17*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [ESSL](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFHY8/essl_welcome.html) IBM's math library for fast sparse direct LU factorization. 18*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [FFTW](http://www.fftw.org/) Fastest Fourier Transform in the West, developed at MIT by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson. 19*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Git](https://git-scm.com/) Distributed version control system 20*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [HDF5](http://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/support) A data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. 21*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Hypre](https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/hypre-scalable-linear-solvers-multigrid-methods) LLNL preconditioner library. 22*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Kokkos](https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos) A programming model in C++ for writing performance portable applications targeting all major HPC platforms 23*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [LUSOL](https://web.stanford.edu/group/SOL/software/lusol/) Sparse LU factorization and solve portion of MINOS, Michael Saunders, Systems Optimization Laboratory, Stanford University. 24*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Mathematica](http://www.wolfram.com/) A general multi-paradigm computational language developed by Wolfram Research. 25*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [MATLAB](https://www.mathworks.com/) A proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numerical computing environment developed by MathWorks. 26*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [MUMPS](https://mumps-solver.org/) MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver. 27*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [MeTis](https://github.com/KarypisLab/METIS) and [ParMeTiS](https://github.com/KarypisLab/PARMETIS) serial/parallel graph partitioners. 28*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Party](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2736581_PARTY_-_A_software_library_for_graph_partitioning) A graph partitioning package. 29*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [PaStiX](https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/pastix/) A parallel LU and Cholesky solver package. 30*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [PTScotch](http://www.labri.fr/perso/pelegrin/scotch/) A graph partitioning package. 31*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [SPAI](https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-09766-4_144) Parallel sparse approximate inverse preconditioning. 32*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [SPRNG](http://www.sprng.org/) The Scalable Parallel Random Number Generators Library. 33*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Sundial/CVODE](https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/sundials) The LLNL SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers. 34*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [SuperLU](https://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/#superlu) and [SuperLU_Dist](https://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/#superlu_dist) Robust and efficient sequential and parallel direct sparse solves. 35*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Trilinos/ML](http://trilinos.org/) Multilevel Preconditioning Package. Sandia's main multigrid preconditioning package. 36*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [SuiteSparse, including KLU, UMFPACK, and CHOLMOD](http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html) Sparse direct solvers, developed by Timothy A. Davis. 37*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [ViennaCL](http://viennacl.sourceforge.net/) Linear algebra library providing matrix and vector operations using OpenMP, CUDA, and OpenCL. 38*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 39*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith## Additional Software 40*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 41*9b92b1d3SBarry SmithPETSc contains modifications of routines from: 42*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 43*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- LINPACK (matrix factorization and solve; converted to C using f2c and then 44*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith hand-optimized for small matrix sizes) 45*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- MINPACK (sequential matrix coloring routines for finite difference Jacobian evaluations; 46*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith converted to C using f2c) 47*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- SPARSPAK (matrix reordering routines, converted to C using f2c, this is the PUBLIC 48*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith DOMAIN version of SPARSPAK) 49*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- libtfs (the scalable parallel direct solver created and written by Henry Tufo and Paul 50*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith Fischer). 51*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 52*9b92b1d3SBarry SmithInstrumentation of PETSc: 53*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 54*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- PETSc can be instrumented using the [TAU](http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paracomp/tau/tautools/) package (check 55*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith {ref}`installation <doc_config_tau>` instructions). 56*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 57*9b92b1d3SBarry SmithPETSc documentation has been generated using: 58*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith 59*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Sowing](http://wgropp.cs.illinois.edu/projects/software/sowing/index.html) 60*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [c2html](https://sources.debian.org/copyright/license/c2html/) 61*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Python](https://www.python.org/) 62*9b92b1d3SBarry Smith- [Sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/) 63