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1PETSc for Python
2================
3
4Python bindings for PETSc.
5
6Install
7-------
8
9If you have a working MPI implementation and the ``mpicc`` compiler
10wrapper is on your search path, it is highly recommended to install
11``mpi4py`` first::
12
13  $ pip install mpi4py
14
15Ensure you have NumPy installed::
16
17  $ pip install numpy
18
19and finally::
20
21  $ pip install petsc petsc4py
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23
24Citations
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26
27If PETSc for Python been significant to a project that leads to an
28academic publication, please acknowledge that fact by citing the
29project.
30
31* L. Dalcin, P. Kler, R. Paz, and A. Cosimo,
32  *Parallel Distributed Computing using Python*,
33  Advances in Water Resources, 34(9):1124-1139, 2011.
34  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.04.013
35
36* S. Balay, S. Abhyankar, M. Adams, S. Benson, J. Brown,
37  P. Brune, K. Buschelman, E. Constantinescu, L. Dalcin, A. Dener,
38  V. Eijkhout, J. Faibussowitsch, W. Gropp, V. Hapla, T. Isaac, P. Jolivet,
39  D. Karpeyev, D. Kaushik, M. Knepley, F. Kong, S. Kruger,
40  D. May, L. Curfman McInnes, R. Mills, L. Mitchell, T. Munson,
41  J. Roman, K. Rupp, P. Sanan, J Sarich, B. Smith, H. Suh,
42  S. Zampini, H. Zhang, and H. Zhang, J. Zhang,
43  *PETSc/TAO Users Manual*, ANL-21/39 - Revision 3.24, 2025.
44  https://doi.org/10.2172/2998643,
45  https://petsc.org/release/docs/manual/manual.pdf
46