HP MLIB User's Guide Vol. 2 7th Ed.

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Chapter objectives

After reading this chapter you will:

• Know how to access Distributed SuperLU library subprograms

• Know what Distributed SuperLU can do

• Know the driver routines and the computational routines

• Know the basic steps to call a Distributed SuperLU routine

• Know the appropriate header ﬁles to include

• Know the Distributed SuperLU deﬁned data structures

• Know the most important input argument for the driver routines

• Know an issue relating to calling SuperLU_DIST8 routines

• Find two sample programs of applying the double precision driver routines

to solve a linear system of equations

NOTE In the public domain Distributed SuperLU, there is a routine named

pxerbla. In HP’s implementation of Distributed SuperLU, that routine is

renamed slu_pxerbla.

Associated documentation

This chapter is based on the following document:

Demmel, James W., John R. Gilbert, and Xiaoye S. Li. SuperLU Users’ Guide.

September, 1999.

The SuperLU Users’ Guide is available online at:

http://www.nersc.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU.

and use in source and binary forms, with or without modiﬁcation, are permitted

provided that the following conditions are met: