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1. Overview of the packages

  • Primary support is for preconditioned Krylov subspace methods.
    • Conjugate gradients (CG)
    • Generalized Minimal Residuals (GMRES)
    • Biconjugate Gradients Squared (BCGS)
    • Transpose-Free Quasi-minimal Residuals (TFQMR)
    • Bi-CGSTAB
    • etc.
  • Support for a variety of preconditioners (m-step Jacobi, m-step SSOR, ILU, etc.).
  • Variety of usage modes:
    • as a ``black box''
    • as a toolkit for algorithm development
    • as an exploratory tool (via the GUI)
  • GUI (Tcl/Tk), which provides:
    • automated building of library and test code,
    • intuitive introduction to package capabilities, and
    • analysis of test problems or systems dumped from a host code.



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John A. Turner