PETSc 3.15 Documentation

News: New Book on PETSc

PETSc for Partial Differential Equations: Numerical Solutions in C and Python, by Ed Bueler, is available.

News: New paper on PETSc communication System

The PetscSF Scalable Communication Layer

News: petsc4py Support

Source code for petsc4py, developed by Lisandro Dalcin, is now distributed with the PETSc source and supported by the PETSc team and mailing lists.

PETSc, pronounced PET-see (/ˈpɛt-siː/), is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It supports MPI, and GPUs through CUDA or OpenCL, as well as hybrid MPI-GPU parallelism. PETSc (sometimes called PETSc/Tao) also contains the Tao optimization software library.

PETSc is developed as open-source, requests and contributions are welcome.

Citing PETSc

When citing PETSc in a publication please cite the following:

@Misc{petsc-web-page,
   Author = "Satish Balay and Shrirang Abhyankar and Mark~F. Adams and Jed Brown
   and Peter Brune and Kris Buschelman and Lisandro Dalcin and Alp Dener and Victor Eijkhout
   and William~D. Gropp and Dinesh Kaushik and Matthew~G. Knepley and Dave~A. May
   and Lois Curfman McInnes and Richard Tran Mills and Todd Munson and Karl Rupp
   and Patrick Sanan and Barry~F. Smith and Stefano Zampini and Hong Zhang and Hong Zhang",
   Title  = "{PETS}c {W}eb page",
   Note   = "https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc",
   Year   = "2021"}

@TechReport{petsc-user-ref,
   Author = "Satish Balay and Shrirang Abhyankar and Mark~F. Adams and Jed Brown
   and Peter Brune and Kris Buschelman and Lisandro Dalcin and Alp Dener and Victor Eijkhout
   and William~D. Gropp and Dinesh Kaushik and Matthew~G. Knepley and Dave~A. May
   and Lois Curfman McInnes and Richard Tran Mills and Todd Munson and Karl Rupp
   and Patrick Sanan and Barry~F. Smith and Stefano Zampini and Hong Zhang and Hong Zhang",
   Title       = "{PETS}c Users Manual",
   Number      = "ANL-95/11 - Revision 3.15",
   Institution = "Argonne National Laboratory",
   Year        = "2021"}

@InProceedings{petsc-efficient,
   Author    = "Satish Balay and William D. Gropp and Lois C. McInnes and Barry F. Smith",
   Title     = "Efficient Management of Parallelism in Object Oriented
                Numerical Software Libraries",
   Booktitle = "Modern Software Tools in Scientific Computing",
   Editor    = "E. Arge and A. M. Bruaset and H. P. Langtangen",
   Pages     = "163--202",
   Publisher = "Birkhauser Press",
   Year      = "1997"}

If you use the TS component of PETSc please cite the following:

@article{abhyankar2018petsc,
  title={PETSc/TS: A Modern Scalable ODE/DAE Solver Library},
  author={Abhyankar, Shrirang and Brown, Jed and Constantinescu, Emil M and Ghosh, Debojyoti and Smith, Barry F and Zhang, Hong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.01437},
  year={2018}
}

If you utilize the TS adjoint solver please cite

@article{zhang2019,
  author = {Zhang, Hong and Constantinescu, Emil M. and Smith, Barry F.},
  title = {{{PETSc TSAdjoint: a discrete adjoint ODE solver for first-order and second-order sensitivity analysis}},
  journal = {arXiv e-preprints},
  eprint = {1912.07696},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  year={2019}
}