MUMPS (software)
| Stable release | 5.0.0 / February 20, 2015 |
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| Written in | C/Fortran 90 |
| Operating system | Most UNIX and Windows (through WinMUMPS) |
| Platform | PC, Mac, NEC, SGI, IBM, etc. |
| Available in | C/Fortran 77/Fortran 90 |
| License | CeCILL-C |
| Website | http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/ and http://mumps.enseeiht.fr |
MUMPS (MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver) is a software application for the solution of large sparse systems of linear algebraic equations on distributed memory parallel computers. It was developed in European project PARASOL (1996–1999) by CERFACS, IRIT-ENSEEIHT and RAL. The software implements the multifrontal method, which is a version of Gaussian elimination for large sparse systems of equations, especially those arising from the finite element method. It is written in Fortran 90 with parallelism by MPI and it uses BLAS and ScaLAPACK kernels for dense matrix computations. Since 1999, MUMPS has been supported by CERFACS, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, and INRIA.
The importance of MUMPS lies in the fact that it is a supported free implementation of the multifrontal method.
References
- Amestoy, P.R.; Duff, I.S.; l'Excellent, J.-Y. (2000). "Multifrontal parallel distributed symmetric and unsymmetric solvers". Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 184 (2–4): 501–520. Bibcode:2000CMAME.184..501A. doi:10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00242-X. BibteX entry.
- Amestoy, Patrick R.; Duff, Iain S.; l'Excellent, Jean-Yves; Koster, Jacko (2001). "A fully asynchronous multifrontal solver using distributed dynamic scheduling". SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications 23 (1): 15–41. doi:10.1137/S0895479899358194. BibteX entry.
- Amestoy, Patrick R.; Guermouche, Abdou; l’Excellent, Jean-Yves; Pralet, Stéphane (2006). "Hybrid scheduling for the parallel solution of linear systems". Parallel Computing 32 (2): 136–156. doi:10.1016/j.parco.2005.07.004. BibteX entry.