Thanks for your tutorials. Yes. I tried PCFIELDSPLIT. However, it only works 
for sequential runs. When I run the code in distributed memory, it reports 
errors. In fact, the essence of my wonder is (a) how to set up superlu_dist in 
petsc for solving saddle point problem in distributed memory? (b) does the 
direct solvers in petsc can run in distributed memory for solving saddle point 
problem?

From: Stefano Zampini [mailto:stefano.zamp...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 28 July 2020 6:55 PM
To: Bin Liu <lbllm2...@hotmail.com>
Cc: petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [petsc-users] solving saddle point problem in distributed memory

If you want advice you should post the error trace PETSc reports.

Anyway, solving Stokes is not so trivial (without direct solvers, you may need 
mesh dependent information), but we have examples for it

https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/blob/master/src/ksp/ksp/tutorials/ex42.c
https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/blob/master/src/ksp/ksp/tutorials/ex43.c
https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/blob/master/src/snes/tutorials/ex69.c

If you scroll to the end of those files, you see a bunch of possible options 
either using PCFIELDSPLIT,  PCBDDC or KSPFETIDP.



On Jul 28, 2020, at 12:37 PM, Bin Liu 
<lbllm2...@hotmail.com<mailto:lbllm2...@hotmail.com>> wrote:

I would like to solve a saddle point problem arising from the stokes equation. 
I got successful to use the direct solvers in sequential runs. However, I would 
like to extend it for distributed memory computation. I tried to use 
superlu_dist, but the program returns errors. Is it possible to solve a saddle 
point problem in distributed memory using superlu_dist? Could anyone give a 
simple sample code to set up the parameters of the solver?

Thanks

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