> thank you for your reply. Do you have any method to generate an ascii > file of the huge sparse matrix? thanks
I have been using HYPRE calls (from PETSc) to accomplish this. Each processor will write his own portion of the global matrix in his own file. The enclosed file should explain how. Regards, Aldo -- Dr. Aldo Bonfiglioli Dip.to di Ingegneria e Fisica dell'Ambiente (DIFA) Universita' della Basilicata V.le dell'Ateneo lucano, 10 85100 Potenza ITALY tel:+39.0971.205203 fax:+39.0971.205160 -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: printmat.F URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20080123/8fe41d16/attachment.diff>