Domain Decomposition Solvers for Large Scale Industrial Finite Element Problems

Abstract

The European research project PARASOL aimed to design and develop a public domain library of scalable sparse matrix solvers for distributed memory computers. Parallab was a partner in the project and developed a domain decomposition code for solving large scale finite element problems in a robust, yet efficient way. Although the PARASOL project finished in June 1999, Parallab has continued the development of the solver. In this paper, we report on the present status of the solver and show its performance on some challenging industrial problems.