1 BlockSolve95 is a scalable parallel software library primarily intended for the
2 solution of sparse linear systems that arise from physical models, especially
3 problems involving multiple degrees of freedom at each node. For example, when
4 the finite element method is used to solve practical problems in structural
5 engineering, each node typically has two to five degrees of freedom;
6 BlockSolve95 is designed to take advantage of problems with this type of local
7 structure. BlockSolve95 is also reasonably efficient for problems that have
8 only one degree of freedom associated with each node, such as the three-
9 dimensional Poisson problem.
11 BlockSolve95 is general purpose; we do not require that the matrices have any
12 particular structure other than being sparse and being symmetric in structure
13 (but not necessarily in value).
15 WWW: http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/BlockSolve95/