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# Articles about PETSc Design

Many articles have been written about the design of PETSc. We mention an incomplete selection which may be of interest to developers.

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Higher-level views of PETSc can be found in [ref-Smi11], [ref-BGMS02], [ref-GS94], [ref-BGMS98], and [ref-BGMS97].

## References

ref-BGMS97

  Satish Balay, William D. Gropp, Lois Curfman McInnes, and Barry F. Smith. Efficient management of parallelism in object oriented numerical software libraries. In E. Arge, A. M. Bruaset, and H. P. Langtangen, editors, Modern Software Tools in Scientific Computing, 163–202. Birkhäuser Press, 1997.

ref-BGMS02

  S. Balay, W. D. Gropp, L. C. McInnes, and B. F. Smith. CRPC Handbook of Parallel Computing, chapter Software for the Scalable Solution of PDEs. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002. URL: ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/tech_reports/reports/P834.ps.Z.

ref-BGMS98

  Satish Balay, William D. Gropp, Lois Curfman McInnes, and Barry F. Smith. A microkernel design for component-based parallel numerical software systems. In Proceedings of the SIAM Workshop on Object Oriented Methods for Inter-operable Scientific and Engineering Computing, 58–67. SIAM, 1998. URL: ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/tech_reports/reports/P727.ps.Z.

ref-GS94

  William D. Gropp and Barry F. Smith. Scalable, extensible, and portable numerical libraries. In Proceedings of the Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference, 87–93. Mississippi State University, 1994. IEEE.

ref-Smi11

  B. Smith. Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, chapter PETSc, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computing. Springer, 2011.