ParMETIS - Parallel Graph Partitioning and Fill-reducing Matrix Ordering
The distribution of ParMETIS contains a number of files. It is written entirely in ANSI C and MPI and is portable on most parallel computers that support MPI.
| Getting the files | ||
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ParMETIS's distribution is available as a Unix gziped tar file.
Older versions of ParMETIS can be found here. | ||
| Installing | ||
After downloading ParMETIS you need to uncompress it and untar it. You can achieve this by executing the following commands:
gunzip ParMetis-3.1.tar.gz tar -xvf ParMetis-3.1.tar At this point you should have a directory named ParMetis-3.1. This directory contains ParMETIS's source code as well as a sample graph used for testing. To build ParMETIS, follow the instructions in the file ParMetis-3.1/INSTALL. | ||
| Documentation | ||
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ParMETIS's manual that contains instructions on how to use ParMETIS can be found in the directory ParMetis-3.1/Manual.
You can get a PDF copy of the manual from here. | ||