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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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-4.0.x.tar.gz tar -xvf parmetis-4.0.x.tar At this point you should have a directory named parmetis-4.0.x. 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-4.0.x/Install.txt. | |||||||||
| Documentation | |||||||||
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ParMETIS's manual that contains instructions on how to use ParMETIS can be found in the directory parmetis-4.0.x/manual.
You can get a PDF copy of the manual from here. | |||||||||