PETSc Users Manual
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**Argonne National Laboratory**

**Mathematics and Computer Science Division**

Highly recommended resource: Ed Bueler, `PETSc for Partial Differential Equations: Numerical Solutions in C and Python <https://my.siam.org/Store/Product/viewproduct/?ProductId=32850137>`__ or as a `Google Play E-book <https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ed_Bueler_PETSc_for_Partial_Differential_Equations?id=tgMHEAAAQBAJ>`__.

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Prepared by

**S. Balay** :sup:`1`,
**S. Abhyankar** :sup:`2`,
**M. Adams** :sup:`3`,
**J. Brown** :sup:`10`,
**P. Brune** :sup:`1`,
**K. Buschelman** :sup:`1`,
**L. Dalcin** :sup:`4`,
**A. Dener** :sup:`1`,
**V. Eijkhout** :sup:`6`,
**W. Gropp** :sup:`11`,
**D. Karpeyev** :sup:`1`,
**D. Kaushik** :sup:`12`,
**M. Knepley** :sup:`9`,
**D. May** :sup:`7`,
**L. Curfman McInnes** :sup:`1`,
**R. Mills** :sup:`1`,
**T. Munson** :sup:`1`,
**K. Rupp** :sup:`1`,
**P. Sanan** :sup:`8`,
**B. Smith** :sup:`1`,
**S. Zampini** :sup:`4`,
**H. Zhang** :sup:`5`, and
**H. Zhang** :sup:`1`

| :sup:`1`\ Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
| :sup:`2`\ Electricity Infrastructure and Buildings Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
| :sup:`3`\ Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
| :sup:`4`\ Extreme Computing Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
| :sup:`5`\ Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
| :sup:`6`\ Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin
| :sup:`7`\ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
| :sup:`8`\ Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich
| :sup:`9`\ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo
| :sup:`10`\ Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
| :sup:`11`\ Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
| :sup:`12`\ Qatar Foundation

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This work was supported by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   introduction
   programming
   additional
