petsc4py 3.25.4

PETSc for Python

Python bindings for PETSc.

Install

If you have a working MPI implementation and the mpicc compiler wrapper is on your search path, it is highly recommended to install mpi4py first:

$ pip install mpi4py

Ensure you have NumPy installed:

$ pip install numpy

and finally:

$ pip install petsc petsc4py

Citations

If PETSc for Python been significant to a project that leads to an academic publication, please acknowledge that fact by citing the project.

• L. Dalcin, P. Kler, R. Paz, and A. Cosimo, Parallel Distributed Computing using Python, Advances in Water Resources, 34(9):1124-1139, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.04.013

• S. Balay, S. Abhyankar, M. Adams, S. Benson, J. Brown, P. Brune, K. Buschelman, E. Constantinescu, L. Dalcin, A. Dener, V. Eijkhout, J. Faibussowitsch, W. Gropp, V. Hapla, T. Isaac, P. Jolivet, D. Karpeyev, D. Kaushik, M. Knepley, F. Kong, S. Kruger, D. May, L. Curfman McInnes, R. Mills, L. Mitchell, T. Munson, J. Roman, K. Rupp, P. Sanan, J Sarich, B. Smith, H. Suh, S. Zampini, H. Zhang, and H. Zhang, J. Zhang, PETSc/TAO Users Manual, ANL-21/39 - Revision 3.25, 2026. https://doi.org/10.2172/2998643, https://petsc.org/release/docs/manual/manual.pdf