Not, Superlu DIST requires a real MPI implementation ( but, of course, can be be run on just one process if you want). But for sequential solves you can just use Superlu. Barry On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, #DOMINIC DENVER JOHN CHANDAR# wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to build the serial version of PETSc with > SuperLU_DIST_2.0 ? or should i use the parallel version only ? > > Thanks, > Dominic >