How come when I run the same linear solver on a different number of processes it takes a different number of iterations?
The convergence of many of the preconditioners in PETSc including the the default parallel preconditioner block Jacobi depends on the number of processes. The more processes the (slightly) slower convergence it has. This is the nature of iterative solvers, the more parallelism means the more “older” information is used in the solution process hence slower convergence.
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