# The PETSc Community Is the Infrastructure

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00967 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.00967/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 4 Jan 2022.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [AI Assistants to Enhance and Exploit the PETSc Knowledge Base](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.20608/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The communities who develop and support open source scientific software packages are crucial to the utility and success of such packages. Moreover, these communities form an important part of the human infrastructure that enables scientific progress. This paper discusses aspects of the PETSc (Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation) community, its organization, and technical approaches that enable community members to help each other efficiently.