diff --git a/src/core/distmatrix.jl b/src/core/distmatrix.jl
index 92b3879..ff3c050 100644
--- a/src/core/distmatrix.jl
+++ b/src/core/distmatrix.jl
@@ -148,6 +148,23 @@ for (elty, ext) in ((:ElInt, :i),
                 A.obj, i, j))
             return A
         end
+
+        function isLocalRow(A::DistMatrix{$elty}, i::Integer)
+            rv = Ref{ElInt}(0)
+            ElError(ccall(($(string("ElDistMatrixIsLocalRow_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                (Ptr{Cvoid}, ElInt, Ref{ElInt}),
+                A.obj, i - 1, rv))
+            return Bool(rv[])
+        end
+
+        function isLocalCol(A::DistMatrix{$elty}, i::Integer)
+            rv = Ref{ElInt}(0)
+            ElError(ccall(($(string("ElDistMatrixIsLocalCol_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                (Ptr{Cvoid}, ElInt, Ref{ElInt}),
+                A.obj, i - 1, rv))
+            return Bool(rv[])
+        end
+
     end
 end
 
@@ -205,3 +222,28 @@ function hcat(x::Vector{DistMatrix{T}}) where {T}
         return A
     end
 end
+
+import DistributedArrays.localpart
+# used in testing
+function localpart(A::Elemental.DistMatrix{T}) where T
+    buffer = Base.zeros(T, localHeight(A), localWidth(A))
+    return localpart!(buffer, A)
+end
+
+function localpart!(buffer, A::Elemental.DistMatrix)
+    @assert size(buffer) == (localHeight(A), localWidth(A))
+    for j in 1:localWidth(A), i in 1:localHeight(A)
+        buffer[i, j] = getLocal(A, i, j)
+    end
+    return buffer
+end
+
+import DistributedArrays.localindices
+# used in testing
+function localindices(A::Elemental.DistMatrix{T}) where T
+    # sometimes they aren't contigous so cant do start:start+length
+    rows = findall(isLocalRow(A, i) for i in 1:height(A))
+    cols = findall(isLocalCol(A, i) for i in 1:width(A))
+    return (rows, cols)
+end
+
diff --git a/src/julia/darray.jl b/src/julia/darray.jl
index 6f6262a..f4f27da 100644
--- a/src/julia/darray.jl
+++ b/src/julia/darray.jl
@@ -250,5 +250,46 @@ for (elty, ext) in ((:ElInt, :i),
             processQueues(A)
             return A
         end
+
+        function convert(::Type{DistMatrix{$elty}}, DA::DistributedArrays.DArray)
+            npr, npc = size(procs(DA))
+            if npr*npc != MPI.Comm_size(MPI.COMM_WORLD)
+                error("Used non MPI.COMM_WORLD DArray for DistMatrix, ",
+                      "as procs(DA)=($npr,$npc) is incompatible with ",
+                      "MPI.Comm_size(MPI.COMM_WORLD)=$(MPI.Comm_size(MPI.COMM_WORLD))")
+            end
+
+            m, n = size(DA)
+            A = DistMatrix($elty, m, n)
+            @sync begin
+                for id in workers()
+                    let A = A, DA = DA
+                        @async remotecall_fetch(id) do
+                            rows, cols = DistributedArrays.localindices(DA)
+                            reserve(A,length(rows) * length(cols))
+                            for j in cols, i in rows
+                              queueUpdate(A, i - 1, j - 1, DA[i, j])
+                            end
+                        end
+                    end
+                end
+            end
+            processQueues(A)
+            return A
+        end
+
+        function copyto!(DA::DistributedArrays.DArray{$elty}, A::DistMatrix{$elty} )
+            @sync begin
+              ijs = localindices(DA)
+              for j in ijs[2], i in ijs[1]
+                  queuePull(A, i, j)
+              end
+              DAlocal = DA[:L]
+
+              DAlocal_mat = ndims(DAlocal) == 1 ? reshape(DAlocal, :, 1) : DAlocal
+              processPullQueue(A, DAlocal_mat)
+            end
+            return DA
+        end
     end
 end
diff --git a/src/julia/generic.jl b/src/julia/generic.jl
index ca475c1..43d517f 100644
--- a/src/julia/generic.jl
+++ b/src/julia/generic.jl
@@ -181,6 +181,21 @@ Base.convert(::Type{Array}, xd::DistMatrix{T}) where {T} =
 
 Base.Array(xd::DistMatrix) = convert(Array, xd)
 
+function Base.setindex!(A::DistMatrix, values::Number, i::Integer, j::Integer)
+  throw(ArgumentError("setindex! with scalars is disallowed.
+    Use a large collection to setindex! in bulk."))
+end
+function Base.setindex!(A::DistMatrix,
+                        values,
+                        globalis,
+                        globaljs)
+    for (cj, globalj) in enumerate(globaljs), (ci, globali) in enumerate(globalis)
+        queueUpdate(A, globali, globalj, values[ci, cj])
+    end
+    processQueues(A)
+end
+
+
 LinearAlgebra.norm(x::ElementalMatrix) = nrm2(x)
 # function LinearAlgebra.norm(x::ElementalMatrix)
 #     if size(x, 2) == 1
@@ -194,6 +209,12 @@ LinearAlgebra.cholesky!(A::Hermitian{<:Union{Real,Complex},<:ElementalMatrix}) =
 LinearAlgebra.cholesky(A::Hermitian{<:Union{Real,Complex},<:ElementalMatrix}) = cholesky!(copy(A))
 
 LinearAlgebra.lu(A::ElementalMatrix) = _lu!(copy(A))
+LinearAlgebra.lu!(A::ElementalMatrix) = _lu!(A)
+LinearAlgebra.qr(A::ElementalMatrix) = _qr!(copy(A))
+LinearAlgebra.qr!(A::ElementalMatrix) = _qr!(A)
+LinearAlgebra.lq(A::ElementalMatrix) = _lq!(copy(A))
+LinearAlgebra.lq!(A::ElementalMatrix) = _lq!(A)
+LinearAlgebra.cholesky!(A::ElementalMatrix) = _cholesky!(A)
 
 # Mixed multiplication with Julia Arrays
 (*)(A::DistMatrix{T}, B::StridedVecOrMat{T}) where {T} = A*convert(DistMatrix{T}, B)
diff --git a/src/lapack_like/factor.jl b/src/lapack_like/factor.jl
index 3b421f7..e40de26 100644
--- a/src/lapack_like/factor.jl
+++ b/src/lapack_like/factor.jl
@@ -92,14 +92,142 @@ for mattype in ("", "Dist")
                     uplo, A.obj))
                 return A
             end
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+# These are the number types that Elemental supports
+
+for mattype in ("", "Dist")
+    mat = Symbol(mattype, "Matrix")
+    _p  = Symbol(mattype, "Permutation")
+
+    # TODO - fix QRColPiv
+    #QRColPivStructName = Symbol("QRColPiv$(string(mattype))")
+    QRStructName = Symbol("QR$(string(mattype))")
+    LQStructName = Symbol("LQ$(string(mattype))")
+    LUStructName = Symbol("LU$(string(mattype))")
+    CHStructName = Symbol("Cholesky$(string(mattype))")
+
+    @eval begin
+
+        struct $QRStructName{T,U<:Real}
+            A::$mat{T}
+            t::$mat{T}
+            d::$mat{U}
+            orientation::Ref{Orientation}
+        end
+        function $QRStructName(A::$mat{T}, t::$mat{T}, d::$mat{U}
+                ) where {U<:Union{Float32, Float64}, T<:Union{Complex{U}, U}}
+            return $QRStructName(A, t, d, Ref(NORMAL::Orientation))
+        end
+
+        struct $LQStructName{T, U<:Real}
+            A::$mat{T}
+            householderscalars::$mat{T}
+            signature::$mat{U}
+            orientation::Ref{Orientation}
+        end
+        function $LQStructName(A::$mat{T}, householderscalars::$mat{T}, signature::$mat{U}
+                ) where {U<:Union{Float32, Float64}, T<:Union{Complex{U}, U}}
+            return $LQStructName(A, householderscalars, signature, Ref(NORMAL::Orientation))
+        end
+
+        struct $LUStructName{T}
+            A::$mat{T}
+            p::$_p
+            orientation::Ref{Orientation}
+        end
+        function $LUStructName(A::$mat{T}, p::$_p
+                ) where {T<:Union{Float32, Float64, ComplexF32, ComplexF64}}
+            return $LUStructName(A, p, Ref(NORMAL::Orientation))
+        end
+
+        struct $CHStructName{T}
+            uplo::UpperOrLower
+            A::$mat{T}
+            orientation::Ref{Orientation}
+        end
+        function $CHStructName(uplo::UpperOrLower, A::$mat{T}
+                ) where {T<:Union{Float32, Float64, ComplexF32, ComplexF64}}
+            return $CHStructName(uplo, A, Ref(NORMAL::Orientation))
+        end
+
+    end
+
+    for (elty, ext) in ((:Float32, :s),
+                        (:Float64, :d),
+                        (:ComplexF32, :c),
+                        (:ComplexF64, :z))
+
+        @eval begin
 
             function _lu!(A::$mat{$elty})
                 p = $_p()
-                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElLUPartialPiv", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
-                    (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}),
-                    A.obj, p.obj))
-                return A, p
+                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElLU", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                              (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}),
+                              A.obj, p.obj))
+                return $LUStructName(A, p)
+            end
+
+            function LinearAlgebra.:\(lu::$LUStructName{$elty}, b::$mat{$elty})
+                x = deepcopy(b)#$mat($elty)
+                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElSolveAfterLU", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                              (Orientation, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}),
+                              lu.orientation[], lu.A.obj, x.obj))
+                return x
             end
+
+            function _qr!(A::$mat{$elty})
+                t = $mat($elty)
+                d = $mat(real($elty))
+                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElQR", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                              (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}),
+                              A.obj, t.obj, d.obj))
+                return $QRStructName(A, t, d)
+            end
+
+            function LinearAlgebra.:\(qr::$QRStructName{$elty}, b::$mat{$elty})
+                x = $mat($elty)
+                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElSolveAfterQR", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                              (Orientation, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}),
+                              qr.orientation[], qr.A.obj, qr.t.obj, qr.d.obj, b.obj, x.obj))
+                return x
+            end
+
+            function _lq!(A::$mat{$elty})
+                householderscalars = $mat($elty)
+                signature = $mat(real($elty))
+                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElLQ", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                              (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}),
+                              A.obj, householderscalars.obj, signature.obj))
+                return $LQStructName(A, householderscalars, signature)
+            end
+
+            function LinearAlgebra.:\(lq::$LQStructName{$elty}, b::$mat{$elty})
+                x = $mat($elty)
+                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElSolveAfterLQ", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                              (Orientation, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}),
+                              lq.orientation[], lq.A.obj, lq.householderscalars.obj,
+                              lq.signature.obj, b.obj, x.obj))
+                return x
+            end
+
+            function _cholesky!(A::$mat{$elty}, uplo::UpperOrLower=UPPER::UpperOrLower)
+                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElCholesky", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                              (UpperOrLower, Ptr{Cvoid}),
+                              uplo, A.obj))
+                return $CHStructName(uplo, A)
+            end
+
+            function LinearAlgebra.:\(ch::$CHStructName{$elty}, b::$mat{$elty})
+                x = deepcopy(b)#$mat($elty)
+                ElError(ccall(($(string("ElSolveAfterCholesky", mattype, "_", ext)), libEl), Cuint,
+                              (UpperOrLower, Orientation, Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}),
+                              ch.uplo, ch.orientation[], ch.A.obj, x.obj))
+                return x
+            end
+
         end
     end
 end
diff --git a/test/distcholesky.jl b/test/distcholesky.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a347978
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/distcholesky.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+using MPI, MPIClusterManagers, Distributed
+
+man = MPIManager(np = 2);
+
+addprocs(man);
+
+@everywhere using LinearAlgebra, Elemental
+
+const M = 400
+const N = M
+
+@mpi_do man M = @fetchfrom 1 M
+@mpi_do man N = @fetchfrom 1 N
+
+const Ahost = rand(Float64, M, N)
+Ahost .+= Ahost'
+Ahost .+= M * I(M)
+const bhost = rand(Float64, M)
+
+@mpi_do man Aall = @fetchfrom 1 Ahost
+@mpi_do man ball = @fetchfrom 1 bhost
+
+@mpi_do man A = Elemental.DistMatrix(Float64);
+@mpi_do man b = Elemental.DistMatrix(Float64);
+
+@mpi_do man A = Elemental.resize!(A, M, N);
+@mpi_do man b = Elemental.resize!(b, M);
+
+@mpi_do man copyto!(A, Aall)
+@mpi_do man copyto!(b, ball)
+
+@mpi_do man chA = Elemental.cholesky!(A);
+
+@mpi_do man x = chA \ b;
+
+@mpi_do man localx = zeros(Float64, Elemental.localHeight(x), Elemental.localWidth(x))
+@mpi_do man copyto!(localx, Elemental.localpart(x))
+
+using Test
+x = vcat((fetch(@spawnat p localx)[:] for p in workers())...)
+@testset "Cholesky" begin
+    @test x ≈ Ahost \ bhost
+end
diff --git a/test/distlq.jl b/test/distlq.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6d701a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/distlq.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+using MPI, MPIClusterManagers, Distributed
+
+man = MPIManager(np = 2);
+
+addprocs(man);
+
+@everywhere using LinearAlgebra, Elemental
+
+const M = 300
+const N = 400
+
+@mpi_do man M = @fetchfrom 1 M
+@mpi_do man N = @fetchfrom 1 N
+
+const Ahost = rand(Float64, M, N)
+const bhost = rand(Float64, M)
+
+@mpi_do man Aall = @fetchfrom 1 Ahost
+@mpi_do man ball = @fetchfrom 1 bhost
+
+@mpi_do man A = Elemental.DistMatrix(Float64);
+@mpi_do man b = Elemental.DistMatrix(Float64);
+
+@mpi_do man A = Elemental.resize!(A, M, N);
+@mpi_do man b = Elemental.resize!(b, M);
+
+@mpi_do man copyto!(A, Aall)
+@mpi_do man copyto!(b, ball)
+
+@mpi_do man lqA = Elemental.lq!(A);
+
+@mpi_do man x = lqA \ b;
+
+@mpi_do man localx = zeros(Float64, Elemental.localHeight(x), Elemental.localWidth(x))
+@mpi_do man copyto!(localx, Elemental.localpart(x))
+
+using Test
+x = vcat((fetch(@spawnat p localx)[:] for p in workers())...)
+@testset "lq" begin
+    @test x ≈ Ahost \ bhost
+end
diff --git a/test/distlu.jl b/test/distlu.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c7763d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/distlu.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+using MPI, MPIClusterManagers, Distributed
+
+man = MPIManager(np = 2);
+
+addprocs(man);
+
+@everywhere using LinearAlgebra, Elemental
+
+const M = 400
+const N = M
+
+@mpi_do man M = @fetchfrom 1 M
+@mpi_do man N = @fetchfrom 1 N
+
+const Ahost = rand(Float64, M, N)
+const bhost = rand(Float64, M)
+
+@mpi_do man Aall = @fetchfrom 1 Ahost
+@mpi_do man ball = @fetchfrom 1 bhost
+
+@mpi_do man A = Elemental.DistMatrix(Float64);
+@mpi_do man b = Elemental.DistMatrix(Float64);
+
+@mpi_do man A = Elemental.resize!(A, M, N);
+@mpi_do man b = Elemental.resize!(b, M);
+
+@mpi_do man copyto!(A, Aall)
+@mpi_do man copyto!(b, ball)
+
+@mpi_do man luA = Elemental.lu!(A);
+
+@mpi_do man x = luA \ b;
+
+@mpi_do man localx = zeros(Float64, Elemental.localHeight(x), Elemental.localWidth(x))
+@mpi_do man copyto!(localx, Elemental.localpart(x))
+
+using Test
+x = vcat((fetch(@spawnat p localx)[:] for p in workers())...)
+@testset "lu" begin
+    @test x ≈ Ahost \ bhost
+end
diff --git a/test/distqr.jl b/test/distqr.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc2cc3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/distqr.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+using MPI, MPIClusterManagers, Distributed
+
+man = MPIManager(np = 2);
+
+addprocs(man);
+
+@everywhere using LinearAlgebra, Elemental
+
+const M = 400
+const N = 300
+
+@mpi_do man M = @fetchfrom 1 M
+@mpi_do man N = @fetchfrom 1 N
+
+const Ahost = rand(Float64, M, N)
+const bhost = rand(Float64, M)
+
+@mpi_do man Aall = @fetchfrom 1 Ahost
+@mpi_do man ball = @fetchfrom 1 bhost
+
+@mpi_do man A = Elemental.DistMatrix(Float64);
+@mpi_do man b = Elemental.DistMatrix(Float64);
+
+@mpi_do man A = Elemental.resize!(A, M, N);
+@mpi_do man b = Elemental.resize!(b, M);
+
+@mpi_do man copyto!(A, Aall)
+@mpi_do man copyto!(b, ball)
+
+@mpi_do man qrA = Elemental.qr!(A);
+
+@mpi_do man x = qrA \ b;
+
+@mpi_do man localx = zeros(Float64, Elemental.localHeight(x), Elemental.localWidth(x))
+@mpi_do man copyto!(localx, Elemental.localpart(x))
+
+using Test
+x = vcat((fetch(@spawnat p localx)[:] for p in workers())...)
+@testset "qr" begin
+    @test x ≈ Ahost \ bhost
+end
diff --git a/test/factor.jl b/test/factor.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2117e3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/factor.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+
+using Elemental, Test, Random, LinearAlgebra
+Random.seed!(1)
+
+@testset "factor" begin
+    @testset "qr!" begin
+        N = 10
+        M = 9
+
+        A = rand(ComplexF64, N, M)
+        b = rand(ComplexF64, N)
+
+        A1 = Elemental.Matrix(ComplexF64)
+        Elemental.resize!(A1, size(A)...);
+        A1 .= A
+
+        qrA = Elemental.qr!(A1)
+
+        b0 = Elemental.Matrix(ComplexF64)
+
+        Elemental.resize!(b0, length(b), 1);
+        b0 .= b
+
+        x = A \ b
+        #@show A'*A * x .- A' *b
+        x1 = Vector(Matrix(qrA \ b0)[:])
+        @test isapprox(x1, x)
+    end
+    @testset "lq!" begin
+        N = 9
+        M = 10
+
+        A = rand(ComplexF64, N, M)
+        b = rand(ComplexF64, N)
+
+        A1 = Elemental.Matrix(ComplexF64)
+        Elemental.resize!(A1, size(A)...);
+        A1 .= A
+
+        lqA = Elemental.lq!(A1)
+
+        b0 = Elemental.Matrix(ComplexF64)
+
+        Elemental.resize!(b0, length(b), 1);
+        b0 .= b
+
+        x = A \ b
+        #@show A'*A * x .- A' *b
+        x1 = Vector(Matrix(lqA \ b0)[:])
+        @test isapprox(x1, x)
+    end
+    @testset "lu!" begin
+        N = 10
+        M = 10
+
+        A = rand(ComplexF64, N, M)
+        b = rand(ComplexF64, N)
+
+        A1 = Elemental.Matrix(ComplexF64)
+        Elemental.resize!(A1, size(A)...);
+        A1 .= A
+
+        luA = Elemental.lu!(A1)
+
+        b0 = Elemental.Matrix(ComplexF64)
+
+        Elemental.resize!(b0, length(b), 1);
+        b0 .= b
+
+        x = A \ b
+        #@show A'*A * x .- A' *b
+        x1 = Vector(Matrix(luA \ b0)[:])
+        @test isapprox(x1, x)
+    end
+    @testset "cholesky!" begin
+        N = 10
+        M = 10
+
+        A = rand(ComplexF64, N, M)
+        A .+= A'
+        A .+= 10 .* I(N)
+        b = rand(ComplexF64, N)
+
+        A1 = Elemental.Matrix(ComplexF64)
+        Elemental.resize!(A1, size(A)...);
+        A1 .= A
+
+        chA = Elemental.cholesky!(A1)
+
+        b0 = Elemental.Matrix(ComplexF64)
+
+        Elemental.resize!(b0, length(b), 1);
+        b0 .= b
+
+        x = A \ b
+        #@show A'*A * x .- A' *b
+        x1 = Vector(Matrix(chA \ b0)[:])
+        @test isapprox(x1, x)
+    end
+
+
+end
+