  We consider the application of implicit and linearly implicit
(Rosenbrock-type) peer methods to matrix-valued ordinary differential
equations. In particular the differential Riccati equation (DRE) is
investigated. For the Rosenbrock-type schemes, a reformulation capable of
avoiding a number of Jacobian applications is developed that, in the autonomous
case, reduces the computational complexity of the algorithms. Dealing with
large-scale problems, an efficient implementation based on low-rank symmetric
indefinite factorizations is presented. The performance of both peer approaches
up to order 4 is compared to existing implicit time integration schemes for
matrix-valued differential equations.
