blocked index sets

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 10:23:04 CDT 2008


There is no concept of global for IS. They are purely serial. AO is the only
global construct with indices.

  Matt

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe we have to review the interface of ISBlock. Currently,
> ISBlockGetSize() return the number of LOCAL block indices. This is not
> consistent with other naming conventions for getting local and glocal
> sizes. I propose to change this to the following
>
> 1) change: ISBlockGetSize() returns the number global blocks
> 2) addition:  ISBlockGetLocalSize() return the number of local blocks
>
> Comments?
>
>
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