<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 5:58 PM Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev <<a href="mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov">petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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I think MPIAIJ was selected because it provided the most parallel functionality compared to MPIDENSE for which more operations were not written.<br>
This may not be relevant any more. <br>
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Definitely the code needs to be fixed. Fixing MatConvert_Shell(); it should just assume <br>
the matrices are dense and preallocate for them.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We should restore preallocation. It should be easy to do with Preallocator.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> On Apr 19, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Stefano Zampini via petsc-dev <<a href="mailto:petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What is the rationale behind MatComputeExplicitOperator returning SEQDENSE in sequential and MPIAIJ in parallel?<br>
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> Also, before commit <a href="https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/b3d09e869df0e6ebcb615ca876706bfed4fcf1cd" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/b3d09e869df0e6ebcb615ca876706bfed4fcf1cd</a> full preallocation of the MPIAIJ matrix was happening. Now, if we have a very dense operator that we want to sample just for testing purposes (inspecting entries, etc..) we have to pay the price of reallocating over and over.<br>
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> What is the proper fix? 1) Use MPIDENSE? 2) Restore full preallocation for MPIAIJ? 3) Have MatComputeExplicitOperator to accept more arguments ? <br>
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> I'm in favor of 1<br>
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> Stefano<br>
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