<div dir="ltr">I guess we still have a MATSBAIJ. <div>In theory you could modify the MatVec to do <span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">skew-symmetric, easily, but this is such a niche operation (never seen it requested in 20+ years) that I would not want to put it in the repo.</span><br><div>This would save <2x memory and <2x time. If you have a blocked system then it would be close to 2x.</div><div>You could do this in a branch and just rebase over main to update PETSc. Forever, or until you can convince us to merge it.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 3:26 PM Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 3:23 PM Yağmur Aksan <<a href="mailto:yagmuraksan@gmail.com" target="_blank">yagmuraksan@gmail.com</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"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I need a function that parallelly multiplies skew-symmetric matrix and vector. Is there any function that Petsc provides? </div><div>To do so, I think of using matMult function in Petsc and changing it to work with skew-symmetric matrices. But, I haven't found the implementation of MatMult function. If there isn't any other better option that you can recommend me, could you please tell me the link for the implementation of MatMult function?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you want to save memory by using the special format? It will not save computing, and the speed improvement can be very small.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</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"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you.</div></div></div></blockquote></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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