symmetric matrices

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Mon May 22 10:47:47 CDT 2006


The Fortran interface fell behind. I will fix it in dev, but for now you can
just use the value, 91. You can also use the command line option.

Thanks,

   Matt

On 5/22/06, Randall Mackie <randy at geosystem.us> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to modify my code to take advantage of the fact that my system
> matrix
> is symmetric.
>
> It seemed from reading the manual pages that I could call
> MatCreateMPISBAIJ
> to create a symmetric data matrix.
>
> However, when I tried this, I got the error:
>
> [1]PETSC ERROR: Lower triangular value cannot be set for sbaij format.
> Ignoring these value
> s, run with -mat_ignore_lower_triangular or call
> MatSetOption(mat,MAT_IGNORE_LOWER_TRIANGUL
> AR)!
>
> So I tried including the line:
>
>        call MatSetOption(A,MAT_IGNORE_LOWER_TRIANGULAR,ierr)
>
> But when I tried to compile the code, I then got this message:
>
> fortcom: Error: csem3dfwd.F, line 771: This name does not have a type, and
> must have an explicit type.   [MAT_IGNORE_LOWER_TRIANGULAR]
>        call MatSetOption(A,MAT_IGNORE_LOWER_TRIANGULAR,ierr)
> --------------------------^
>
>
> So, can anyone point me in the right direction for taking advantage of the
> fact that
> my matrices are symmetric? (they are actually complex symmetric, and NOT
> Hermitian).
>
> Thanks, Randy
>
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