[petsc-users] DMDA questions

[Jed Brown]

Xiangdong <epscodes at gmail.com> writes:
> For example, if the values on the 4-by-4 grid are [1,2,3,4;  5,6,7,8;
>  9,10,11,12; 13,14,15,16]. If I use 4 processors and set m=2, n=2 (or use
> petsc_decide), then on processor zero, the local portion of the global
> vector is 1,2,3,4

No, PETSc global ordering is different from natural.  There is a
detailed picture of this in the users manual and in most PETSc
tutorials.  Please read that.

> while the local vector has value 1,2,5,6. On processor one, the local
> portion of the global vector is 5,6,7,8; and the local vector is
> 3,4,7,8. It looks like the global is natural order, while local vector
> is petsc order.

No.

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>> > 2) DOF. In each cell, I have two unknowns, say ux and uy. One way is to
>> > store them using one global vector with dof=2. The other way is to create
>> > two global vectors for each ux and uy with dof=1. Is one approach better
>> > than the other?
>>
>> The former is better for memory streaming unless your operations
>> traverse the grid using only one at a time (and then, it would be better
>> to rephrase to traverse fewer times, using both values each time).
>>
>
> Any examples in petsc tutorials demonstrating the case dof>1? I found most
> of them are dof=1. For dof>1, are the values stored in a interleaved
> manner?

src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex48.c uses dof=2 and MatSetValuesBlockedStencil.
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