[petsc-users] I am wondering if there is a way to implement SPMM

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Cong Li <solvercorleone at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am sorry that I should have explained it more clearly.
> Actually I want to compute a recurrence.
>
> Like, I want to firstly compute A*X1=B1, and then calculate A*B1=B2,
> A*B2=B3 and so on.
> Finally I want to combine all these results into a bigger matrix C=[B1,B2
> ...]
>
> Is there any way to do this efficiently.
>

You could use a MatNest, however now this seems like thw wrong way to
calculate it. Why
do you want to put a matrix polynomial into another matrix?

   Matt


> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Patrick Sanan <patrick.sanan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:42:14PM +0900, Cong Li wrote:
>> > Thanks for your reply.
>> >
>> > I have an other question.
>> > I want to do SPMM several times and combine result matrices into one
>> bigger
>> > matrix.
>> > for example
>> > I firstly calculate AX1=B1, AX2=B2 ...
>> > then I want to combine B1, B2.. to get a C, where C=[B1,B2...]
>> >
>> > Could you please suggest a way of how to do this.
>> This is just linear algebra, nothing to do with PETSc specifically.
>> A * [X1, X2, ... ] = [AX1, AX2, ...]
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Cong Li
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Cong Li <solvercorleone at gmail.com> writes:
>> > >
>> > > > Hello,
>> > > >
>> > > > I am a PhD student using PETsc for my research.
>> > > > I am wondering if there is a way to implement SPMM (Sparse
>> matrix-matrix
>> > > > multiplication) by using PETSc.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Mat/MatMatMult.html
>> > >
>>
>
>


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