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<div>AH ! Thanks very much Aron<a></a><a></a>. </div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div id="divRpF300274" style="DIRECTION: ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> petsc-users-bounces@mcs.anl.gov [petsc-users-bounces@mcs.anl.gov] on behalf of Aron Ahmadia [aron.ahmadia@kaust.edu.sa]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 27, 2010 10:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> PETSc users list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [petsc-users] Meaning of MatStencil<br>
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<div>MatStencil only makes sense if you are using a distributed grid (DA), where it corresponds to physical field locations. You probably just want MatSetValuesBlocked (<a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Mat/MatSetValuesBlocked.html" target="_blank">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Mat/MatSetValuesBlocked.html</a>)
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<div>Warm Regards,</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Raeth, Peter <span dir="ltr">
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Am a new PETSc<a></a><a></a> user trying to make use of the matrix level to create and operate on matrices whose memory exceeds that available on any one node. To populate a distributed dense matrix with results
of other matrix calculations we are trying to use MatSetValuesBlockedStencil<a></a><a></a>. Two of the inputs to that function require structures of type MatStencil<a></a><a></a>. After searching the archives, tutorials, examples, and Google, I can not find
anything that explains what the values of MatStencil<a></a><a></a> are meant to do relative to where in the target matrix to place the block of values. Would someone<a></a> please point me in the right direction?</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Thanks,</div>
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