<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 18:17, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":1rl">BTW: It is also possible to put many vectors and matrices in the same file and read them in using several different ways using PetscBinaryRead(). I (personally) think any approach that involves creating hundreds of files is nuts.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br><div>To be fair, such files (in PETSc binary format) do not have an index (e.g. to see the names and types of objects available in the file) or implement "seek" behavior (to just read the 19th vector).</div>