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<font face="Ubuntu">Thanks Jed for your reply.<br>
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1) I will use the DMDA object type then. I am still not very clear
about the difference between DA and DMDA though.<br>
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2) I am not interested in having ghost nodes updated. I want the
proper values of the solution on the proper processor.<br>
I have to fill the known-terms-vector with nodes-dependent
values ( in contrast with </font>ex45f.F, where vector b is
filled with 1s, thus there is<br>
no dependence on the grid location). Since every processor
defines "non-local" (according to the PETSc internal ordering)
components, the vector is re-arranged<br>
and so is the solution vector. So I will have on every process
a solution which partially should be on a difference process. And
this is not about ghost cell.<br>
Sorry for this long explanation but I am trying to be as clear
as I can.<br>
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Thank you fro your help and patience,<br>
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Michele<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/26/2012 10:42 AM, Jed Brown
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Michele
Rosso <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Ubuntu">Hi,<br>
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I need some help to use the PETSc library inside my
Fortran 95 code.<br>
My goal is to solve a symmetric linear system that derives
from the finite difference discretization<br>
of the Poisson equation. I will use the preconditioned
conjugate method.<br>
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I am mostly interested in how to decompose my data among
the different processes. <br>
In particular:<br>
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1) Since my code already implements the 2D-decomposition,
would it be best to build the matrix with the DMDA object
type, DA object type<br>
or the regular Mat type? <br>
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<div>It is certainly easiest to just use DMDA (and you will get
geometric multigrid for free, which is unbeatable for this
problem), but you can work directly with Mat if you prefer.
See src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex45f.F for a Fortran
example.</div>
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2) After inserting values into a vector/matrix, PETSc
performs any needed message passing of nonlocal
components, thus the values locally contained on a
process may be communicated to another process. How can
I revert this at the end of the computation, that is, how
can I be sure that the local solution vector contains the
values associated to the grid nodes contained into the
hosting process?<br>
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<div>Please read the section of the user's manual on local
versus global spaces and the structured grid decompositions.
If you use DM, there is DMGlobalToLocalBegin/End that update
the ghost points in the local vectors.</div>
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Thank you,<br>
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Michele</font> </div>
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