Matt,<div><br></div><div>I'm new to PETSC, can you pls explain what you mean by 'keep it in unassembled form'?</div><div><br></div><div>A small example would be nice too. Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Yifei<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Yifei Li <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yifli82@gmail.com" target="_blank">yifli82@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>I did not find any function doing this in the manual. Could someone suggest a good way to do this?</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>That gives a dense matrix. You would never want to do this. You would keep it in unassembled form.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> </div>
<div>Thanks</div><span><font color="#888888">
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<div>Yifei</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
</font></span></font></span></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener<br>
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