<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks once more.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>Okay, you can specify index sets for both sides and keep the same<br>meaning you have now, but if you call<br><br> AOCreateBasicIS(isg,NULL,&ao);<br><br>then the new ordering 'isg' is the "application ordering". This is<br>consistent with normal usage where "PETSc ordering" is the way data is<br>currently distributed and the "application ordering" is the ordering<br>that will be used for some other purpose.<br><br><a href="https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/2609aec54a581b5b53a7f4681bee8e97b5c70594">https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/2609aec54a581b5b53a7f4681bee8e97b5c70594</a><br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>OK, I see the point. </div><div><br></div><div>In any case, I would say that this usage of the terminology "application ordering" is not fully coherent with the discussion of section 2.3.1, </div><div>where (as far as I understood) "application ordering" is supposed to be the original ordering of the application data (mesh veticies, dof, etc…) before optimal </div><div>distribution of it (or, e.g., by calling the program in a single processor). </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Miguel</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 12px; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; ">INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt <br>Building 16, office 11</span></span></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: 12px; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; ">78153 Le Chesnay Cedex (France)<br>phone: +33 (0)1 3963 5470<br>fax: +33 (0)1 3963 5882<br><a href="http://www-rocq.inria.fr/who/Miguel.Fernandez" style="text-decoration: none; ">www-rocq.inria.fr/who/Miguel.Fernandez</a></span></span></span></div></div></body></html>