<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I would like to solve a large linear system. I have a linear operator that operates on a "state" vector. The linear operator does things like take the sum of the state elements, take the cross product of the state with a known vector, and then multiply the state by a large (distributed) matrix. You could imagine it like this:</div>
<div><br></div><div>[sum of elements, cross product with other vector, multiplication with large matrix] = A * x</div><div><br></div><div>Now, I realize it is possible to implement all of this using a large matrix. After all, these are all linear operations. However, I thought it might be faster and less error-prone to use some of numpy's built-in operations, for the sums and cross products, and only use a distributed matrix for the last part of the output. </div>
<div><br></div><div>From the PETSc documentation, it seems like a matrix shell would be perfect for this. I could define my own mult operator that does all of these things in steps, using built-in numpy functions when appropriate and direct matrix multiplication when appropriate. However, I cannot figure out how to do this in petsc4py. I found somewhere online that perhaps createPython is the way I need to go about this, but I couldn't figure out the details. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Any ideas?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan Tu</div></div>