<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">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"><br>
Hakon,<br>
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I have pushed to the branch barry/feature-hdf5-flexible-initial-dimension and next the change so that Vecs and Vecs obtained from DMCreateGlobalVector() with a DMDA will NOT have the extra dimension if BS == 1. To add that extra dimension even when bs == 1 with VecView() or to handle a file with that extra dimension with VecLoad() one must call PetscViewerHDF5SetBaseDimension2() or -viewer_hdf5_base_dimension2 true<br>
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Please try it out and let me know if you have any trouble<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Barry<br>
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Matt,<br>
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Scream as much as you want but adding that extra dimension automatically is not intuitive so it cannot be the default.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interfaces should be intuitive, file formats should be consistent. This gets that entirely wrong.</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 class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
> On Mar 25, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Håkon Strandenes <<a href="mailto:haakon@hakostra.net">haakon@hakostra.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Did you come to any conclusion on this issue?<br>
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> Regards,<br>
> Håkon<br>
><br>
> On 20. mars 2015 22:02, Håkon Strandenes wrote:<br>
>> On 20. mars 2015 20:48, Barry Smith wrote:<br>
>>> Why is 1 dimension a special case that is not worthy of its own<br>
>>> format? The same thing would hold for 2d and 3d. One could then argue<br>
>>> that we should have a single six dimensional format for the files for<br>
>>> all vectors that PETSc produces. Then a 1d problem has five of the<br>
>>> dimensions being 1.<br>
>><br>
>> This is a very good point, and support my view.<br>
>><br>
>> Let me come with two very simple example cases:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Case 1:<br>
>> Create a list of grid points in an external preprocessor for the purpose<br>
>> of loading this into a Vec later:<br>
>><br>
>> x = np.linspace(0.0, 1.0, num=21)<br>
>> f.create_dataset('/MESH/nodes/x', data=x)<br>
>><br>
>> vs.<br>
>><br>
>> x = np.linspace(0.0, 1.0, num=21)<br>
>> x = x.reshape((21,1))<br>
>> f.create_dataset('/MESH/nodes/x', data=x)<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Case 2:<br>
>> Read three Vecs written to disk by PETSc, and calculate total "bounding<br>
>> box volume" of the grid:<br>
>><br>
>> g = h5py.File('grid.h5', 'r')<br>
>> x = g['/MESH/nodes/x']<br>
>> y = g['/MESH/nodes/y']<br>
>> z = g['/MESH/nodes/z']<br>
>> Vol = (xp[-1] - xp[0])*(yp[-1] - yp[0])*(zp[-1] - zp[0])<br>
>><br>
>> vs.<br>
>><br>
>> g = h5py.File('grid.h5', 'r')<br>
>> x = g['/MESH/nodes/x'][:,0]<br>
>> y = g['/MESH/nodes/y'][:,0]<br>
>> z = g['/MESH/nodes/z'][:,0]<br>
>> Vol = (x[-1] - x[0])*(y[-1] - y[0])*(z[-1] - z[0])<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> In both cases I think handling this extra, unnecessary dimension makes<br>
>> the code less attractive. It's not that either way is difficult,<br>
>> problematic or impossible, but it's just that 1D Vecs should intuitively<br>
>> be 1D datasets, and not 2D, 3D or 6D. This seriously confused me for<br>
>> quite a while until I figured this out, even after having written an<br>
>> entire Navier-Stokes DNS solver using the PETSc library for everything<br>
>> except time integration and filling these simple 1D coordinate arrays!<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> Håkon<br>
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