<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Gideon Simpson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gideon.simpson@gmail.com" target="_blank">gideon.simpson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Other than zeroing things out, is there any substantive difference between DMCreateLocalVector and DMGetLocalVector?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Get version caches vectors, so you are not continually creating/destroying</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">
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> On Apr 14, 2015, at 7:02 PM, Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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> When PETSc vectors are created initially they always have 0 everywhere. So if you use DMCreateLocalVector() it will have zero in all those ghost places (as well as everywhere else).<br>
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> But if you use DMGetLocalVector() it returns vectors that maybe dirty so you need to fill in any locations you want to have a known value with that known value. Or call VecSet() to clear the entire vector.<br>
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>> On Apr 14, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Gideon Simpson <<a href="mailto:gideon.simpson@gmail.com">gideon.simpson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> If i use the DM_BOUNDARY_GHOSTED flag in the creation of a DMDA array, are the ghosted values automatically set to zero, or should they be manually set to zero if that’s the desired ghost value?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">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</div>
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