<div dir="ltr"><div>I faced the below error during compiling my code for using MatGetSubMatrices.<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">error: cannot convert ‘IS {aka _p_IS*}’ to ‘_p_IS* const*’ for argument ‘3’ to ‘PetscErrorCode MatGetSubMatrices(Mat, PetscInt, _p_IS* const*, _p_IS* const*, MatReuse, _p_Mat***)’<br> MatGetSubMatrices(m_WA_norm_T, 1, set, set, MAT_INITIAL_MATRIX, &m_local_W);<br></blockquote><br></div>My code :<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">PetscMPIInt rank;<br>MPI_Comm_rank(PETSC_COMM_WORLD, &rank);<br><br>if(rank ==0){<br> Mat m_local_W;<br> MatCreateSeqAIJ(PETSC_COMM_SELF,num_points,num_points, num_nz, NULL,&m_local_W);// try to reserve space for only number of final non zero entries for each fine node (e.g. 4)<br> IS set;<br> ISCreateStride(PETSC_COMM_SELF, num_points, 0, 1, &set_row);<br> MatGetSubMatrices(m_WA_norm_T, 1, set_row, set_col, MAT_INITIAL_MATRIX, &m_local_W);<br><br> }<br></blockquote><div> <br></div><div>I followed below example:<br><a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/vec/is/is/examples/tutorials/ex2.c.html">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/vec/is/is/examples/tutorials/ex2.c.html</a><br><br></div><div><br><br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:19 PM, ehsan sadrfaridpour <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it.sadr@gmail.com" target="_blank">it.sadr@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 dir="ltr">Thanks a lot for great support.<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:11 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>
MatGetSubmatrices() just have the first process request all the rows and columns and the others request none. You can use ISCreateStride() to create the ISs without having to make an array of all the indices.<br>
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> On Jun 29, 2016, at 1:43 PM, ehsan sadrfaridpour <<a href="mailto:it.sadr@gmail.com" target="_blank">it.sadr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> I need to have access to most of elements of a parallel MPIAIJ matrix only from 1 process (rank 0).<br>
> I tried to copy or duplicate it to SEQAIJ, but I faced problems.<br>
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> How can I have a local copy of a matrix which is distributed on multiple process? I don't want to update the matrix, and the read-only version of it would be enough.<br>
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> Best,<br>
> Ehsan<br>
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