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<p>Dear Petsc list,</p>
<p>I have a question regarding reverse vec-scatters:</p>
<p>I have a shared memory solver that I want to use on a distributed
DMDA and average its results.</p>
<p>The shared mem solver needs some of the global state.</p>
<p>So I want to create a full copy of a global vec on each master
rank of a machine, compute some result</p>
<p>and average the results back into the global vec.<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>For example: the parallel layout for a global vector is<br>
</p>
<p>3 ranks in comm_world, each with Ndof = 6, so global size is 18<br>
</p>
<p>Then I create a mpi sub communicator with MPI_COMM_TYPE_SHARED</p>
<p>Then I create a local vec on each rank, with sizes 9 on each
rank_0 on the sub comm, size 0 otherwise</p>
<p> if ( sub_id == 0 ) then<br>
call VecGetSize(gvec, Nlocal, ierr); call CHKERR(ierr)<br>
else<br>
Nlocal = 0<br>
endif<br>
call VecCreateSeq(PETSC_COMM_SELF, Nlocal, lvec, ierr)<br>
<br>
</p>
<p>This yields for example (first 2 ranks in a shared mem subcomm,
3rd rank on another machine):</p>
<p>Global rank_id | sub_rank_id | local_size_gvec |
local_size_lvec<br>
</p>
<p>0 | 0 |
6 | 18<br>
</p>
<p>1 | 1 |
6 | 0</p>
<p>2 | 0 |
6 | 18<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>To copy the global vec on each shared mem master, I do:</p>
<p>ISCreateStride(PETSC_COMM_SELF, Nlocal, 0, 1, is, ierr)</p>
<p>VecScatterCreate(gvec, is, lvec, is, ctx, ierr)</p>
<p>VecScatterBegin(ctx, gvec, lvec, INSERT_VALUES, SCATTER_FORWARD,
ierr)</p>
<p>VecScatterEnd (ctx, gvec, lvec, INSERT_VALUES, SCATTER_FORWARD,
ierr)</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>That works fine.</p>
<p>Then I want to do the reverse, i.e. add all values from the local
vec to the global vec on comm_world to generate the average of the
results.</p>
<p>I tried:</p>
<p>VecSet(gvec, zero, ierr)</p>
<p>VecScatterBegin(ctx, gvec, lvec, ADD_VALUES, SCATTER_REVERSE,
ierr)</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>I was hoping to get the sum of svec in the global vec, so that
gvec / comm_size(sub_comm_id==0) gives the mean.</p>
<p>However, I get the following error:</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Nonconforming object sizes</p>
<p>Vector wrong size 18 for scatter 6 (scatter reverse and vector to
!= ctx from size)</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Going with the same approach with <a
href="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Vec/VecScatterCreateToAll.html#VecScatterCreateToAll">VecScatterCreateToAll</a>
leads to the same issue.<br>
</p>
<p>Do you have suggestions on how I could/should achieve it?</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Many thanks!</p>
<p>Fabian<br>
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