<div dir="ltr"><div>Gather all values to rank 0 and do a sequential sort there, then profile to see whether it is a performance bottleneck in your code.</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--Junchao Zhang</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:14 AM Antoine Côté <<a href="mailto:Antoine.Cote3@usherbrooke.ca">Antoine.Cote3@usherbrooke.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">I need to compute the permutations to sort scalar values of a Vec object in decreasing order. I've been
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I would like to run the code on multiple processes. From these links, I can see it's an issue : </div>
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<a href="https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2013-November/019628.html" target="_blank">https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2013-November/019628.html</a><br>
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<a href="https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2009-June/004621.html" target="_blank">https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2009-June/004621.html</a></div>
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One work around I've been considering : get the max scalar value using VecMax() ; compute a scaling factor that makes this max value equals the largest integer value tolerated by PetscInt ; scale all values of Vec and convert them to integers ; use PetscParallelSortInt()
; inverse the scaling on (now sorted) integers values and convert them back to scalars.</div>
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This is only a patch really, the main issues being : <span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">(1) I would get a sorted Vec, not the permutations and (2) there would be a lost of information when converting scalars to int
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thank you very much!</span></div>
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