<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 4:36 AM 김성익 <<a href="mailto:ksi2443@gmail.com">ksi2443@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">Hello,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">I have a question about memory of
matsetvalue.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">When I assembly the local matrix to global
matrix, I’m just using matsetvalue. <br>
Because the connectivity is so complex I can’t use matsetvalues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">I asked this question because I was curious
about how ram memory is allocated differently for the two simtuations below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">First situation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">The local matrix size is 24 by 24. And the
number of local matrix is 125,000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">When assembly procedure by using
matsetvalue, memory allocation does not increase.<br>
So I just put Matassemblybegin and matassemblyend after all matsetvalue.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">Second situation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">The local matrix size is 60 by 60. And the
number of local matrix is 27,000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">When assembly procedure by using matsetvalue,
memory allocation does increase.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">So I just put Matassemblybegin and
matassemblyend after each local matrix assembly.<br>
This did not increase the memory further..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">Why this situation is happen?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">And is there any way to prevent the memory
allocation from increasing?</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Matrix assembly has two stages. First you insert entries into the local portion of your parallel matrix</div><div>using MatSetValue(s). If all values you try to insert are local, this is the end.</div><div><br></div><div>However, if you try to insert values that are local to another process, we store those values. When you</div><div>call MatAssemblyBegin/End(), we communicate them to the correct process and insert.</div><div><br></div><div>For a scalable code, you should insert most values on the correct process. If not, significant memory</div><div>can be consumed storing these values. Anywhere in the assembly process you can call</div><div><br></div><div> MatAssemblyBegin(A, MAT_ASSEMBLY_FLUSH);</div><div> MatAssemblyEnd(A, MAT_ASSEMBLY_FLUSH);</div><div><br></div><div>This will communicate the cache of values, but not end the assembly.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">Hyung Kim</span></p></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>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><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>