[petsc-users] matrix reordering

[Mohammad Mirzadeh]

Thanks Barry. I think I agree with you that right way to do it is through
mesh setup. As a matter of fact I have done that for some of my problems.
Yet, I can think of situations where that kind of support might be
beneficial, especially if someone (a.k.a me in this case!) is looking for a
'dirty and fast' fix.

Anyway, I still believe that in long term, one should do the partitioning
in a pre-processing step anyways and so there may not be much incentive for
adding such a support.

Thanks again,
Mohammad

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>    Mohammad,
>
>      We've thought about adding this kind of support this over the years
> but always came to the conclusion that "the right way to do it" is during
> the mesh setup step.
>
>    Barry
>
>
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Mohammad Mirzadeh <mirzadeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Quick question. *After* the matrix is setup, is it possible to ask PETSc
> to renumber the nodes internally in the KSPSolve phase to minimize
> communications for MatMul inside the solver? Can I use the MatPartitioning
> object for this or is that only intended to partition the mesh as a
> pre-processing step?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
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