[petsc-dev] -snes_check_jacobian

[Barry Smith]

On Dec 13, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>   I suggest
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>     -snes_check_jacobian_view <ascii,draw,binary,…>
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> then MatView is just called on the appropriate viewer instead of ugly variant options like snes_check_jacobian_draw etc
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>     In fact this paradigm could be used many places, for example -mat_view -mat_view_socket -mat_view_binary -mat_view_draw   could be simplified to -mat_view <viewertype>
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> It would be nice if these could include a file name so that "binaryoutput" doesn't get swamped with everything. How about "-mat_view binary:filename.dat"?

   Working on it now.

  Barry

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>    Barry
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> We'll write a utility routine that when given a viewer type returns the appropriate canonical form.
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