Getting Remote Distributed Vector Elements?

[Matthew Knepley]

On 7/23/07, Tim Stitt <timothy.stitt at ichec.ie> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone can suggest the most efficient method for
> obtaining any given element in a distributed vector? If I understand
> correctly VecGetValues() only returns local elements? I need to access
> non-local elements also. What is the best approach?

You create a VecScatter with these indices into a local vector, and then get
the array from that.

  Matt

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tim.
>
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