Matlab and PETSc communication

[Michel Cancelliere]

Hi,

I am trying to use the function sread() but when I run the matlab program it
give me this error:

-One or more output arguments not assigned during call to "sread".

and nothing happen... I also tried to use sreader but matlab didn't respond,
am I doing something wrong? I am using Matlab R2008a, which matlab version
is the most compatible with Petsc?

Thank you,

Michel

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Michel Cancelliere wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>> Thank you for your response, I think the socket communication between
>> Matlab and PETSc  is what I need, I took a look to the example ex12.c and
>> ex12.m (Simple example to show how to PETSc programs can be run from Matlab)
>> but in this case PETSc send the Vector solution that matlab "receive", is it
>> possible to make the inverse? Send  the variable from matlab to PETSc using
>> socket communication? can PetscMatlabEngineGet do that ? How it works?
>>
>
>  You don't really want to use the Matlab Engine code, because with this
> approach the PETSc program is "in charge" and just sends work requests
> to Matlab. Instead you want Matlab in charge and to send work requests to
> PETSc.
>
>   The basic idea is that both Matlab and PETSc open a socket connection to
> each other. On the PETSc side use PetscViewerSocketOpen() on the Matlab side
> use the bin/matlab/@sreader/sreader.m class to create a (Matlab) socket
> object. Now on the PETSc side you can make calls to VecView() to send
> vectors to
> Matlab and VecLoad() and MatLoad() to read vectors and matrices from
> Matlab. On the Matlab side use PetscBinaryRead() and PetscBinaryWrite() to
> read vectors from PETSc and to write vectors and matrices to PETSc. Your
> PETSc program may end up looking something like
>
>    PetscViewerSocketOpen(..... &socket);
>
>   do forever:
>      VecLoad(socket, &b)
>      MatLoad(socket,....,&A)
>
>      KSPSetOperators(ksp,A,A,....)
>      KSPSolve(ksp,b,x)
>      VecView(socket,x)
>
>   You Matlab program could look something like
>
>      socket = sread()
>
>      do forever:
>
>         Create your vector and matrix
>         PetscBinaryWrite(socket,b)
>         PetscBinaryWrite(socket,A)
>         x = PetscBinaryRead(socket)
>
>  The details and correct syntax are obviously not given.
>
>   Good luck,
>
>   Barry
>
>
>
>>
>> Aron, I was studying your recommendation but it means that I have to write
>> all the function from my Matlab Code to C?, because it should take me a lot
>> of time and this work is part of my MSc Thesis and maybe I need a less time
>> consuming solution.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Aron Ahmadia <aja2111 at columbia.edu>
>> wrote:
>> Michel,
>>
>> I would recommend investing the time to write your C/C++ wrapper code a
>> little higher up around the Newton iteration, since PETSc provides a great
>> abstraction interface for it.  Then you could write code to build the matrix
>> (or assemble a matrix-free routine!) in C/C++, and pass the parameters in
>> from there.
>>
>> ~Aron
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Jul 21, 2008, at 7:57 PM, Michel Cancelliere wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi, I am a new user of PETSc. I am working in Reservoir Simulation and
>> I
>> >> have been developing the simulator inside Matlab. I have some question
>> in
>> >> order to understand better my possibilities of success in what I want
>> to do:
>> >>
>> >>        • I want to solve the linear system obtained from the inner
>> >> iterations in the newton method using PETSc, is it possible to
>> communicate
>> >> in an efficient way PETSc  with Matlab to do that? I now that I can
>> write
>> >> binary files and then read with PETSc but due the size of the matrix it
>> is a
>> >> very time-expensive way. Where i can find some examples? I look at the
>> >> examples within the package but I could not find it. \
>> >>        • It is possible to call PETSc library inside Matlab? Using the
>> Mex
>> >> files and Matlab compiler?
>> >
>> >   There is no code to do this. It is possible but pretty complicated to
>> > write the appropriate Mex code. (Because
>> > each Mex function is a separate shared library you cannot just write a
>> Mex
>> > function for each PETSc function since they
>> > would not share the PETSc global variables. You would have to write one
>> Mex
>> > function that is a "gatekeeper" and calls
>> > the requested PETSc function underneath. I've monkeyed with this a few
>> times
>> > but did not have the time/energy/intellect
>> > to write code to automate this process. Give me 300,000 dollars and we
>> could
>> > hire someone to write this :-)
>> >
>> >  You might look at the "newly improved" socket interface in petsc-dev
>> > (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/developers/index.html).
>> > With this you write a stand alone C PETSc program that waits at a
>> socket,
>> > receive the matrix and right hand side and then
>> > sends back the solution. The code for marshalling the matrices and
>> vector is
>> > common between the sockets and binary files.
>> > On the Matlab side you create a "file" that is actually a socket
>> connection.
>> > See src/sys/viewer/impls/socket/matlab This may
>> > take a little poking around and you asking us a couple of questions to
>> get
>> > it.
>> > Note there is no inherent support for parallelism on the PETSc side with
>> > this setup but I think it is possible.
>>
>> I personally think this would be much easier in Sage than in Matlab
>> proper. In fact,
>> with Sage you could use petsc4py directly, and directly access the
>> data structures
>> as numpy arrays if necessary.
>>
>>  Matt
>>
>> >   Barry
>> >
>> >
>> >> Thank you very much for your time,
>> >>
>> >> Michel Cancelliere
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
>> their experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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