Petsc questions

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Aug 15 21:28:15 CDT 2008


    The matrix name is MATMPIAIJ, not MPIAIJ

    Barry

We always recomment using implicit none with Fortran so it will
flag all undefined variables and prevent problems like this.

On Aug 15, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Nguyen, Hung V ERDC-ITL-MS wrote:

>
> Hello All,
>
> I have question about how to write a matrix to output file in binary  
> (or
> ASCII) format.
> In the test case below, the ai is original matrix and a is petsc  
> version.
>
> The test runs successfully to write a binary file named "matrix.mat".
> However, when I rerun the test with reading matrix via "matload",  
> then I got
> the error "Unknown Mat type given: !". Please let me know how to fix  
> it.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Regards,
>
> -Hung
>
> -- error at running:
> yod -np 16 ./fw -ksp_type cg -pc_type bjacobi -ksp_rtol 1.0e-15 - 
> ksp_max_it
> 50000
>
> hvnguyen:sapphire18% yod -np 16 ./fw -ksp_type cg -pc_type bjacobi - 
> ksp_rtol
> 1.0e-15 -ksp_max_it 50000
> [10]PETSC ERROR: [9]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
> ------------------------------------
> --------------------- Error Message  
> ------------------------------------
> [10]PETSC ERROR: [9]PETSC ERROR: Unknown type. Check for miss- 
> spelling or
> missing external package needed for type!
> Unknown type. Check for miss-spelling or missing external package  
> needed for
> type!
> [10]PETSC ERROR: [9]PETSC ERROR: Unknown Mat type given: !
> Unknown Mat type given: !
> [10]PETSC ERROR: [9]PETSC ERROR:
>
> ---code:
> !         Define the a matrix.
>
>      ione = 1
>      ii = ncol
>      jj = ncol / 2
>      call MatCreateMPIAIJ (PETSC_COMM_WORLD, nown, nown, ng, ng,
>     &  ii, PETSC_NULL_INTEGER, jj, PETSC_NULL_INTEGER, a, ierr)
>      call MatSetFromOptions (a, ierr)
>
>      do i = 1, nown
>
>        ii = npetsc(i) - 1
>
>        do j = 1, ncol
>          jloc = id(i, j)
>          if (jloc .ne. 0) then
>            jj = npetsc(jloc) - 1
>            v = ai(i, j)
>            call MatSetValues (a, ione, ii, ione, jj, v,
>     &        INSERT_VALUES, ierr)
>          end if
>        end do
>
>      end do
>
>      call MatAssemblyBegin (a, MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY, ierr)
>      call MatAssemblyEnd (a, MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY, ierr)
>
> !        Now Write this matrix to a binary file
> !
>         call PetscViewerBinaryOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,'matrix.mat',
> &
>     &        FILE_MODE_WRITE,view,ierr)
>         call  
> PetscViewerSetFormat(view,PETSC_VIEWER_BINARY_NATIVE,ierr)
>         call MatView(A,view,ierr)
>         call PetscViewerDestroy(view,ierr)
>
>
> ---- Test to load A matix:
> !!! read matrix
>
>      call  
> PetscViewerBinaryOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,'matrix.mat',         &
>     &                          FILE_MODE_READ,view,ierr)
>         call  
> PetscViewerSetFormat(view,PETSC_VIEWER_BINARY_NATIVE,ierr)
>      call MatLoad(view,MPIAIJ,A,ierr)
>      CHKERRQ(ierr)
>      call PetscViewerDestroy(view,ierr)
>
>




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