VecView and MPI IO

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Shao-Ching Huang <schuang at ats.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create restart/check-pointing files for a time-stepping
> simulation (by writing out vectors to files).
>
> 1. Does VecView always use the MPI collective I/O?
>
>   The HTML documentation of PetscViewerBinaryOpen says: "For writing
>   files it only opens the file on processor 0 in the communicator."

You must run with -viewer_binary_mpiio. However, I recommend very very
strongly that you profile this first. We have not need to use MPI/IO below
several thousand processors.

> 2. Do I have to set anything to enable MPI I/O when configuring PETSc?
>   (My MPI library has MPI I/O.)

This should happen automatically.

  Matt

> Thank you.
>
> Shao-Ching
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