Can I use MatSetBlockSize() for MPIAIJ

Ryan Yan vyan2000 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 14:19:30 CST 2009


It works.
Thanks agian.

Yan

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Ryan Yan <vyan2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jed,
> Thanks,
> So the following is very confusing:
>
>
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Mat/MatSetValuesBlocked.html
>
> Notes The m and n count the NUMBER of blocks in the row direction and
> column direction, NOT the total number of rows/columns; for example, if the
> block size<http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Sys/size.html#size>is 2 and you are passing in values for rows 2,3,4,5 then m would be 2 (not
> 4). The values in idxm would be 1 2; that is the first index for each block
> divided by the block size<http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Sys/size.html#size>.
>
>
> Note that you must call MatSetBlockSize<http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/snapshots/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Mat/MatSetBlockSize.html#MatSetBlockSize>()
> when constructing this matrix (and before preallocating it).........
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Jed Brown <jed at 59a2.org> wrote:
>
>> Ryan Yan wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> > I have a question as follows:
>> >
>> > In order to use MatSetValuesBlocked() for a MPIAIJ matrix. I need to
>> > call MatSetBlockSize() when I create the matrix.
>>
>> Call MatSetBlockSize *after* preallocation.
>>
>> Jed
>>
>>
>
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