sparsity pattern setup

[Fredrik Bengzon]

Hi,
Ryan, I'm aware of Barry's post

https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/htdig/petsc-users/2008-May/003020.html

and it workes fine for triangle meshes. However, I do not see how this 
can be used for tetrahedral meshes.
/Fredrik


Ryan Yan wrote:
> Hi Fredrik,
> If I understand correctly, I have the same issue as what you have here.
>
> I do not have the code yet(It is also depends on how your store your 
> matrix data.).  But I can forward Barry's idea to you.  Hope this is 
> helpful to you.
>
> Yan,
>
>     Simply read through the ASCII file(s) twice. The first time count 
> the number of blocks per row, then preallocate then read through the 
> ASCII file again reading and setting the values. This will be very fast.
>
>   Barry
> - Hide quoted text -
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Ryan Yan wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>     I have a large size application. Mesh size is 30000 nodes, with
>     dof 25 on each vertex. And it's 3d unstructured,  Tet, and Hex
>     mesh. In the following I will denote blksize=25
>
>     I am testing how to build up a PETSc matrix object quick and fast.
>
>     The data I have is Block Compressed Sparse Row(BCSR) files. And my
>     objective is to read BCSR files and generate PETSc Binaries
>
>     Firstly, I choose the MATMPIAIJ, I opened the BCSR data files on
>     each processor, and set up the preallocation use
>     MatMPIAIJSetPreallocation(A,blksize,PETSC_NULL,blksize,PETSC_NULL);
>     The reason why I choose 25 as the number for d_nz and o_nz is that
>     I do not have access to the ordering of the vertices. So it's the
>     worst case set up, and it takes about 7 minutes on 30 MIPS
>     node(180 processors) to write the output into PETSc binaries.
>
>     Secondly, I choose the MatMPIBAIJ, and same procedure as above,
>     but also set up
>     MatMPIBAIJSetPreallocation(A,blksize,blksize,PETSC_NULL,blksize,PETSC_NULL),
>     here blksize = 25 and it's also the worst case; This experiments
>     takes forever and could not generate the PETSc binaries.
>
>     I guess the reason why it takes so long in the MATMPIBAIJ case is
>     that I did not set up the preallocation accurately. Alougth I
>     think the preallocation is also not accurate in the MATMPIAIJ
>     case, but it seems like the preallocation effect is not as serious
>     as for the MPIBAIJ. Correct me please, if there are other reasons.
>
>     Can I anyone please give a hint on how to set up the preallocation
>     right for a unstructured mesh without knowing the mesh ordering?
>
>     Thank you very much in advance,
>
>     Yan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Fredrik Bengzon 
> <fredrik.bengzon at math.umu.se <mailto:fredrik.bengzon at math.umu.se>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     This is probably the wrong forum to ask, but does anyone have a
>     piece of code for computing the correct ndnz and nodnz vectors
>     needed for assembly of the stiffness (MPIAIJ) matrix on an
>     unstructured tetrahedral mesh given the node-to-element adjacency?
>     Thanks,
>     Fredrik
>
>