[petsc-users] Reading vtk file in parallel and assigning to an array

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:47 PM, khalid ashraf <khalid_eee at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi, I have a .vtk file that I want to read. I want to read one floating
> point from each line of the file and assign the value to an array.
> If I use standard C commands like fscanf(), then it works on single
> processor but doesn't keep the right order when run on on multi processors.
> Could you please give a small code snippet to do it the PETSC way in
> parallel ?
>

The easiest way is to read it in serial, and save it in PETSc binary format.
Then it can be loaded in parallel.

   Matt


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