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Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 16:16:23 CDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Kristen Eisenberg <
kristen.eisenberg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> [petsc-users] SLEPc generalized eigenvalue problem question?
>
> I create 2 matrices using:
>
> MatCreateSeqDense(PETSC_COMM_SELF, n, n, Ka, &A);
> MatCreateSeqDense(PETSC_COMM_SELF, n, n, Kb, &B);
> These matrices are 99% zeros ( 16,016,004 entries and 18660 non-zeros).
> They are symmetric and real. Their tri-diagonal elements are non-zero plus
> a few other entries.
>

You would get better performance and use less memory if you made these
matrices
of type MATAIJ.

   Matt


> I tried to use ex7 for the generalized eigenvalue problem:
>
> ./ex7.exe -f1 k.dat -f2 m.dat -eps_gen_hermitian -eps_smallest_real > x.out
> 2>&1
>
> without specifying an EPS and get:
>
> Generalized eigenproblem stored in file.
>
> Reading REAL matrices from binary files...
> Number of iterations of the method: 500
> Number of linear iterations of the method: 4009
> Solution method: krylovschur
>
> Number of requested eigenvalues: 1
> Stopping condition: tol=1e-07, maxit=500
> Number of converged approximate eigenpairs: 0
>
> Is krylovschur inappropriate for this problem or have I set up the problem
> incorrectly by using MatCreateSeqDense(...) to create the matrix input
> files in PETSc binary form?
>
> Kristen Eisenberg
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