[petsc-users] Is sparsity of Vec exploited in MatMult?

Hui Zhang buyong.huier at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 08:09:20 CST 2012


Hi,

Is sparsity of Vec exploited in MatMult? I'm implementing some domain decomposition
methods. The residual is non-zero or significant only at very few nodes. Does
MatMult knows that most entries of the Vec are zeros? Is there a threshold to
regard an value as zero?

Thanks,
Hui


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