[petsc-users] how to get info on matmpiaij distribution

[Barry Smith]

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On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:10 PM, France Boillod-Cerneux <boillod.france at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear PETSc-users,
> I need some help regarding the matmpiaij matrix format.
> 
> In my application, I use currently the matmpiaij format, and i load the matrix using petsc binary file format.
> 
> i understood that for mpiaij format, wether you know the distribution of your matrix and use the matcreateaij function therefore you can know with precision the data distribution, 
> wether you create it without this knowledge and petsc will take care about efficient data distribution for you.
> 
> i am in the second case, and i want to know the memory at runtime allowed by petsc to store the matrix on each process, for the format mpiaij.
> i saw the function matgetlocalsize but there's a warning on it (function is implementation dependant use with care). so i don't know if in my case i can use it or not. (if you have any documentation about it, i would like to have it)
> 
> if not, can you tell me if there is any petsc function to get the memory size of submatrix on each process? i saw the function petscmemorygetcurrentusage but i am not sure if it would correspond to my issue. if still not, how can i estimate it (i mean by this, i can have approximately the parallel matrix distribution with mpiaij format)? 
> 
> thank you very much,
> 
> France
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