[petsc-users] DM and HDF5 Viewer

[Jed Brown]

Gianluca Meneghello <gianmail at gmail.com> writes:

> I need both right and left vectors for use in a SLEPc SVD decomposition; it
> is my understanding that the correct layout is obtained with MatCreateVecs
> and that only the layout for the right vector is created with
> DMCreateGlobalVector.

Do you have a non-square matrix?  If so, is the left vector associated
with a different DM?

> Or I might be wrong and there is actually no difference! If so I will
> use DMCreateGlobalVector
> without any problem

If the system is square, DMCreateGlobalVector should be correct.
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