[petsc-users] question about VecScatter from one global vector to another

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Randall Mackie <rlmackie862 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am trying to do a VecScatter of a subset of elements from a global
> vector on one DMDA to a global vector on a different DMDA (different sized
> DMDAs).
>
> I thought what made sense was to create a parallel IS using the local to
> global mapping obtained from the two DMDAs so that the local portion of
> each IS contained only the values on that processor.
>
> This works fine as long as the local size of the two IS’s are the same.
>
> But, say I have a situation like this:
>
> DMDA 1:
>   proc 1: 1 value to scatter
>   proc 2: 7 values to scatter
>
>
> DMDA 2:
>   proc 1: 4 values to get
>   proc 2: 4 values to get
>
> This doesn’t work because VecScatterCreate says the local size of the IS’s
> must be the same.
>
> Is the only way to set up this VecScatter to create a sequential IS on
> each processor of length 8 and duplicate the values?
>

The two inputs are

  index of input vector --> input of output vector

and you can have as many entries of this map on any process as you want.
Clearly, you
need the same number of entires in each IS to make this map meaningful.
Does that make
sense?

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Thanks,
>
> Randy M.
>
>


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