[petsc-users] Copy MPIAIJ Matrix onto MPISeq Matrices on All Processors

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Ali Berk Kahraman <
aliberkkahraman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank your for the reply.
>
> I have tried it, but could not get it to work. For it to work, I have to
> know at which vector entry the epsilon in the FD approximation is to be
> added. It is an input for my inexpensive function, and I could not find a
> way to pass it in using MFFD context.
>

MFFD has it in the context as current_u. There is no accessor, but we can
easily write one. However, that is not how MFFD works. Here is the idea:

  You give us a function F, your inexpensive function. We get to call F
however we want to call it, and produce the action of the matrix. So for
instance,
  we could do this

    F(x + h u) - F(x)
    ---------------------
             h ||u||

  but we do not have to do that. You should not worry about how we perturb
the function, you just return the value of the function when we call it.


> I have been trying to get it working with PETSC_COMM_WORLD too with no
> luck. My guess is that my FormRHSFunction becomes a collective function on
> WORLD, so I cannot generate many separate copies each doing its own thing.
> For this reason I am trying to move it to SELF, but I cannot do that if I
> cannot find a way to represent my WORLD matrix input fully on each process.
>

I think things have gotten too confused here for us to help. Lets step back
and simplify. Can you tell us briefly exactly what you want to accomplish?
I will start by
explaining SNES. We are essentially doing Newton's method. This means
calculating a step du, based on an initial solution u, using this equation

  J(u) du = -F(u)

so we need a function to form the residual F, and maybe the Jacobian J but
we can also form it using calls to F.

It sounds like you want to do something inside F, but I cannot figure out
what yet.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> Sorry I am stuck in the same question, but any ideas on how to move a
> matrix from WORLD to SELF, similar to the way it is possible with vectors
> using VecScatter?
>
>
>
> On 19-03-2018 21:08, Smith, Barry F. wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2018, at 12:00 PM, Ali Berk Kahraman <
>>> aliberkkahraman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I have to create my Jacobian numerically using an FD function I have
>>> written, but the problem is that the function evaluation FormRHSFunction
>>> creates PETSC_COMM_WORLD objects in it, and takes 1 PETSC_COMM_WORLD matrix
>>> as an input.  So I cannot work it on parallel (every processor calculating
>>> its own portion of Jacobian), I tried but the machine gets confused.
>>>
>>     Huh. It is fine to have the function work on PETSC_COMM_WORLD, and it
>> can be in parallel.
>>
>>> My initial idea was to create the objects in PETSC_COMM_SELF type within
>>> the RHS function, but the input COMM_WORLD matrix standed where it was. So
>>> my question is, is there a way to get a complete copy of a distributed
>>> matrix on all the processors as seq matrices?
>>>
>>> I cannot use the Petsc's version FD function because the FormRHSFunction
>>> I call to create the Jacobian is slightly different than the original
>>> FormRHSFunction. The original function is too expensive, so I only
>>> calculate the relevant parts of it in the Jacobian function.
>>>
>>     You can do this with MatCreateMFFD() and set your inexpensive
>> function as the function.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Ali Berk Kahraman
>>> M.Sc. Student, Mechanical Engineering
>>> Bogazici Uni. Istanbul, Turkey
>>>
>>>
>


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