[petsc-users] Quick question about ISCreateGeneral

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:42 PM Sajid Ali via petsc-users <
petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi PETSc Developers,
>
> I see that in the examples for ISCreateGeneral, the index sets are created
> by copying values from int arrays (which were created by PetscMalloc1 which
> is not collective).
>
> If I the ISCreateGeneral is called with PETSC_COMM_WORLD and the int
> arrays on each rank are independently created, does the index set created
> concatenate all the int-arrays into one ? If not, what needs to be done to
> get such an index set ?
>

It does not sound scalable, but you can use
https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/IS/ISOnComm.html

   Matt


> PS: For context, I want to write a fftshift convenience function (like
> numpy, MATLAB) but for large distributed vectors. I thought that I could do
> this with VecScatter and two index sets, one shifted and one un-shifted.
>
> Thank You,
> Sajid Ali
> Applied Physics
> Northwestern University
>


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