[petsc-users] Vector layout in PetscBinaryRead.m

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 5:44 PM zakaryah via petsc-users <
petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I'm using PETSc to solve some equations, outputting the results using
> PetscViewerBinaryOpen and VecView, then loading the vector files into
> Matlab using PetscBinaryRead.m.  The vectors are global vectors created
> from a 3D DMDA.  Is there a way to extract the layout from the binary file,
> so that I can visualize the vectors on a 3D grid?
>

No, we do not preserve that information in the PETSc binary format. We have
richer output that does, like HDF5.

  Thanks,

    Matt

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