[petsc-users] Kronecker Product

[Barry Smith]

   Do you need the explicit sparse representation of the Kronecker product? Or do you want to apply it as an operator or solve systems with it? If the latter you can use https://petsc.org/release/docs/manualpages/Mat/MatCreateKAIJ/#matcreatekaij

  Barry



> On Jan 30, 2023, at 12:53 PM, Guglielmo, Tyler Hardy via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I am wondering if there is any functionality for taking Kronecker products of large sparse matrices that are parallel?  MatSeqAIJKron is as close as I have found, but it seems like this does not work for parallel matrices.  Any ideas here? 
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> An option could be to make A and B sequential, compute the Kronecker product, C, then scatter C into a parallel matrix?  This seems like a horribly inefficient procedure.  I’m still fairly new to petsc, so thanks for patience :)!
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> Best,
> Tyler 
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