"Jose E. Roman" <[email protected]> writes:

>> El 24 ago 2017, a las 22:51, Greg Meyer <[email protected]> escribió:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have written a shell matrix for non-standard vectors (CUDA to be specific) 
>> that works great. MatMult and MatNorm perform as they should. However, when 
>> I try to use it in a SLEPc algorithm, it breaks because MatCreateVecs yields 
>> standard vectors even if I set "-vec_type cuda". Looking through the source 
>> etc. it seems that MatShellSetOperation can't be used to implement a new 
>> MatCreateVecs function (MATOP_CREATEVECS does not exist). Is there a way to 
>> change the type of vector that comes from MatCreateVecs for shell matrices?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Greg
>
> It is MATOP_GET_VECS. If you implement this operation, most SLEPc 
> functionality should work with CUDA.
>
> PETSc developers: shouldn't MATOP_GET_VECS be renamed to MATOP_CREATE_VECS ?

Yes, in their eagerness to rename interfaces, people often forget to
complete all parts of the job.  The MATOP interface has shown itself to
be high maintenance.

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