Currently MATSCALAPACK does not support MatCreateSubMatrix(). I guess it would 
not be difficult to implement.

Jose


> El 27 oct 2023, a las 21:53, Damyn Chipman <[email protected]> 
> escribió:
> 
> Yeah, I’ll make an issue and use a modified version of this test routine.
> 
> Does anything change if I will be using MATSCALAPACK matrices instead of the 
> built in MATDENSE? Like I said, I will be computing Schur complements and 
> need to use a parallel and dense matrix format.
> 
> -Damyn
> 
>> On Oct 26, 2023, at 10:01 AM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 11:55 PM Damyn Chipman 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Great thanks, that seemed to work well. This is something my algorithm will 
>> do fairly often (“elevating” a node’s communicator to a communicator that 
>> includes siblings). The matrices formed are dense but low rank. With 
>> MatCreateSubMatrix, it appears I do a lot of copying from one Mat to 
>> another. Is there a way to do it with array copying or pointer movement 
>> instead of copying entries?
>> 
>> We could make a fast path for dense that avoids MatSetValues(). Can you make 
>> an issue for this? The number one thing that would make this faster is to 
>> contribute a small test. Then we could run it continually when putting in 
>> the fast path to make sure we are preserving correctness.
>> 
>>   Thanks,
>> 
>>     Matt
>>  
>> -Damyn
>> 
>>> On Oct 24, 2023, at 9:51 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can place it in a parallel Mat (that has rows or columns on only one 
>>> rank or a subset of ranks) and then MatCreateSubMatrix with all new 
>>> rows/columns on a different rank or subset of ranks.
>>> 
>>> That said, you usually have a function that assembles the matrix and you 
>>> can just call that on the new communicator.
>>> 
>>> Damyn Chipman <[email protected]> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Hi PETSc developers,
>>>> 
>>>> In short, my question is this: Does PETSc provide a way to move or copy an 
>>>> object (say a Mat) from one communicator to another?
>>>> 
>>>> The more detailed scenario is this: I’m working on a linear algebra solver 
>>>> on quadtree meshes (i.e., p4est). I use communicator subsets in order to 
>>>> facilitate communication between siblings or nearby neighbors. When 
>>>> performing linear algebra across siblings (a group of 4), I need to copy a 
>>>> node’s data (i.e., a Mat object) from a sibling’s communicator to the 
>>>> communicator that includes the four siblings. From what I can tell, I can 
>>>> only copy a PETSc object onto the same communicator.
>>>> 
>>>> My current approach will be to copy the raw data from the Mat on one 
>>>> communicator to a new Mat on the new communicator, but I wanted to see if 
>>>> there is a more “elegant” approach within PETSc.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> 
>>>> Damyn Chipman
>>>> Boise State University
>>>> PhD Candidate
>>>> Computational Sciences and Engineering
>>>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments 
>> is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments 
>> lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>> 
>> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
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