Hi there, I am trying to build a parallel PETSc sparse matrix by building a local sparsity pattern and subsequently distributing the pattern to all processes so I then have the full sparsity pattern for the PETSc sparse matrix (I read this needs to be done but please correct me if I am wrong). When I try to reinit the PETSc sparse matrix I get a segfault so I am hunting down the problem.
My understanding for “distribute_sparsity_pattern” is it sends local sparsity patterns to all other processes and saves the full global pattern in the dynamic sparsity pattern you passed in. So I figured that after I call this function, my local number of rows should be the global number of rows but the number of rows is the same as before I called this function (i.e. the actual local number of rows) so I think I am not using this function correctly and my PETSc sparse matrix doesn’t have the global dynamic sparsity pattern I think it must have, which results in a segfault. NOTE: The matrix is a square matrix with rows and columns of size “nbas * nchannels” and the rows are divided amongst the processes. Here is the code for distributing my locally built sparsity pattern dsp: IndexSet local_owned( nbas * nchannels * nbas * nchannels ); \\ allocate global sized index set local_owned.add_range( LocalStart(), LocalEnd() ); \\ start of local row first column and end of last local row at last column SparsityTools::distribute_sparsity_pattern( dsp, local_owned, comm, local_owned ); Here is the code for initializing my PETSc sparse matrix: std::vector<size_type> local_rows_per_process( num_procs); // allocate a vector of length number of process std::vector<size_type> local_columns_per_process( num_procs, nbas * nchannels); // columns are full length and rows are divided by num_procs for(int i=0; i < num_procs; ++i ) { local_rows_per_process[ i ] = i * local_rows; // Saw this in a test but initially thought this should just all be local_rows for each i } Matrix.reinit( comm, dsp, local_rows_per_process, local_columns_per_process, my_proc); -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/1942C0DC-2A53-4A9C-AFD6-C136192C72DB%40gmail.com.