On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Mark F. Adams wrote:

> 
> On Apr 24, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Hong Zhang wrote:
> 
>> Mark :
>> Shall C=PtAP inherit the block size of A?
>> Currently, MatPtAP() is only implemented with aij bs=1.
> 
> No, as I said, algebraically it should inherit the column block size of P, 
> but that is not available.

  What is the column block size of P and how do you know what it is?

   Barry

> 
> Perhaps PtAP should take a parameter for the block size ...
> 
> Mark
> 
>> Hong
>> 
>> On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > On Apr 24, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Mark F. Adams wrote:
>> >
>> >> Now I'm getting this error with code like this:
>> >>
>> >>     ierr = MatGetSubMatrix( Cmat, new_eq_indices, new_eq_indices, 
>> >> MAT_INITIAL_MATRIX, &mat );
>> >>     CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> >>     ierr = MatSetBlockSize( mat, cbs );      CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> >>
>> >> and like this:
>> >>
>> >> ierr = MatPtAP( Amat_fine, Pold, MAT_INITIAL_MATRIX, 2.0, &Cmat ); 
>> >> CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> >> ierr = MatSetBlockSize( Cmat, cbs );      CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> >
>> >   Right you cannot do this. The matrix already exists so you cannot now 
>> > set its size.
>> >
>> >   Does Cmat have a block size of cbs
>> >
>> >    What about Amat?   By default these routines should create the new 
>> > matrix with the correct blocksize.
>> >
>> >    The harder part is if the blocksize of mat would be different than Cmat?
>> >
>> 
>> It seems like MatGetSubMatrix should just inherit the block size but PtAP is 
>> harder.  The block size of the Cmat is the column block size of P.  But I 
>> can not set a column block size (!= row block size) so I don't set block 
>> size on P at all.  Here cbs is this column block size of P, or what it 
>> should be.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> >   Barry
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>> >>
>> >> On Apr 23, 2012, at 9:09 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes, look, for example how ex32 is handled at the bottom of the makefile.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks
>> >>>
>> >>> Barry
>> >>>
>> >>> On Apr 23, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Mark F. Adams wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Apr 23, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Barry Smith wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> It was changed a while ago that MatSetBlockSize() couldn't be set 
>> >>>>> after the matrix was full instantiated. I guess that example did not 
>> >>>>> get fixed because it is not listed in the makefile to run in the 
>> >>>>> makeall.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> May I add it?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I have fixed the example to call MatSetBlockSize() at a safe point.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Barry
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Mark F. Adams wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> ex55.c in ksp is failing with:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message 
>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------
>> >>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Arguments are incompatible!
>> >>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Cannot change block size 1 to 2!
>> >>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: 
>> >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> on this line 57 of ex55.c:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> ierr = MatSetBlockSize(Amat,2);      CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Any idea what happened here?
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Mark
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
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