PetscRandomGetValue(), PetscRandomGetValueReal(), PetscRandomGetValueImaginary()
There is a lack of symmetry in the meaning of PetscRandomGetValueReal() and PetscRandomGetValueImaginary(). The real returns a PetscReal with a random value in it. The imaginary returns a complex number with zero real part and some imaginary part. I have changed PetscRandomSetInterval() to allow the real or imaginary part of the interval to be zero. Thus one can get pure real complex numbers by setting the complex part of low to high and get pure imaginary complex numbers by setting the real part of low to high. Then we can eliminate PetscRandomGetValueImaginary(). I dislike it (since it is ugly, has no real equivalent version (for example to get a random number that is zero in the imaginary part I need to call PetscRandomGetValueReal() and then stick that real value into a complex number.)) What do you think? Barry
PetscRandomGetValue(), PetscRandomGetValueReal(), PetscRandomGetValueImaginary()
I am fine with that as long as the doc is clear. Matt On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov wrote: There is a lack of symmetry in the meaning of PetscRandomGetValueReal() and PetscRandomGetValueImaginary(). The real returns a PetscReal with a random value in it. The imaginary returns a complex number with zero real part and some imaginary part. I have changed PetscRandomSetInterval() to allow the real or imaginary part of the interval to be zero. Thus one can get pure real complex numbers by setting the complex part of low to high and get pure imaginary complex numbers by setting the real part of low to high. Then we can eliminate PetscRandomGetValueImaginary(). I dislike it (since it is ugly, has no real equivalent version (for example to get a random number that is zero in the imaginary part I need to call PetscRandomGetValueReal() and then stick that real value into a complex number.)) What do you think? Barry -- 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 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20091026/9865e8a7/attachment.html
ideas needed on organizing output of PETSc nightly tests
The raw output PETSc's nightly test runs are now finally available online at, see the bottom of http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/developers/index.html for access location. What we need is ideas (and python scripts that implement these ideas) for displaying the information in a useful way so that we keep track of them and find (and fix) problems when they come up. (The current crude scripts are in bin/maint). Anybody with ideas please step forward, thanks, Barry
ideas needed on organizing output of PETSc nightly tests
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov wrote: ? The raw output PETSc's nightly test runs are now finally available online at, see the bottom of http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/developers/index.html?for access location. ? What we need is ideas (and python scripts that implement these ideas) for displaying the information in a useful way so that we keep track of them and find (and fix) problems when they come up. (The current crude scripts are in bin/maint). ? Anybody with ideas please step forward, thanks, ? Barry I've always liked the buildbot project for these things: http://buildbot.net/trac Not having time right now to read through the runner code, I can't tell whether it would be easier to set up their runners and webpages or to just mimic the web interface for clicking through the most recent tests. For a working example you can see the sympy's version: http://buildbot.sympy.org/grid -- Andy
