Hi Florian,
this is for an extruded mesh and I’m always working in a horizontal DG space, so that the assembled matrix has a block-structure (i.e. there are no couplings between different columns). In each block (i.e. column) the matrix is banded. Mathematically, I can invert the matrix in each column independently without assembling the global matrix. I need this for my multigrid smoother. In each column I create a dat which stores the banded matrix and assemble it locally by hand. I then write my own kernels (looping over the 2d grid) to, for example, apply the local banded matrix or do a LU decomposition and solve with LAPACK.
So in summary, I do not use the PyOP2 Mat() class, but represent my matrices by Functions (I create a DG0 space of size bandwidth*n on the base mesh).
Thanks,
Eike
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On 23/11/14 12:11, Eike Mueller wrote:Dear firedrakers,
can I somehow check whether a dat/function has been written to since I last performed a given operation on it?
I have a banded matrix A stored in each cell on mesh, and whenever I solve the equation A.x = b (separately in each column, of course) I want to do this in two steps:
(1) calculate the LU decomposition (lapack dgbtrf)
(2) solve based on that LU decomposition (lapack dgbtrs)
I have to do a lot of solves, so for efficiency I want to only do (1) if my matrix A has changed. So when I do a solve, I check if a flag lu_decomp is True (and this flag is set to False upon matrix creation). If it is, then I go straight to (2), otherwise I do (1) first. But I need to make sure that whenever my banded matrix has been written to lu_decomp is set back to False.
I'm not exactly sure I understand what you're trying to do. Are thosematrices represented by firedrake.Matrix/pyop2.Mat? If so, they're onlyever written to when you call assemble on the Matrix object. You cancheck the assembled property to see whether the Matrix is assembled and_needs_reassembly to check whether it needs to be reassembled.If you're interested whether or not PETSc has written to the matrixduring solve I'm not sure. I don't think an assembled matrix is writtento at all, but maybe Lawrence can clarify.Hope this helps,FlorianThanks,
Eike
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