VecLoad#
Loads a vector that has been stored in binary or HDF5 format with VecView()
.
Synopsis#
#include "petscvec.h"
PetscErrorCode VecLoad(Vec vec, PetscViewer viewer)
Collective
Input Parameters#
vec - the newly loaded vector, this needs to have been created with
VecCreate()
or some related function before the call toVecLoad()
.viewer - binary file viewer, obtained from
PetscViewerBinaryOpen()
or HDF5 file viewer, obtained fromPetscViewerHDF5Open()
Notes#
Defaults to the standard VECSEQ
or VECMPI
, if you want some other type of Vec
call VecSetFromOptions()
before calling this.
The input file must contain the full global vector, as
written by the routine VecView()
.
If the type or size of vec
is not set before a call to VecLoad()
, PETSc
sets the type and the local and global sizes based on the vector it is reading in. If type and/or
sizes are already set, then the same are used.
If using the binary viewer and the blocksize of the vector is greater than one then you must provide a unique prefix to
the vector with PetscObjectSetOptionsPrefix
((PetscObject
)vec,”uniqueprefix”); BEFORE calling VecView()
on the
vector to be stored and then set that same unique prefix on the vector that you pass to VecLoad(). The blocksize
information is stored in an ASCII file with the same name as the binary file plus a “.info” appended to the
filename. If you copy the binary file, make sure you copy the associated .info file with it.
If using HDF5, you must assign the Vec
the same name as was used in the Vec
that was stored in the file using PetscObjectSetName(). Otherwise you will get the error message: "Cannot H5DOpen2() with
Vec` name NAMEOFOBJECT”.
If the HDF5 file contains a two dimensional array the first dimension is treated as the block size in loading the vector. Hence, for example, using MATLAB notation h5create(‘vector.dat’,’/Test_Vec’,[27 1]); will load a vector of size 27 and block size 27 thus resulting in all 27 entries being on the first process of vectors communicator and the rest of the processes having zero entries
Notes for advanced users when using the binary viewer#
Most users should not need to know the details of the binary storage
format, since VecLoad()
and VecView()
completely hide these details.
But for anyone who’s interested, the standard binary vector storage
format is
PetscInt VEC_FILE_CLASSID
PetscInt number of rows
PetscScalar *values of all entries
In addition, PETSc automatically uses byte swapping to work on all machines; the files are written ALWAYS using big-endian ordering. On small-endian machines the numbers are converted to the small-endian format when they are read in from the file. See PetscBinaryRead() and PetscBinaryWrite() to see how this may be done.
See Also#
Vectors and Parallel Data, Vec
, PetscViewerBinaryOpen()
, VecView()
, MatLoad()
Level#
intermediate
Location#
Examples#
src/vec/vec/tutorials/ex5.c
src/dm/impls/plex/tutorials/ex15.c
src/dm/impls/plex/tutorials/ex16.c
src/dm/tutorials/ex9.c
src/vec/vec/tutorials/ex5f.F90
src/dm/tutorials/ex10.c
src/ts/tutorials/ex11_sa.c
src/dm/tutorials/ex15.c
Implementations#
VecLoad_pforest() in src/dm/impls/forest/p4est/pforest.h
VecLoad_Plex() in src/dm/impls/plex/plex.c
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