Hi Matt,

Thanks for your tip.
I will take a look at the "MatLoad()" implementation tomorrow and return to you to discuss it further. It sounds like a good strategy.

Regards,
 Frederico.

Dr. Frederico Teixeira
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From: "Matthew Knepley" <knepley@gmail.com>
To: "Pierre Jolivet" <pierre@joliv.et>
Cc: "Frederico Teixeira" <teixeira@zmt.swiss>, "petsc-users" <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 6:26:46 PM
Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Binary format in real vs. complex scalar type configurations

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:03 PM Pierre Jolivet <pierre@joliv.et> wrote:
Hello Frederico,
I’m not sure that’s possible.
Here is what I do, it makes me sick, but mixing precisions/scalar types with PETSc is difficult (crossing my fingers this will be better with future).
In MATLAB (after putting petsc/share/petsc/matlab in the path):
A = PetscBinaryRead('your_binary_mat_with_re+im.dat','complex',true); % scalar-type=complex
PetscBinaryWrite('re.dat',real(A)); % scalar-type=real
PetscBinaryWrite('im.dat',imag(A)); % scalar-type=real

So what you want to happen is that MatLoad() looks at the datatype, sees that it is complex and PetscScalar is real, and returns two matrices with the real and imaginary parts?

The hard part is that the MatLoad interface returns a single matrix. I guess we could have a flag that says what to do with complex numbers (read real, read imaginary, read norm, etc.)
and you could read it twice. Would that work?

  Thanks,

     Matt
 
Thanks,
Pierre

On 11 May 2021, at 3:30 PM, Frederico Teixeira <teixeira@zmt.swiss> wrote:

Dear fellows,

I hope this message finds you safe and well.

I have a complex-valued matrix and its real/imaginary components in binary format. They were extracted from a solver that only works with "scalar-type=complex" configuration.
I am getting weird results when I load them into a small test program that's configured with "scalar-type=real", but I believe this is expected.
At the end of the day, I would like to have both real and imaginary components as real-valued matrices.
Is it possible to do it? I want to test preconditioners that are tailored for this sort of problem.

Regards,
 Frederico.




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