I believe figured out how to get it to work, though it seems that in order to skip two integers I must use PETSC_BINARY_INT_SIZE*4; in other words, an integer appears to take twice the number of bytes given by PETSC_BINARY_INT_SIZE. Not sure what could be causing this. Also, I had somehow led myself to believe that the output parameter of the seek routine could be set to NULL. Writing output to the null pointer didn't produce the desired effects, much to the astonishment of no one whatsoever. -Peder ________________________________ Fra: Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> Sendt: 4. oktober 2021 18:05:57 Til: Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen Cc: Barry Smith; [email protected] Emne: Re: [petsc-users] Skipping data when reading from binary file On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 11:27 AM Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen via petsc-users <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: In theory it should be relatively simple to write up a routine to skip a given number of objects. I'm not getting PetscBinarySeek() to work even on a header-less array of integers, however. I suppose that
PetscBinarySeek(fd, PETSC_BINARY_INT_SIZE*array_size, PETSC_BINARY_SEEK_CUR, NULL);
The VecView code is here: https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/blob/main/src/vec/vec/utils/vecio.c#L32 you can see that it writes 2 integers and then the scalar data. So, first you skip the 2 integers, and then you skip the array_size scalars (so you want PETSC_BINARY_SCALAR_SIZE). Thanks, Matt ought to do the trick, but that does not seem to be the case. Am I somehow using this routine incorrectly? Peder ________________________________ Fra: Barry Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sendt: 4. oktober 2021 16:38:10 Til: Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Emne: Re: [petsc-users] Skipping data when reading from binary file To minimize code changes you could add a PETSc viewer format that caused skipping reading in an object. Then each object load would need a skip-read method that mimicked the reading but actually just skipped over the parts of the data of the object (using the correct sizes). For vectors this is trivial since you just skip the single known array. For sparse matrices it is not difficult but you will need to read in the number of nonzeros so you know how much to skip etc. Barry On Oct 4, 2021, at 9:58 AM, Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen via petsc-users <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thank you for your quick reply. I've had to change away from HDF5 to Binary format at an earlier stage in my work due to the former not working well with what I needed, so I would prefer to stick with the binary format. I had a quick view at the code for some of the Viewer-routines, but I'm not well versed in gleaning information about header sizes from that. Hints about what I'm looking for there would be appreciated. Best regards Peder ________________________________ Fra: Matthew Knepley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sendt: 4. oktober 2021 15:37:08 Til: Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Emne: Re: [petsc-users] Skipping data when reading from binary file On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 9:26 AM Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen via petsc-users <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello I have a binary file in which a mix of different objects is stored (Vecs, Mats, PetscInts). I can read each element just fine using VecLoad, MatLoad, and PetscIntView, provided they're read in the order in which they were put in the binary. What I would like to do is to skip the reading of any unneeded element, instead proceeding directly to the next one. I tried using PetscBinarySeek() for this, as shown in the attached code. This produces segmentation faults, suggesting that the file pointer isn't going where I want it to. There is header information you also have to skip for each object. We can go over the sizes for that (it is best just to look at the code), but that is fragile. A more robust way to achieve this random access is to use HDF5 and name the objects. Thanks, Matt Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong here? Best regards, Peder [http://www.dtu.dk/-/media/DTU_Generelt/Andet/mail-signature-logo.png] Peder Jørgensgaard Olesen PhD student Department of Mechanical Engineering [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Koppels Allé Building 403, room 105 2800 Kgs. Lyngby www.dtu.dk/english<https://www.dtu.dk/english> -- 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 https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/<http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/> -- 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 https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/<http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>