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Epetra_Export Class Reference

Epetra_Export: This class builds an export object for efficient exporting of off-processor elements. More...

#include <Epetra_Export.h>

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Public Member Functions

 Epetra_Export (const Epetra_BlockMap &SourceMap, const Epetra_BlockMap &TargetMap)
 Constructs a Epetra_Export object from the source and target maps. More...
 
 Epetra_Export (const Epetra_Export &Exporter)
 Epetra_Export copy constructor.
 
 Epetra_Export (const Epetra_Import &Exporter)
 Epetra_Export pseudo-copy constructor. Creates an Epetra_Export in the reverse direction of the Epetra_Import argument.
 
virtual ~Epetra_Export (void)
 Epetra_Export destructor.
 
int NumSameIDs () const
 Returns the number of elements that are identical between the source and target maps, up to the first different ID.
 
int NumPermuteIDs () const
 Returns the number of elements that are local to the calling processor, but not part of the first NumSameIDs() elements.
 
int * PermuteFromLIDs () const
 List of elements in the source map that are permuted.
 
int * PermuteToLIDs () const
 List of elements in the target map that are permuted.
 
int NumRemoteIDs () const
 Returns the number of elements that are not on the calling processor.
 
int * RemoteLIDs () const
 List of elements in the target map that are coming from other processors.
 
int NumExportIDs () const
 Returns the number of elements that must be sent by the calling processor to other processors.
 
int * ExportLIDs () const
 List of elements that will be sent to other processors.
 
int * ExportPIDs () const
 List of processors to which elements will be sent, ExportLIDs() [i] will be sent to processor ExportPIDs() [i].
 
int NumSend () const
 Total number of elements to be sent.
 
int NumRecv () const
 Total number of elements to be received.
 
const Epetra_BlockMapSourceMap () const
 Returns the SourceMap used to construct this exporter.
 
const Epetra_BlockMapTargetMap () const
 Returns the TargetMap used to construct this exporter.
 
Epetra_DistributorDistributor () const
 
const Epetra_DistributorDistributorPtr () const
 
Print object to an output stream
virtual void Print (std::ostream &os) const
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from Epetra_Object
 Epetra_Object (int TracebackModeIn=-1, bool set_label=true)
 Epetra_Object Constructor. More...
 
 Epetra_Object (const char *const Label, int TracebackModeIn=-1)
 Epetra_Object Constructor. More...
 
 Epetra_Object (const Epetra_Object &Object)
 Epetra_Object Copy Constructor. More...
 
virtual ~Epetra_Object ()
 Epetra_Object Destructor. More...
 
virtual int ReportError (const std::string Message, int ErrorCode) const
 Error reporting method.
 
virtual void SetLabel (const char *const Label)
 Epetra_Object Label definition using char *. More...
 
virtual const char * Label () const
 Epetra_Object Label access funtion. More...
 

Friends

class Epetra_Import
 
class Epetra_BlockMap
 

Additional Inherited Members

- Static Public Member Functions inherited from Epetra_Object
static void SetTracebackMode (int TracebackModeValue)
 Set the value of the Epetra_Object error traceback report mode. More...
 
static int GetTracebackMode ()
 Get the value of the Epetra_Object error report mode.
 
static std::ostream & GetTracebackStream ()
 Get the output stream for error reporting.
 
- Static Public Attributes inherited from Epetra_Object
static int TracebackMode
 
- Protected Member Functions inherited from Epetra_Object
std::string toString (const int &x) const
 
std::string toString (const long long &x) const
 
std::string toString (const double &x) const
 

Detailed Description

Epetra_Export: This class builds an export object for efficient exporting of off-processor elements.

Epetra_Export is used to construct a communication plan that can be called repeatedly by computational classes such the Epetra matrix, vector and multivector classes to efficiently send data to a target processor.

This class currently has one constructor, taking two Epetra_Map or Epetra_BlockMap objects. The first map specifies the global IDs that are owned by the calling processor. The second map specifies the global IDs of elements that we want to export to later.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Epetra_Export::Epetra_Export ( const Epetra_BlockMap SourceMap,
const Epetra_BlockMap TargetMap 
)

Constructs a Epetra_Export object from the source and target maps.

  This constructor builds an Epetra_Export object by comparing the GID lists of the source and
  target maps.
  \param SourceMap (In) Map containing the GIDs from which data should be exported from each processor to
         the target map whenever an export operation is performed using this exporter.
  \param  TargetMap (In) Map containing the GIDs that should be used for exporting data.

  \warning Note that the TargetMap \e must have GIDs uniquely owned, each GID of the target map can occur only once.

Builds an export object that will transfer objects built with SourceMap to objects built with TargetMap.

A Epetra_Export object categorizes the elements of the target map into three sets as follows:
<ol>
<li> All elements in the target map that have the same GID as the corresponding element of the source map,
     starting with the first
     element in the target map, going up to the first element that is different from the source map.  The number of
 these IDs is returned by NumSameIDs().
<li> All elements that are local to the processor, but are not part of the first set of elements.  These elements
     have GIDs that are owned by the calling processor, but at least the first element of this list is permuted.
 Even if subsequent elements are not permuted, they are included in this list.  The number of permuted elements
 is returned by NumPermutedIDs().  The list of elements (local IDs) in the source map that are permuted can be
 found in the list PermuteFromLIDs().  The list of elements (local IDs) in the target map that are the new locations
 of the source elements can be found in the list PermuteToLIDs().
<li> All remaining elements of the target map correspond to global IDs that are owned by remote processors.  The number
     of these elements is returned by NumRemoteIDs() and the list of these is returned by RemoteLIDs().
</ol>

Given the above information, the Epetra_Export constructor builds a list of elements that must be communicated to other processors as a result of export requests. The number of exported elements (where multiple sends of the same element to different processors is counted) is returned by NumExportIDs(). The local IDs to be sent are returned by the list ExportLIDs(). The processors to which each of the elements will be sent in returned in a list of the same length by ExportPIDs().

The total number of elements that will be sent by the calling processor is returned by NumSend(). The total number of elements that will be received is returned by NumRecv().

The following example illustrates the basic concepts.

Assume we have 3 processors and 9 global elements with each processor owning 3 elements as follows

 PE 0 Elements |  PE 1 Elements  |  PE 2 Elements
    0  1  2          3  4  5           6  7  8

The above layout essentially defines the target map argument of the export object.

This could correspond to a 9-entry forcing vector with the first three entries on PE 0, and so on. Suppose that the entries of this forcing vector are computed by integrating over linear "hat" functions:

^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^
 \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/
 /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8

In this case, PE 0 will make contributions to entries 0 through 3, PE 1 will make contributions to entries 2 through 6 and PE 2 will make contributions to entries 5 through 8. A convenient way to compute these contributions is to create a forcing vector with replicated entries for the shared contributions. Specifically the following SourceMap works for this scenario:

    PE 0 Elements    |  PE 1 Elements    |  PE 2 Elements
     0  1  2  3         2  3  4  5  6        5  6  7  8

A vector constructed using this SourceMap can be used to collect each processor's contributions to the forcing vector. Note that the ordering of the elements on each processor is not unique, but has been chosen for illustration.

With these two maps passed into the Epetra_Export constructor, we get the following attribute definitions:

On PE 0:

NumSameIDs      = 3

NumPermuteIDs   = 0
PermuteToLIDs   = 0
PermuteFromLIDs = 0

NumRemoteIDs    = 1
RemoteLIDs      = [2]

NumExportIDs    = 1
ExportLIDs      = [3]
ExportPIDs      = [1]

NumSend         = 1
NumRecv         = 1

On PE 1:

NumSameIDs      = 0

NumPermuteIDs   = 3
PermuteToLIDs   = [0, 1, 2]
PermuteFromLIDs = [1, 2, 3]

NumRemoteIDs    = 2
RemoteLIDs      = [0, 2]

NumExportIDs    = 2
ExportLIDs      = [0, 4]
ExportPIDs      = [0, 2]

NumSend         = 2
NumRecv         = 2

On PE 2:

NumSameIDs      = 0

NumPermuteIDs   = 3
PermuteToLIDs   = [0, 1, 2]
PermuteFromLIDs = [1, 2, 3]

NumRemoteIDs    = 1
RemoteLIDs      = [0]

NumExportIDs    = 1
ExportLIDs      = [0]
ExportPIDs      = [1]

NumSend         = 1
NumRecv         = 1

Using Epetra_Export Objects

Once a Epetra_Export object has been constructed, it can be used by any of the Epetra classes that support distributed global objects, namely Epetra_Vector, Epetra_MultiVector, Epetra_CrsGraph, Epetra_CrsMatrix and Epetra_VbrMatrix. All of these classes have Export and Export methods that will fill new objects whose distribution is described by the target map, taking elements from the source object whose distribution is described by the source map. Details of usage for each class is given in the appropriate class documentation.

In the above example, if x_integrate is constructed using the SourceMap and then filled with local contributions, and x_force is constructed using the target map, the following operation will fill x_force with the combined results of x_integrate:

x_force.Export(x_integrate, exporter, Add);

The third argument above tells the export operation to add results that come from multiple processors for the same GID.

Epetra_Export objects can also be used by Import operations to perform the reverse operation. For example, if x_force in the above example had boundary conditions that should be sent to processors that share a boundary element, the following operation would send replicated values to x_integrate:

x_integrate.Import(x_force, exporter, Insert);

At the end of this operation, x_integrate would have replicated values from x_force of entries 2 and 3 on PEs 0 and 1, and entries 5 and 6 on PEs 1 and 2.

Member Function Documentation

virtual void Epetra_Export::Print ( std::ostream &  os) const
virtual

Print object to an output stream Print method

Reimplemented from Epetra_Object.


The documentation for this class was generated from the following file: