On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 10:15 PM Adrian Croucher <a.crouc...@auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
> hi, I am testing my (Fortran) code on PETSc 3.22 and have got it to
> build. However I am getting some unusual new behaviour when I write an
> IS to an HDF5 file using ISView().
>
> The attached minimal example shows the issue. It creates a simple
> 10-element IS and writes it to HDF5. With previous versions of PETSc
> this would give me a 10x1 dataset containing the values 0 - 9, as expected.
>
> When I run it with PETSc 3.22 (in serial), I again get the expected
> values written on stdout, so it looks like the IS itself is correct. But
> in the HDF5 file I get a 1x3 dataset containing the values (10,1,0).
>
> Has something changed here?
>
Yes. We now compress IS data sets by default. You can turn it off using
-is_view_compress 0. I am not sure
what the best way to manage this is, but it makes a huge difference in file
size for checkpointing.
Thanks,
Matt
> - Adrian
>
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> Dr Adrian Croucher
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> Department of Engineering Science
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