petsc-3.3-p7 2013-05-11

PetscViewerGetSingleton

 Creates a new PetscViewer (same type as the old) that lives on a single processor (with MPI_comm PETSC_COMM_SELF)

Synopsis

#include "petscviewer.h" 
PetscErrorCode  PetscViewerGetSingleton(PetscViewer viewer,PetscViewer *outviewer)
Collective on PetscViewer

Input Parameter

viewer -the PetscViewer to be duplicated

Output Parameter

outviewer -new PetscViewer

Notes: Call PetscViewerRestoreSingleton() to return this PetscViewer, NOT PetscViewerDestroy()

This is most commonly used to view a sequential object that is part of a parallel object. For example block Jacobi PC view could use this to obtain a PetscViewer that is used with the sequential KSP on one block of the preconditioner.

See Also

PetscViewerSocketOpen(), PetscViewerASCIIOpen(), PetscViewerDrawOpen(), PetscViewerRestoreSingleton()

Level:advanced
Location:src/sys/viewer/interface/dupl.c
Index of all Viewer routines
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