Playa::GhostImporter< Scalar > Class Template Reference

#include <PlayaGhostImporter.hpp>

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

virtual ~GhostImporter ()
virtual void importView (const Vector< Scalar > &x, RCP< GhostView< Scalar > > &ghostView) const =0

Detailed Description

template<class Scalar>
class Playa::GhostImporter< Scalar >

In many applications it is necessary to view some subset of off-processor, or "ghost", elements of a vector. In matrix-vector multiplications, access to off-processor elements is assumed to be handled internally by the apply() method of LinearOp subtypes, so the Playa Vector type does not need explicit accessors for ghost elements. However, in application interfaces such as finite element assembly engines, read-only access to ghost elements is sometimes required. The abstract classes GhostImporter and GhostView define flexible interfaces through which a set of required ghosts can be defined, ghost values can be imported, and element values can be accessed through global indices.

Class GhostImporter is used to specify the set of ghost elements that must be imported to this processor, and then to carry out the import. It will often be the case that we do many imports with the same set of ghost indices; for example, in a nonlinear problem the import of the same set of ghost indices will be repeated at each function evaluation. Therefore, it makes sense to do the definition of the ghost index set and the import as distinct methods. The definition of the ghost index set should be done in the constructors of GhostImporter subclasses.

Definition at line 41 of file PlayaGhostImporter.hpp.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

template<class Scalar>
virtual Playa::GhostImporter< Scalar >::~GhostImporter (  )  [inline, virtual]

virtual dtor

Definition at line 45 of file PlayaGhostImporter.hpp.

Member Function Documentation

template<class Scalar>
virtual void Playa::GhostImporter< Scalar >::importView ( const Vector< Scalar > &  x,
RCP< GhostView< Scalar > > &  ghostView 
) const [pure virtual]

Import the ghost elements of the given vector as specified during construction of this object.

Implemented in Playa::EpetraGhostImporter, and Playa::SerialGhostImporter.

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