PSLACP2(l)

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✨ PSLACP2 — bestie edition 💅

okay so. welcome to PSLACP2, a LAPACK auxiliary routine (yes the (l) at the end is the manual section, she's fancy like that). lowercase-l gang rise up 🫶

🎀 NAME 🎀

PSLACP2 — copies all or part of a distributed matrix A to another distributed matrix B. that's it. that's the whole job. she does one thing and she does it well, periodt.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

SUBROUTINE PSLACP2( UPLO, M, N, A, IA, JA, DESCA, B, IB, JB, DESCB )

    CHARACTER       UPLO

    INTEGER         IA, IB, JA, JB, M, N

    INTEGER         DESCA( * ), DESCB( * )

    REAL            A( * ), B( * )

💖 PURPOSE 💖

so basically, PSLACP2 copies all or part of a distributed matrix A to another distributed matrix B. and the tea here is that no communication is performed — she's not out here sending messages across the grid, she's a local girlie. PSLACP2 performs a local copy sub( A ) := sub( B ), where sub( A ) denotes A(IA:IA+M-1,JA:JA+N-1) and sub( B ) denotes B(IB:IB+M-1,JB:JB+N-1).

PSLACP2 requires that only dimension of the matrix operands is distributed. 🦋

📓 Notes 📓

every global data object is described by an associated description vector. this vector stores the info you need to establish the mapping between an object element and its corresponding process and memory location. iconic behaviour, honestly.

let A be a generic term for any 2D block cyclicly distributed array. such a global array has an associated description vector DESCA. in the following comments, the character _ should be read as "of the global array". 💫

here's the whole notation lineup, no gatekeeping:

  • DTYPE_A (global) — stored in DESCA( DTYPE_ ) — the descriptor type. in this case, DTYPE_A = 1.
  • CTXT_A (global) — stored in DESCA( CTXT_ ) — the BLACS context handle, indicating the BLACS process grid A is distributed over. the context itself is global, but the handle (the integer value) may vary. sneaky little thing 🙈
  • M_A (global) — stored in DESCA( M_ ) — the number of rows in the global array A.
  • N_A (global) — stored in DESCA( N_ ) — the number of columns in the global array A.
  • MB_A (global) — stored in DESCA( MB_ ) — the blocking factor used to distribute the rows of the array.
  • NB_A (global) — stored in DESCA( NB_ ) — the blocking factor used to distribute the columns of the array.
  • RSRC_A (global) — stored in DESCA( RSRC_ ) — the process row over which the first row of the array A is distributed.
  • CSRC_A (global) — stored in DESCA( CSRC_ ) — the process column over which the first column of the array A is distributed.
  • LLD_A (local) — stored in DESCA( LLD_ ) — the leading dimension of the local array. LLD_A >= MAX(1,LOCr(M_A)).

let K be the number of rows or columns of a distributed matrix, and assume that its process grid has dimension p x q.

LOCr( K ) denotes the number of elements of K that a process would receive if K were distributed over the p processes of its process column. similarly, LOCc( K ) denotes the number of elements of K that a process would receive if K were distributed over the q processes of its process row.

the values of LOCr() and LOCc() may be determined via a call to the ScaLAPACK tool function, NUMROC:

LOCr( M ) = NUMROC( M, MB_A, MYROW, RSRC_A, NPROW ),
LOCc( N ) = NUMROC( N, NB_A, MYCOL, CSRC_A, NPCOL ).

an upper bound for these quantities may be computed by:

LOCr( M ) <= ceil( ceil(M/MB_A)/NPROW )*MB_A
LOCc( N ) <= ceil( ceil(N/NB_A)/NPCOL )*NB_A

👑 ARGUMENTS 👑

okay bestie, this is the part where you actually read the fine print. every single one, no skimming. 💜

  • UPLO — (global input) CHARACTER. specifies the part of the distributed matrix sub( A ) to be copied:
    • = 'U': upper triangular part is copied; the strictly lower triangular part of sub( A ) is not referenced;
    • = 'L': lower triangular part is copied; the strictly upper triangular part of sub( A ) is not referenced;
    • otherwise: all of the matrix sub( A ) is copied.
  • M — (global input) INTEGER. the number of rows to be operated on, i.e. the number of rows of the distributed submatrix sub( A ). M >= 0.
  • N — (global input) INTEGER. the number of columns to be operated on, i.e. the number of columns of the distributed submatrix sub( A ). N >= 0.
  • A — (local input) REAL pointer into the local memory to an array of dimension (LLD_A, LOCc(JA+N-1) ). this array contains the local pieces of the distributed matrix sub( A ) to be copied from.
  • IA — (global input) INTEGER. the row index in the global array A indicating the first row of sub( A ).
  • JA — (global input) INTEGER. the column index in the global array A indicating the first column of sub( A ).
  • DESCA — (global and local input) INTEGER array of dimension DLEN_. the array descriptor for the distributed matrix A.
  • B — (local output) REAL pointer into the local memory to an array of dimension (LLD_B, LOCc(JB+N-1) ). this array contains on exit the local pieces of the distributed matrix sub( B ) set as follows:
    • if UPLO = 'U', B(IB+i-1,JB+j-1) = A(IA+i-1,JA+j-1), 1<=i<=j, 1<=j<=N;
    • if UPLO = 'L', B(IB+i-1,JB+j-1) = A(IA+i-1,JA+j-1), j<=i<=M, 1<=j<=N;
    • otherwise, B(IB+i-1,JB+j-1) = A(IA+i-1,JA+j-1), 1<=i<=M, 1<=j<=N.

she ate and left no crumbs 💅

  • IB — (global input) INTEGER. the row index in the global array B indicating the first row of sub( B ).
  • JB — (global input) INTEGER. the column index in the global array B indicating the first column of sub( B ).
  • DESCB — (global and local input) INTEGER array of dimension DLEN_. the array descriptor for the distributed matrix B.

and that's the whole page, bestie. no cap. go copy your matrices. 🦋✨

this was LAPACK version 1.5, dated 12 May 1997 — yeah she's an icon from the 90s and she's still serving 🌈👑 mwah, love u, bye 💖
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