2.2.1 Template creation

  Initializing the template is accomplished with a call to the routine

Creation of the template uses the PLAPACK base communicator passed to PLA_Init, a   distribution blocking size for the inducing vector, nb, and an indication of whether indexing starts at 0 or 1 , given in zero_or_one. The result of this operation is an     object, template, which (in our implementation) is a pointer   (handle) to a data structure that encodes the information about the mapping of vectors and matrices to the node mesh.

 

Note: In the future, we expect to accommodate much more general distributions than achieved by this simple template creation call.