# MatMPIAIJSetPreallocationCSR

Allocates memory for a sparse parallel matrix in AIJ format (the default parallel PETSc format).

### Synopsis

    PetscErrorCode PETSCMAT_DLLEXPORT MatMPIAIJSetPreallocationCSR(Mat B,const PetscInt i[],const PetscInt j[], const PetscScalar v[])

Collective on MPI_Comm

### Input Parameters

| A | - the matrix
| i | - the indices into j for the start of each local row (starts with zero)
| j | - the column indices for each local row (starts with zero) these must be sorted for each row
| v | - optional values in the matrix

### Keywords

matrix, aij, compressed row, sparse, parallel

### See Also

MatCreate(), MatCreateSeqAIJ(), MatSetValues(), MatMPIAIJSetPreallocation(), MatCreateMPIAIJ(), MPIAIJ

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Location:src/mat/impls/aij/mpi/mpiaij.c
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