# VecStrideMax

Computes the maximum of subvector of a vector defined by a starting point and a stride and optionally its location.

### Synopsis

    #include "petscvec.h"
    PetscErrorCode  VecStrideMax(Vec v,PetscInt start,PetscInt *idex,PetscReal *nrm)

Collective on Vec

### Input Parameter

| v | - the vector
| start | - starting point of the subvector (defined by a stride)

### Output Parameter

| index | - the location where the maximum occurred (pass PETSC_NULL if not required)
| nrm | - the max

### C++ variants

| PetscReal VecStrideMax(Vec x,PetscInt i) |  | -> |  | VecStrideMax(x,i,PETSC_NULL,&r); return r;

### Notes

One must call VecSetBlockSize() before this routine to set the stride information, or use a vector created from a multicomponent DA.

If xa is the array representing the vector x, then this computes the max of the array (xa[start],xa[start+stride],xa[start+2*stride], ....)

This is useful for computing, say the maximum of the pressure variable when the pressure is stored (interlaced) with other variables, e.g., density, etc. This will only work if the desire subvector is a stride subvector.

### See Also

VecMax(), VecStrideNorm(), VecStrideGather(), VecStrideScatter(), VecStrideMin()

Level:advanced
Location:src/vec/vec/utils/vinv.c
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