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# PetscDevice

Handle to an accelerator "device" (usually a GPU)

### Synopsis

    typedef struct _n_PetscDevice *PetscDevice;

### Notes

This object is used to house configuration and state of a device, but does not offer any ability to interact with or drive device computation. This functionality is facilitated instead by the PetscDeviceContext object.

### See Also

PetscDeviceKind, PetscDeviceCreate(), PetscDeviceConfigure(), PetscDeviceDestroy(), PetscDeviceContext, PetscDeviceContextSetDevice(), PetscDeviceContextGetDevice()

### Level

beginner

### Location

include/petscdevicetypes.h
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