[petsc-dev] Problem with VecLoad and .info files

[Blaise Bourdin]

On Jun 10, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Jed Brown wrote:

> Can you set a different prefix for each vector? (I'm surprised that more people don't run into this problem of incompatibility, but don't know an easy generic way to fix the problem.)
> 
> $ cat vector.dat.info 
> -vecload_block_size 1
> -vecload_block_size 3

Very good point. That fixes the problem. and for existing files, I can always delete the .info file. I need to switch to the built-in binary vtk viewer anyway...
Blaise



> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Blaise Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I found another bug related to Vec blocksize...
> 
> It looks like loading vectors with different block sizes from a binary fine is broken in petsc-3.3:
> try the attached example:
> 
> iMac:Misc blaise$ ./TestVecLoad-dev -ndofU 1 -ndofV 3  -nx 2 -ny 2 -mode 0
> Vector Object:UVec 1 MPI processes
>  type: mpi
> Process [0]
> 0
> 10
> 1
> 11
> Vector Object:VVec 1 MPI processes
>  type: mpi
> Process [0]
> 0
> -100
> -200
> -10
> -110
> -210
> -1
> -101
> -201
> -11
> -111
> -211
> Writing vectors to file
> iMac:Misc blaise$ ./TestVecLoad-dev -ndofU 1 -ndofV 3  -nx 2 -ny 2 -mode 1
> Reading vectors from file
> Processor [0] M 2 N 2 m 1 n 1 w 1 s 1
> X range of indices: 0 2, Y range of indices: 0 2
> Processor [0] M 2 N 2 m 1 n 1 w 3 s 1
> X range of indices: 0 2, Y range of indices: 0 2
> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message ------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Arguments are incompatible!
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Local size 4 not compatible with block size 3!
> [0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.3.0, Patch 0, unknown
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
> [0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: ./TestVecLoad-dev on a Darwin-gc named iMac.local by blaise Sun Jun 10 08:35:07 2012
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from /opt/HPC/petsc-3.3/Darwin-gcc4.2-g/lib
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Fri Jun  8 22:01:00 2012
> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options CFLAGS=-Wno-unused --download-hdf5=1 --download-metis=1 --download-parmetis=1 --download-sowing=1 --download-triangle=1 --with-cmake=cmake --with-debugging=1 --with-gnu-compilers=1 --with-mpi-dir=/opt/HPC/mpich2-1.4.1p1-gcc4.2 --with-pic --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-x11=1
> [0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [0]PETSC ERROR: PetscLayoutSetBlockSize() line 459 in /opt/HPC/petsc-3.3/src/vec/vec/impls/mpi/pmap.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: VecSetBlockSize() line 1526 in /opt/HPC/petsc-3.3/src/vec/vec/interface/vector.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: VecLoad_Binary() line 104 in /opt/HPC/petsc-3.3/src/vec/vec/utils/vecio.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: VecLoad_Default() line 348 in /opt/HPC/petsc-3.3/src/vec/vec/utils/vecio.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: VecLoad() line 1111 in /opt/HPC/petsc-3.3/src/vec/vec/interface/vector.c
> [0]PETSC ERROR: main() line 86 in TestVecLoad-dev.c
> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 75) - process 0
> [unset]: aborting job:
> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 75) - process 0
> 
> but if one destroys the vector.dat.info file, everything seems fine:
> 
> iMac:Misc blaise$ ./TestVecLoad-dev -ndofU 1 -ndofV 3  -nx 2 -ny 2 -mode 0
> Vector Object:UVec 1 MPI processes
>  type: mpi
> Process [0]
> 0
> 10
> 1
> 11
> Vector Object:VVec 1 MPI processes
>  type: mpi
> Process [0]
> 0
> -100
> -200
> -10
> -110
> -210
> -1
> -101
> -201
> -11
> -111
> -211
> Writing vectors to file
> iMac:Misc blaise$ rm vector.dat.info
> iMac:Misc blaise$ ./TestVecLoad-dev -ndofU 1 -ndofV 3  -nx 2 -ny 2 -mode 1
> Reading vectors from file
> Processor [0] M 2 N 2 m 1 n 1 w 1 s 1
> X range of indices: 0 2, Y range of indices: 0 2
> Processor [0] M 2 N 2 m 1 n 1 w 3 s 1
> X range of indices: 0 2, Y range of indices: 0 2
> Vector Object:UVec 1 MPI processes
>  type: seq
> 0
> 10
> 1
> 11
> Vector Object:VVec 1 MPI processes
>  type: seq
> 0
> -100
> -200
> -10
> -110
> -210
> -1
> -101
> -201
> -11
> -111
> -211
> 
> Blaise
> 
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