[petsc-dev] discrepancy with bcgs, mpi, cusp, and no preconditioning

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Thu May 10 14:49:55 CDT 2012


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Chetan Jhurani <chetan.jhurani at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi wizards of "->ops->" indirections,
>
> I'm trying to use bcgs without preconditioning, for now, and
> the iterations using "-vec_type cusp -mat_type mpiaijcusp" don't
> match serial or non-GPU options.  I've attached the test program
> and the 4 outputs (serial/parallel + CPU/GPU).  All this is
> with petsc-dev downloaded now and real scalars.
>
> Only the parallel GPU results are different starting from
> third residual norm seen in results.txt.  The other three match
> one another.  Am I doing something wrong?
>
> fbcgs (bcgs with -ksp_bcgs_flexible) works fine with all the
> serial/parallel or CPU/GPU options I've tried.
>
> Let me know if you need the matrix, rhs, and initial guess
> binary files that are read in by the test program.
>

That would be great. This looks like a bug that should be tracked down.

    MAtt


> Thanks,
>
> Chetan
>
>


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