<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:51 AM, Mark Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mfadams@lbl.gov" target="_blank">mfadams@lbl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><div>I'm trying to get block smoothers to work for gamg. We (Garth<span style="font-size:12.8px">) tried this and got this error:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> - Another option is use '-pc_gamg_use_agg_gasm true' and use '-mg_levels_pc_type gasm'.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></span><div style="font-size:12.8px">Running in parallel, I get</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> ** Max-trans not allowed because matrix is distributed</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> ----</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">First, what is the difference between asm and gasm?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>ASM is very simple Additive Schwarz which can have multiple blocks per process, but cannot have blocks spanning</div><div>processes. GASM was meant to generalize this, but Dmitry wrote it and (to my knowledge) the support situation is</div><div>uncertain. Maybe Barry know better.</div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Second, I need to fix this to get block smoothers. This used to work. Did we lose the capability to have blocks that span processor subdomains?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Did we ever have it?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I thought so but it's been a long time. The code did work at one point but now I (Garth) gets this error. </div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know about this error? I don't find it with 'git grep <span style="font-size:12.8px">Max-trans</span>'</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Mark</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">gamg only aggregates across processor subdomains within one layer, so maybe I could use one layer of overlap in some way?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>ASM can do arbitrary overlap.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Mark</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">
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