[petsc-users] How to simplify the nonzero structure of the jacobian matrix.

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 19:23:43 CST 2012


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Xuefei (Rebecca) Yuan <xyuan at lbl.gov>wrote:

> Here is the output:
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> On Jan 20, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Xuefei (Rebecca) Yuan <xyuan at lbl.gov>wrote:
>
>> Hello Matt,
>>
>> I tried several times for 3.1-p8 and dev version by putting MatSetOption
>>
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> Are you sure your entries are exactly 0.0?
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>
Are you using ADD_VALUES?

http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/petsc-dev/file/783e93230143/src/mat/impls/aij/seq/aij.c#l310

    Matt


>    Matt
>
>
>> 1) right after creation of the matrix:
>>
>> #ifdef petscDev
>>         ierr = DMCreateMatrix(DMMGGetDM(dmmg), MATAIJ,
>> &jacobian);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> #else
>>         ierr = DAGetMatrix(DMMGGetDA(dmmg), MATAIJ,
>> &jacobian);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>> #endif
>>         ierr = MatSetOption(jacobian, MAT_IGNORE_ZERO_ENTRIES,
>> PETSC_TRUE);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>
>> 2) at the beginning of the FormJacobianLocal() routine:
>>
>>        PetscFunctionBegin;
>>         ierr = MatSetOption(jacobian, MAT_IGNORE_ZERO_ENTRIES,
>> PETSC_TRUE);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>
>> 3) before calling MatAssemblyBegin() in FormJacobianLocal() routine:
>>
>>         ierr = MatSetOption(jacobian, MAT_IGNORE_ZERO_ENTRIES,
>> PETSC_TRUE);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>         ierr = MatAssemblyBegin(jacobian,
>> MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>         ierr = MatAssemblyEnd(jacobian, MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>
>> None of those works. What is wrong here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> R
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Xuefei (Rebecca) Yuan <xyuan at lbl.gov>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Matt,
>>>
>>> I have changed the code as
>>>
>>>         ierr = MatSetOption(jacobian, MAT_IGNORE_ZERO_ENTRIES,
>>> PETSC_TRUE);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>         ierr = MatAssemblyBegin(jacobian,
>>> MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>         ierr = MatAssemblyEnd(jacobian,
>>> MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>
>>
>> You have to set it before you start setting values, so we know to ignore
>> them.
>>
>>    Matt
>>
>>
>>> but still get the same result as before, the matrix still has 5776
>>> nonzeros:
>>>
>>> % Size = 100 100
>>>    2 % Nonzeros = 5776
>>>    3 zzz = zeros(5776,3);
>>>
>>> Then I switch the order as
>>>
>>>         ierr = MatAssemblyBegin(jacobian,
>>> MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>         ierr = MatAssemblyEnd(jacobian,
>>> MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>         ierr = MatSetOption(jacobian, MAT_IGNORE_ZERO_ENTRIES,
>>> PETSC_TRUE);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>
>>> nothing changed.
>>>
>>> The version is 3.1-p8.
>>>
>>> Thanks very much!
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Rebecca
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Xuefei (Rebecca) Yuan <xyuan at lbl.gov>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> This is a test for np=1 case of the nonzero structure of the jacobian
>>>> matrix. The jacobian matrix is created via
>>>>
>>>> ierr =
>>>> DMDACreate2d(comm,DMDA_BOUNDARY_NONE,DMDA_BOUNDARY_NONE,DMDA_STENCIL_BOX,
>>>> parameters.mxfield, parameters.myfield, PETSC_DECIDE, PETSC_DECIDE, 4, 2,
>>>> 0, 0, &da);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>
>>>> ierr = DMCreateMatrix(DMMGGetDM(dmmg), MATAIJ, &jacobian);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>
>>>> After creation of the jacobian matrix,
>>>>
>>>>                ierr = MatAssemblyBegin(jacobian,
>>>> MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>                ierr = MatAssemblyEnd(jacobian,
>>>> MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>
>>>>                PetscViewer viewer;
>>>>                char fileName[120];
>>>>                sprintf(fileName,
>>>> "jacobian_after_creation.m");CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>
>>>>                FILE * fp;
>>>>
>>>>                ierr =
>>>> PetscViewerASCIIOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,fileName,&viewer);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>                ierr =
>>>> PetscViewerSetFormat(viewer,PETSC_VIEWER_ASCII_MATLAB);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>                ierr = MatView (jacobian, viewer); CHKERRQ (ierr);
>>>>                ierr = PetscFOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,fileName,"a",&fp);
>>>> CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>                ierr =
>>>> PetscViewerASCIIPrintf(viewer,"spy((spconvert(zzz)));\n");CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>                ierr = PetscFClose(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,fp);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>                PetscViewerDestroy(&viewer);
>>>>
>>>> I took a look at the structure of the jacobian by storing it in the
>>>> matlab format, the matrix has 5776 nonzeros entries, however, those values
>>>> are all zeros at the moment as I have not insert or add any values into it
>>>> yet, the structure shows: (the following figure shows a global replacement
>>>> of 0.0 by 1.0 for those 5776 numbers)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Inside the FormJacobianLocal() function, I have selected the index to
>>>> pass to the nonzero values to jacobian, for example,
>>>>
>>>>  ierr = MatSetValuesStencil(jacobian, 1, &row, 6, col, v,
>>>> INSERT_VALUES);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>>
>>>> where
>>>>
>>>>                    col[0].i = column[4].i;
>>>>                    col[1].i = column[5].i;
>>>>                    col[2].i = column[6].i;
>>>>                    col[3].i = column[9].i;
>>>>                    col[4].i = column[10].i;
>>>>                    col[5].i = column[12].i;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                    col[0].j = column[4].j;
>>>>                    col[1].j = column[5].j;
>>>>                    col[2].j = column[6].j;
>>>>                    col[3].j = column[9].j;
>>>>                    col[4].j = column[10].j;
>>>>                    col[5].j = column[12].j;
>>>>
>>>>                    col[0].c = column[4].c;
>>>>                    col[1].c = column[5].c;
>>>>                    col[2].c = column[6].c;
>>>>                    col[3].c = column[9].c;
>>>>                    col[4].c = column[10].c;
>>>>                    col[5].c = column[12].c;
>>>>
>>>>                    v[0] = value[4];
>>>>                    v[1] = value[5];
>>>>                    v[2] = value[6];
>>>>                    v[3] = value[9];
>>>>                    v[4] = value[10];
>>>>                    v[5] = value[12];
>>>>
>>>> and did not pass the zero entries into the jacobian matrix. However,
>>>>  after inserting or adding all values to the matrix, by the same routine
>>>> above to take a look at the jacobian matrix in matlab format, the matrix
>>>> still has 5776 nonzeros, in which 1075 numbers are nonzeros, and the other
>>>> 4701 numbers are all zeros. The spy() gives
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> for the true nonzero structures.
>>>>
>>>> But the ksp_view will give the nonzeros number as 5776, instead of 1075:
>>>>
>>>>  linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>>>  Matrix Object:  Mat_0x84000000_1   1 MPI processes
>>>>    type: seqaij
>>>>    rows=100, cols=100
>>>>    total: nonzeros=5776, allocated nonzeros=5776
>>>>
>>>> It is a waste of memory to have all those values of zeros been stored
>>>> in the jacobian.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyway to get rid of those zero values in jacobian and has the
>>>> only nonzero numbers stored in jacobian? In such a case, the ksp_view will
>>>> tell that total:  nonzeros=1075.
>>>>
>>>
>>> MatSetOption(MAT_IGNORE_ZERO_ENTRIES, PETSC_TRUE);
>>>
>>>    Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks very much!
>>>>
>>>> Have a nice weekend!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Rebecca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>>> experiments lead.
>>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
>>
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> --
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> -- Norbert Wiener
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