[petsc-users] Trying to modify petrbf to use custom text file

Anil . dasans at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 03:26:57 CDT 2013


Matt,

PetRBF runs properly on my system. But is the dev branch still required to
run petRBF?
Could my issues be associated with this?


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Anil . <dasans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Matt,
>>
>> Petsc Options I use to run are....
>> mpirun -np 4 ./reader -pc_type asm -sub_pc_type lu -sub_mat_type dense
>> -ksp_monitor -ksp_rtol 1e-13 -ksp_max_it 100 -vecscatter_alltoall
>> -log_summary
>>
>
> 1) Always run with -ksp_view.
>
> 2) The relative tolerance is probably too tight, but that is secondary
>
> 3) Something is really wrong here. I am guessing something in the input
> not what you want. If the interaction is
>     truly short range, you would see significant drop in the residual on
> the first iteration. First, take a look at the
>     matrix using -mat_view draw:: -draw_pause -1. It should be banded.
>
>     Matt
>
>  Attached is the output..It also contains my petsc configuration
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Anil . <dasans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Matt,
>>>>
>>>> I am having around 3481 particles that are placed in an unstructured
>>>> manner.
>>>> Attached is the image showing the distribution.
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Show me your PETSc options, and try playing with the number of blocks.
>>> If you look
>>> at the PetRBF paper, we give guidance for choosing the sizes.
>>>
>>>    Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Anil . <dasans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Could not find the petrbf mailing list
>>>>>> 2) Petrbf runs perfectly
>>>>>> 3) Attached is the output with -ksp_view -ksp_monitor
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just point me in the right direction. Issues might be very basic as I
>>>>>> am starting to use Petsc
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This output is a little strange. Some partitions have 0 entries. I am
>>>>> guessing this problem is very
>>>>> small. For PeRBF, it does turn out to be optimal to use small blocks,
>>>>> but the block size depends
>>>>> on your interaction scale. Right now you have 75 blocks, which might
>>>>> be too many for your small
>>>>> problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Matt
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Anil . <dasans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have a text file containing N rows.
>>>>>>>> Each row with x,y,omega values.
>>>>>>>> I am trying to interpolate this data onto a regular grid using
>>>>>>>> petrbf
>>>>>>>> But the KSP does not converge and am not able to find the reason.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The code is available with the text files at
>>>>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/cypuwugbxo07kx0/rbf-interpolation.tar.gz
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am very new to petsc and any direction how o proceed would be
>>>>>>>> helpful.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) Did you mail the petrbf list?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) Could you run the petrbf examples?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3) We cannot tell anything about convergence without the output of
>>>>>>> -ksp_view -ksp_monitor.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    Matt
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Sincerely
>>>>>>>> Anil Das P V
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Sincerely
>>>>>> Anil Das P V
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sincerely
>>>> Anil Das P V
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely
>> Anil Das P V
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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
>



-- 
Sincerely
Anil Das P V
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