[petsc-users] Slower performance using more MPI processes

Chris Hewson chris at resfrac.com
Fri Sep 8 16:22:29 CDT 2023


Thanks for the quick response.

The links to the log view files are below:
2 ranks:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PGRsiHypWtN5h3uxdJBKy9WzEkE0mUgO/view?usp=drive_link

1 rank:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hB2XyoNtLMHseZUT7jCuiixTQeBi_tjJ/view?usp=drive_link

I'll also attach them to this email:
**************************** 1 RANK ******************************
------------------------------------------------------------------ PETSc
Performance Summary:
------------------------------------------------------------------

./petsc-testing on a  named ubuntu-office with 1 processor, by chewson Fri
Sep  8 15:16:51 2023
Using Petsc Release Version 3.19.5, unknown

                         Max       Max/Min     Avg       Total
Time (sec):           2.746e+00     1.000   2.746e+00
Objects:              2.100e+01     1.000   2.100e+01
Flops:                4.117e+09     1.000   4.117e+09  4.117e+09
Flops/sec:            1.499e+09     1.000   1.499e+09  1.499e+09
MPI Msg Count:        0.000e+00     0.000   0.000e+00  0.000e+00
MPI Msg Len (bytes):  0.000e+00     0.000   0.000e+00  0.000e+00
MPI Reductions:       0.000e+00     0.000

Flop counting convention: 1 flop = 1 real number operation of type
(multiply/divide/add/subtract)
                            e.g., VecAXPY() for real vectors of length N
--> 2N flops
                            and VecAXPY() for complex vectors of length N
--> 8N flops

Summary of Stages:   ----- Time ------  ----- Flop ------  --- Messages ---
 -- Message Lengths --  -- Reductions --
                        Avg     %Total     Avg     %Total    Count   %Total
    Avg         %Total    Count   %Total
 0:      Main Stage: 2.7458e+00 100.0%  4.1167e+09 100.0%  0.000e+00   0.0%
 0.000e+00        0.0%  0.000e+00   0.0%

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See the 'Profiling' chapter of the users' manual for details on
interpreting output.
Phase summary info:
   Count: number of times phase was executed
   Time and Flop: Max - maximum over all processors
                  Ratio - ratio of maximum to minimum over all processors
   Mess: number of messages sent
   AvgLen: average message length (bytes)
   Reduct: number of global reductions
   Global: entire computation
   Stage: stages of a computation. Set stages with PetscLogStagePush() and
PetscLogStagePop().
      %T - percent time in this phase         %F - percent flop in this
phase
      %M - percent messages in this phase     %L - percent message lengths
in this phase
      %R - percent reductions in this phase
   Total Mflop/s: 10e-6 * (sum of flop over all processors)/(max time over
all processors)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Event                Count      Time (sec)     Flop
     --- Global ---  --- Stage ----  Total
                   Max Ratio  Max     Ratio   Max  Ratio  Mess   AvgLen
 Reduct  %T %F %M %L %R  %T %F %M %L %R Mflop/s
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--- Event Stage 0: Main Stage

MatMult              182 1.0 8.0351e-01 1.0 1.43e+09 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00 29 35  0  0  0  29 35  0  0  0  1775
MatSolve             183 1.0 1.0882e+00 1.0 1.43e+09 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00 40 35  0  0  0  40 35  0  0  0  1318
MatLUFactorNum         1 1.0 1.3892e-02 1.0 1.30e+07 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  1  0  0  0  0   1  0  0  0  0   934
MatILUFactorSym        1 1.0 2.1567e-02 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  1  0  0  0  0   1  0  0  0  0     0
MatAssemblyBegin       1 1.0 1.0420e-06 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatAssemblyEnd         1 1.0 6.9049e-03 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatGetRowIJ            1 1.0 3.8500e-07 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatGetOrdering         1 1.0 1.7026e-03 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatLoad                1 1.0 6.6749e-02 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  2  0  0  0  0   2  0  0  0  0     0
VecDot               182 1.0 1.9998e-01 1.0 2.26e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  7  5  0  0  0   7  5  0  0  0  1129
VecDotNorm2           91 1.0 6.6214e-02 1.0 2.26e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  2  5  0  0  0   2  5  0  0  0  3409
VecNorm               92 1.0 1.4790e-01 1.0 1.14e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  5  3  0  0  0   5  3  0  0  0   771
VecCopy                2 1.0 6.8473e-04 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
VecSet                 3 1.0 1.3256e-03 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
VecAXPBYCZ           182 1.0 1.6542e-01 1.0 4.51e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  6 11  0  0  0   6 11  0  0  0  2729
VecWAXPY             182 1.0 1.4476e-01 1.0 2.26e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  5  5  0  0  0   5  5  0  0  0  1559
VecLoad                2 1.0 1.0104e-02 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
KSPSetUp               1 1.0 9.9204e-03 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
KSPSolve               1 1.0 2.6210e+00 1.0 4.10e+09 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00 95 100  0  0  0  95 100  0  0  0  1566
PCSetUp                1 1.0 3.7232e-02 1.0 1.30e+07 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  1  0  0  0  0   1  0  0  0  0   349
PCApply              183 1.0 1.0885e+00 1.0 1.43e+09 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00 40 35  0  0  0  40 35  0  0  0  1318

--- Event Stage 1: Unknown

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Object Type          Creations   Destructions. Reports information only for
process 0.

--- Event Stage 0: Main Stage

              Viewer     4              1
              Matrix     3              1
              Vector     9              1
       Krylov Solver     1              0
      Preconditioner     1              0
           Index Set     3              0

--- Event Stage 1: Unknown

========================================================================================================================
Average time to get PetscTime(): 1.51e-08
#PETSc Option Table entries:
-log_view # (source: command line)
#End of PETSc Option Table entries
Compiled without FORTRAN kernels
Compiled with full precision matrices (default)
sizeof(short) 2 sizeof(int) 4 sizeof(long) 8 sizeof(void*) 8
sizeof(PetscScalar) 8 sizeof(PetscInt) 4
Configure options: --with-debugging=0 --prefix=/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5
--download-mumps --download-scalapack --with-mpi=1
--with-mpi-dir=/opt/anl/mpich COPTFLAGS=-O2 CXXOPTFLAGS=-O2 FOPTFLAGS=-O2
-----------------------------------------
Libraries compiled on 2023-09-08 16:27:49 on ubuntu-office
Machine characteristics: Linux-6.2.0-26-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
Using PETSc directory: /opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5
Using PETSc arch:
-----------------------------------------

Using C compiler: /opt/anl/mpich/bin/mpicc  -fPIC -Wall -Wwrite-strings
-Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-lto-type-mismatch -Wno-stringop-overflow
-fstack-protector -fvisibility=hidden -O2
Using Fortran compiler: /opt/anl/mpich/bin/mpif90  -fPIC -Wall
-ffree-line-length-none -ffree-line-length-0 -Wno-lto-type-mismatch
-Wno-unused-dummy-argument -O2
-----------------------------------------

Using include paths: -I/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/include
-I/opt/anl/mpich/include
-----------------------------------------

Using C linker: /opt/anl/mpich/bin/mpicc
Using Fortran linker: /opt/anl/mpich/bin/mpif90
Using libraries: -Wl,-rpath,/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/lib
-L/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/lib -lpetsc -Wl,-rpath,/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/lib
-L/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/anl/mpich/lib
-L/opt/anl/mpich/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11
-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11 -ldmumps -lmumps_common -lpord -lpthread
-lscalapack -llapack -lblas -lm -lX11 -lmpifort -lmpi -lgfortran -lm
-lgfortran -lm -lgcc_s -lquadmath -lstdc++ -lquadmath
-----------------------------------------

************************* 2 RANKS ************************************
------------------------------------------------------------------ PETSc
Performance Summary:
------------------------------------------------------------------

./petsc-testing on a  named ubuntu-office with 2 processors, by chewson Fri
Sep  8 15:16:43 2023
Using Petsc Release Version 3.19.5, unknown

                         Max       Max/Min     Avg       Total
Time (sec):           6.167e+00     1.001   6.164e+00
Objects:              3.200e+01     1.000   3.200e+01
Flops:                2.233e+09     1.000   2.233e+09  4.467e+09
Flops/sec:            3.625e+08     1.001   3.623e+08  7.247e+08
MPI Msg Count:        2.050e+02     1.000   2.050e+02  4.100e+02
MPI Msg Len (bytes):  3.437e+07     1.000   1.676e+05  6.874e+07
MPI Reductions:       4.580e+02     1.000

Flop counting convention: 1 flop = 1 real number operation of type
(multiply/divide/add/subtract)
                            e.g., VecAXPY() for real vectors of length N
--> 2N flops
                            and VecAXPY() for complex vectors of length N
--> 8N flops

Summary of Stages:   ----- Time ------  ----- Flop ------  --- Messages ---
 -- Message Lengths --  -- Reductions --
                        Avg     %Total     Avg     %Total    Count   %Total
    Avg         %Total    Count   %Total
 0:      Main Stage: 6.1642e+00 100.0%  4.4670e+09 100.0%  4.100e+02 100.0%
 1.676e+05      100.0%  4.400e+02  96.1%

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See the 'Profiling' chapter of the users' manual for details on
interpreting output.
Phase summary info:
   Count: number of times phase was executed
   Time and Flop: Max - maximum over all processors
                  Ratio - ratio of maximum to minimum over all processors
   Mess: number of messages sent
   AvgLen: average message length (bytes)
   Reduct: number of global reductions
   Global: entire computation
   Stage: stages of a computation. Set stages with PetscLogStagePush() and
PetscLogStagePop().
      %T - percent time in this phase         %F - percent flop in this
phase
      %M - percent messages in this phase     %L - percent message lengths
in this phase
      %R - percent reductions in this phase
   Total Mflop/s: 10e-6 * (sum of flop over all processors)/(max time over
all processors)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Event                Count      Time (sec)     Flop
     --- Global ---  --- Stage ----  Total
                   Max Ratio  Max     Ratio   Max  Ratio  Mess   AvgLen
 Reduct  %T %F %M %L %R  %T %F %M %L %R Mflop/s
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--- Event Stage 0: Main Stage

BuildTwoSided          1 1.0 3.1824e-05 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 2.0e+00 4.0e+00
1.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatMult              198 1.0 1.3480e+00 1.4 7.76e+08 1.0 4.0e+02 9.4e+04
0.0e+00 19 35 97 54  0  19 35 97 54  0  1151
MatSolve             199 1.0 8.9666e-01 1.2 7.75e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00 13 35  0  0  0  13 35  0  0  0  1729
MatLUFactorNum         1 1.0 7.1852e-03 1.0 6.43e+06 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0  1789
MatILUFactorSym        1 1.0 1.0472e-02 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatAssemblyBegin       1 1.0 9.8700e-07 1.4 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatAssemblyEnd         1 1.0 6.8341e-03 1.1 0.00e+00 0.0 4.0e+00 2.3e+04
5.0e+00  0  0  1  0  1   0  0  1  0  1     0
MatGetRowIJ            1 1.0 1.9930e-06 6.3 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatGetOrdering         1 1.0 7.4472e-04 1.1 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
MatLoad                1 1.0 9.8562e-02 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 1.0e+01 2.7e+06
1.7e+01  2  0  2 39  4   2  0  2 39  4     0
VecDot               198 1.0 2.1037e+00 1.1 1.23e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
2.0e+02 33  5  0  0 43  33  5  0  0 45   117
VecDotNorm2           99 1.0 5.0169e-01 1.2 1.23e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
9.9e+01  7  5  0  0 22   7  5  0  0 22   489
VecNorm              100 1.0 1.3131e+00 1.0 6.20e+07 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
1.0e+02 21  3  0  0 22  21  3  0  0 23    94
VecCopy                2 1.0 7.4971e-04 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
VecSet               202 1.0 8.0035e-02 1.5 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  1  0  0  0  0   1  0  0  0  0     0
VecAXPBYCZ           198 1.0 1.2889e-01 1.5 2.46e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  2 11  0  0  0   2 11  0  0  0  3811
VecWAXPY             198 1.0 9.1526e-02 1.0 1.23e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  1  5  0  0  0   1  5  0  0  0  2683
VecLoad                2 1.0 9.8983e-03 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 4.0e+00 1.2e+06
1.6e+01  0  0  1  7  3   0  0  1  7  4     0
VecScatterBegin      198 1.0 1.2941e-03 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 4.0e+02 9.4e+04
0.0e+00  0  0 97 54  0   0  0 97 54  0     0
VecScatterEnd        198 1.0 7.6160e-01 1.7 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00 10  0  0  0  0  10  0  0  0  0     0
SFSetGraph             1 1.0 7.6630e-05 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
SFSetUp                1 1.0 1.2410e-04 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 4.0e+00 2.3e+04
1.0e+00  0  0  1  0  0   0  0  1  0  0     0
SFPack               198 1.0 5.1814e-05 1.3 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
SFUnpack             198 1.0 3.8273e-05 1.3 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
KSPSetUp               2 1.0 4.7077e-03 1.1 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
2.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
KSPSolve               1 1.0 6.0344e+00 1.0 2.23e+09 1.0 4.0e+02 9.4e+04
4.0e+02 98 100 97 54 87  98 100 97 54 90   738
PCSetUp                2 1.0 1.8496e-02 1.0 6.43e+06 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0   695
PCSetUpOnBlocks        1 1.0 1.8435e-02 1.0 6.43e+06 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0   697
PCApply              199 1.0 9.5103e-01 1.1 7.75e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
0.0e+00 15 35  0  0  0  15 35  0  0  0  1630

--- Event Stage 1: Unknown

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Object Type          Creations   Destructions. Reports information only for
process 0.

--- Event Stage 0: Main Stage

              Viewer     4              1
              Matrix     5              1
              Vector    13              2
           Index Set     5              2
   Star Forest Graph     1              0
       Krylov Solver     2              0
      Preconditioner     2              0

--- Event Stage 1: Unknown

========================================================================================================================
Average time to get PetscTime(): 2.47e-08
Average time for MPI_Barrier(): 4.406e-07
Average time for zero size MPI_Send(): 4.769e-06
#PETSc Option Table entries:
-log_view # (source: command line)
#End of PETSc Option Table entries
Compiled without FORTRAN kernels
Compiled with full precision matrices (default)
sizeof(short) 2 sizeof(int) 4 sizeof(long) 8 sizeof(void*) 8
sizeof(PetscScalar) 8 sizeof(PetscInt) 4
Configure options: --with-debugging=0 --prefix=/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5
--download-mumps --download-scalapack --with-mpi=1
--with-mpi-dir=/opt/anl/mpich COPTFLAGS=-O2 CXXOPTFLAGS=-O2 FOPTFLAGS=-O2
-----------------------------------------
Libraries compiled on 2023-09-08 16:27:49 on ubuntu-office
Machine characteristics: Linux-6.2.0-26-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
Using PETSc directory: /opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5
Using PETSc arch:
-----------------------------------------

Using C compiler: /opt/anl/mpich/bin/mpicc  -fPIC -Wall -Wwrite-strings
-Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-lto-type-mismatch -Wno-stringop-overflow
-fstack-protector -fvisibility=hidden -O2
Using Fortran compiler: /opt/anl/mpich/bin/mpif90  -fPIC -Wall
-ffree-line-length-none -ffree-line-length-0 -Wno-lto-type-mismatch
-Wno-unused-dummy-argument -O2
-----------------------------------------

Using include paths: -I/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/include
-I/opt/anl/mpich/include
-----------------------------------------

Using C linker: /opt/anl/mpich/bin/mpicc
Using Fortran linker: /opt/anl/mpich/bin/mpif90
Using libraries: -Wl,-rpath,/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/lib
-L/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/lib -lpetsc -Wl,-rpath,/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/lib
-L/opt/anl/petsc-3.19.5/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/anl/mpich/lib
-L/opt/anl/mpich/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11
-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11 -ldmumps -lmumps_common -lpord -lpthread
-lscalapack -llapack -lblas -lm -lX11 -lmpifort -lmpi -lgfortran -lm
-lgfortran -lm -lgcc_s -lquadmath -lstdc++ -lquadmath
-----------------------------------------

Chris


On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 3:00 PM Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> wrote:

>
>   It would be very helpful if you could run on 1 and 2 ranks with
> -log_view and send all the output.
>
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2023, at 4:52 PM, Chris Hewson <chris at resfrac.com> wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
> I am trying to solve a linear problem and am having an issue when I use
> more MPI processes with the KSPsolve slowing down considerably the more
> processes I add.
>
> The matrix itself is 620100 X 620100 with ~5 million non-zero entries, I
> am using petsc version 3.19.5 and have tried with a couple different
> versions of mpich getting the same behavior (v4.1.2 w/ device ch4:ofi and
> v3.3.2 w/ ch3:sock).
>
> In testing, I've noticed the following trend for speed for the KSPSolve
> function call:
> 1 core: 4042 ms
> 2 core: 7085 ms
> 4 core: 26573 ms
> 8 core: 65745 ms
> 16 core: 149283 ms
>
> This was all done on a single node machine w/ 16 non-hyperthreaded cores.
> We solve quite a few different matrices with PETSc using MPI and haven't
> noticed an impact like this on performance before.
>
> I am very confused by this and am a little stumped at the moment as to why
> this was happening. I've been using the KSPBCGS solver to solve the
> problem. I have tried with multiple different solvers and pre-conditioners
> (we usually don't use a pre-conditioner for this part of our code).
>
> It did seem that using the piped BCGS solver did help improve the parallel
> speed slightly (maybe 15%), but it still doesn't come close to the single
> threaded speed.
>
> I'll attach a link to a folder that contains the specific A, x and b
> matrices for this problem, as well as a main.cpp file that I was using for
> testing.
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CEDinKxu8ZbKpLtwmqKqP1ZIDG7JvDI1?usp=sharing
>
> I was testing this in our main code base, but don't include that here, and
> observe very similar speed results to the ones above. We do use Metis to
> graph partition in our own code and checked the vector and matrix
> partitioning and that all made sense. I could be doing the partitioning
> incorrectly in the example (not 100% sure how it works with the viewer/load
> functions).
>
> Any insight or thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> *Chris Hewson*
> Senior Reservoir Simulation Engineer
> ResFrac
> +1.587.575.9792
>
>
>
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