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    Not sure what you mean by where is your matrix?  I am simply running
    ex6 in the ksp/examples/tests directory.<br>
    <br>
    The reason I ran this test is because I was seeing the same behavior
    with my finite element code (on perfectly benign problems).<br>
    <br>
    Is there a built-in test that you use to check that superlu_dist is
    working properly with petsc?<br>
    i.e. something you know that works with with petsc 3.3-p5?<br>
    <br>
    -sanjay<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/23/12 4:56 PM, Jed Brown wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAM9tzSnY9o6EckTmo_GkD6QxHjj3o54ragfJotbacPkr8fKfmw@mail.gmail.com"
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      <div dir="ltr">Where is your matrix? It might be ending up with a
        very bad pivot. If the problem can be reproduced, it should be
        reported to the SuperLU_DIST developers to fix. (Note that we do
        not see this with other matrices.) You can also try MUMPS.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Sanjay
          Govindjee <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:s_g@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">s_g@berkeley.edu</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I wanted to use
              SuperLU Dist to perform a direct solve but seem to be
              encountering<br>
              a problem.  I was wonder if this is a know issue and if
              there is a solution for it.<br>
              <br>
              The problem is easily observed using ex6.c in
              src/ksp/ksp/examples/tests.<br>
              <br>
              Out of the box: make runex6 produces a residual error of
              O(1e-11), all is well.<br>
              <br>
              I then changed the run to run on two processors and add
              the flag<br>
              -pc_factor_mat_solver_package spooles  this produces a
              residual error of O(1e-11), all is still well.<br>
              <br>
              I then switch over to -pc_factor_mat_solver_package
              superlu_dist and the<br>
              residual error comes back as 22.6637!  Something seems
              very wrong.<br>
              <br>
              My build is perfectly vanilla:<br>
              <br>
              export PETSC_DIR=/Users/sg/petsc-3.3-p5/<br>
              export PETSC_ARCH=intel<br>
              <br>
              ./configure --with-cc=icc --with-fc=ifort  \
-download-{spooles,parmetis,superlu_dist,prometheus,mpich,ml,hypre,metis}<br>
              <br>
              make PETSC_DIR=/Users/sg/petsc-3.3-p5/ PETSC_ARCH=intel
              all<br>
              make PETSC_DIR=/Users/sg/petsc-3.3-p5/ PETSC_ARCH=intel
              test<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                  <br>
                  -sanjay<br>
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