<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>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Sanjay Govindjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s_g@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">s_g@berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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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