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<div><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">-pc_type hypre -pc_hypre_type pilut -pc_hypre_pilut_maxiter 1000 -pc_hypre_pilut_tol 1e-3 -ksp_type b</span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;">cgs -ksp_rtol 1e-10 -ksp_max_it 10 -ksp_monitor_short
-ksp_converged_reason -ksp_view</span>
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<div>Here is the full output:</div>
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0 KSP Residual norm 1404.62 </p>
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1 KSP Residual norm 88.9068 </p>
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2 KSP Residual norm 64.73 </p>
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3 KSP Residual norm 71.0224 </p>
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4 KSP Residual norm 69.5044 </p>
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5 KSP Residual norm 455.458 </p>
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6 KSP Residual norm 174.876 </p>
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7 KSP Residual norm 183.031 </p>
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8 KSP Residual norm 650.675 </p>
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9 KSP Residual norm 79.2441 </p>
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10 KSP Residual norm 84.1985 </p>
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Linear solve did not converge due to DIVERGED_ITS iterations 10</p>
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KSP Object: 1 MPI processes</p>
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type: bcgs</p>
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maximum iterations=10, initial guess is zero</p>
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tolerances: relative=1e-10, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000</p>
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left preconditioning</p>
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using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test</p>
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PC Object: 1 MPI processes</p>
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type: hypre</p>
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HYPRE Pilut preconditioning</p>
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HYPRE Pilut: maximum number of iterations 1000</p>
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HYPRE Pilut: drop tolerance 0.001</p>
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HYPRE Pilut: default factor row size </p>
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linear system matrix = precond matrix:</p>
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Mat Object: 1 MPI processes</p>
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type: seqaij</p>
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rows=62500, cols=62500</p>
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total: nonzeros=473355, allocated nonzeros=7.8125e+06</p>
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total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0</p>
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not using I-node routines</p>
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Time cost: 0.756198, 0.662984, 0.105672 </p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 18, 2015 3:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sun, Hui<br>
<b>Cc:</b> petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [petsc-users] Question concerning ilu and bcgs<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Sun, Hui <span dir="ltr">
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">I have a matrix system Ax = b, A is of type MatSeqAIJ or MatMPIAIJ, depending on the number of cores.
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<div>I try to solve this problem by pc_type ilu and ksp_type bcgs, it does not converge. The options I specify are:</div>
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<div>1) Run with -ksp_view, so we can see exactly what was used</div>
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<div>2) ILUT is unfortunately not a well-defined algorithm, and I believe the parallel version makes different decisions</div>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px"><font>The first a few lines of the output are:</font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 0 KSP Residual norm 1404.62 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 1 KSP Residual norm 88.9068 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 2 KSP Residual norm 64.73 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 3 KSP Residual norm 71.0224 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 4 KSP Residual norm 69.5044 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 5 KSP Residual norm 455.458 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 6 KSP Residual norm 174.876 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 7 KSP Residual norm 183.031 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 8 KSP Residual norm 650.675 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 9 KSP Residual norm 79.2441 </p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> 10 KSP Residual norm 84.1985</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px"><font>This clearly indicates non-convergence. However, I output the sparse matrix A and vector b to MATLAB, and run the following command:</font></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px">[L,U] = ilu(A,struct('type','ilutp','droptol',1e-3));</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px">[ux1,fl1,rr1,it1,rv1] = bicgstab(A,b,1e-10,1000,L,U);</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px">And it converges in MATLAB, with flag fl1=0, relative residue rr1=8.2725e-11, and iteration it1=89.5. I'm wondering how can I figure out what's wrong. </p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px">Best, </p>
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