<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:23 PM Antoine Côté <<a href="mailto:Antoine.Cote3@usherbrooke.ca">Antoine.Cote3@usherbrooke.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi,</div>
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I'm working with a 3D DMDA, with 3 dof per "node", used to create a sparse matrix Mat K. The Mat is modified repeatedly by the program, using the commands (in that order) :</div>
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MatZeroEntries(K)<br>
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In a for loop : MatSetValuesLocal(K, 24, irow, 24, icol, vals, ADD_VALUES)</div>
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MatAssemblyBegin(K, MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY)<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">MatAssemblyEnd(K, MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY)</span><br>
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MatDiagonalScale(K, vec1, vec1)<br>
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MatDiagonalSet(K, vec2, ADD_VALUES)<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">Computing time seems high and I</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> would like to improve it. Running tests
with "-log_view" tells me that MatScale() is the bottle neck (50% of total computing time) . From manual pages, I've tried a few tweaks :</span></div>
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<li>DMSetMatType(da, MATMPIBAIJ) : "For problems with multiple degrees of freedom per node, ... BAIJ can significantly enhance performance", Chapter 14.2.4<br>
</li><li>Used MatMissingDiagonal() to confirm there is no missing diagonal entries : "If the matrix Y is missing some diagonal entries this routine can be very slow", MatDiagonalSet() manual</li><li>Tried MatSetOption()</li><ul>
<li>MAT_NEW_NONZERO_LOCATIONS == PETSC_FALSE : to increase assembly efficiency</li><li>MAT_NEW_NONZERO_LOCATION_ERR == PETSC_TRUE : "When true, assembly processes have one less global reduction"<br>
</li><li>MAT_NEW_NONZERO_ALLOCATION_ERR == PETSC_TRUE : "When true, assembly processes have one less global reduction"<br>
</li><li>MAT_USE_HASH_TABLE == PETSC_TRUE : "Improve the searches during matrix assembly"<br>
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<div><span>According to </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">"-log_view"</span><span>, assembly is fast (0% of total time), and the use of a DMDA makes me believe preallocation
isn't the cause of performance issue.</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I would like to know how could I improve <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">MatScale(). W</span>hat are the best
practices (during allocation, when defining Vecs and Mats, the DMDA, etc.)? Instead of <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">MatDiagonalScale(), s<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">hould
I use another command<span> </span></span>to obtain the same result faster?</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Something is definitely strange. Can you please send the output of</div><div><br></div><div> -log_view -info :mat</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thank you very much!</span></div>
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