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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thank you Mathew. Now, it is all making sense to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">From data file </span>
ksp_ex45_N511_gpu_2.txt <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">KSPSolve (53%) + KSPSetup (0%) = PCSetup (16%) + PCApply (37%).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, you said “So an iteration would mostly consist of MatMult + PCApply, with some vector work”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The MalMult event is 4 %. How does this event figure into the above equation; if preconditioning (MatMult + PCApply) is included in KSPSolve?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Karthik.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Matthew Knepley <knepley@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 29 September 2021 at 10:58<br>
<b>To: </b>"Chockalingam, Karthikeyan (STFC,DL,HC)" <karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Barry Smith <bsmith@petsc.dev>, "petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov" <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [petsc-users] %T (percent time in this phase)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 5:52 AM Karthikeyan Chockalingam - STFC UKRI <<a href="mailto:karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk">karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">That was helpful. I would like to provide some additional details of my run on cpus and gpus. Please find the following attachments:<o:p></o:p></p>
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graph.pdf a plot showing overall time and various petsc events.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="gmail-m-3409338445930824232msolistparagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
ksp_ex45_N511_cpu_6.txt data file of the log_summary <o:p></o:p></li><li class="gmail-m-3409338445930824232msolistparagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
ksp_ex45_N511_gpu_2.txt data file of the log_summary <o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I used the following petsc options for cpu<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">mpirun -n 6 ./ex45 -log_summary -da_grid_x 511 -da_grid_y 511 -da_grid_z 511 -dm_mat_type mpiaij -dm_vec_type mpi -ksp_type cg -pc_type bjacobi -ksp_monitor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">and for gpus</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">mpirun -n 1 ./ex45 -log_summary -da_grid_x 511 -da_grid_y 511 -da_grid_z 511 -dm_mat_type mpiaijcusparse -dm_vec_type mpicuda -ksp_type cg -pc_type bjacobi
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">to run the following problem</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://petsc.org/release/src/ksp/ksp/tutorials/ex45.c.html" target="_blank">https://petsc.org/release/src/ksp/ksp/tutorials/ex45.c.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From the above code, I see is there no individual function called
</span>KSPSetUp(), so I gather KSPSetDM, KSPSetComputeInitialGuess, KSPSetComputeRHS, kSPSetComputeOperators all are timed together as KSPSetUp.<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> For this example, is KSPSetUp time and KSPSolve time mutually exclusive?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">No, KSPSetUp() will be contained in KSPSolve() if it is called automatically.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In your response you said that</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> “PCSetUp() time may be in KSPSetUp() or it maybe in PCApply() it depends on how much of the preconditioner construction can take place early, so depends exactly on the preconditioner
used.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I don’t see a explicit call to PCSetUp() or PCApply() in ex45; so for this particular preconditioner (bjacobi) how can I tell how they
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<p class="MsoNormal">They are all inside KSPSolve(). If you have a preconditioned linear solve, the oreconditioning happens during the iteration. So an iteration would mostly<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">consist of MatMult + PCApply, with some vector work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I am hoping to time KSP solving and preconditioning mutually exclusively.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am not sure that concept makes sense here. See above.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Matt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 28 September 2021 at 19:19<br>
<b>To: </b>"Chockalingam, Karthikeyan (STFC,DL,HC)" <<a href="mailto:karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk" target="_blank">karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>" <<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [petsc-users] %T (percent time in this phase)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Sep 28, 2021, at 12:11 PM, Karthikeyan Chockalingam - STFC UKRI <<a href="mailto:karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk" target="_blank">karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks for Barry for your response.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I was just benchmarking the problem with various preconditioner on cpu and gpu. I understand, it is not possible to get mutually exclusive timing.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">However, can you tell if KSPSolve time includes both PCSetup and PCApply? And if KSPSolve and KSPSetup are mutually exclusive? Likewise for PCSetUp and PCApply.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> If you do not call KSPSetUp() separately from KSPSolve() then its time is included with KSPSolve().<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> PCSetUp() time may be in KSPSetUp() or it maybe in PCApply() it depends on how much of the preconditioner construction can take place early, so depends exactly on the preconditioner
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> So yes the answer is not totally satisfying. The one thing I would recommend is to not call KSPSetUp() directly and then KSPSolve() will always include the total time of the
solve plus all setup time. PCApply will contain all the time to apply the preconditioner but may also include some setup time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Date:<span class="gmail-m-3409338445930824232apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tuesday, 28 September 2021 at 16:56<br>
<b>To:<span class="gmail-m-3409338445930824232apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Chockalingam, Karthikeyan (STFC,DL,HC)" <<a href="mailto:karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk" target="_blank">karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk</a>><br>
<b>Cc:<span class="gmail-m-3409338445930824232apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>" <<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject:<span class="gmail-m-3409338445930824232apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [petsc-users] %T (percent time in this phase)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Sep 28, 2021, at 10:55 AM, Karthikeyan Chockalingam - STFC UKRI <<a href="mailto:karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk" target="_blank">karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I ran ex45 in the KPS tutorial, which is a 3D finite-difference Poisson problem. I noticed from the output from using the flag -log_summary that for
various events their respective %T (percent time in this phase) do not add up to 100 but rather exceeds 100. So, I gather there is some overlap among these events. I am primarily looking at the events KSPSetUp, KSPSolve, PCSetUp and PCSolve. Is it possible
to get a mutually exclusive %T or Time for these individual events? I have attached the log_summary output file from my run for your reference.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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