<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 9:40 AM Karthikeyan Chockalingam - STFC UKRI <<a href="mailto:karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk">karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk</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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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:red">-ex56_dm_mat_type mpiaijcusparse</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:red">
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">else it crashes with the error message<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown Mat type given: cusparse<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-m_-2282515375836364010p1"><span class="gmail-m_-2282515375836364010s1"><b><span style="font-size:8pt"><a id="gmail-m_-2282515375836364010OWAAMA7137463A35C8E41AD5A10E14481D9D1" href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Menlo;text-decoration:none">@Matthew Knepley</span></a>
</span></b></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Usually PETSc -log_view reports the GPU flops. Alternatively if are using an external package such as hypre, where gpu flops are not recorded by petsc, profiling using Nvidia’s nsight captures them.
So one could tell if the problem is running on gpus or not.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes, that is how we measure GPU flops. I was asking how you tell the example to run on the GPU. I suggested using -ex56_dm_mat_type. You said that you were</div><div>not using this but still running on a GPU. I did not see how this could be possible, so I was asking about that.</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 lang="EN-GB" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-2282515375836364010WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Karthik.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Monday, 13 December 2021 at 13:58<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>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [petsc-users] Unstructured mesh<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 8:35 AM Karthikeyan Chockalingam - STFC UKRI <<a href="mailto:karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk" target="_blank">karthikeyan.chockalingam@stfc.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Matt. Couple of weeks back you mentioned<u></u><u></u></p>
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but the vector/matrix FEM assembly does not. I am working on that now.”</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am able to run other examples in ksp/tutorials on gpus. I complied ex56 in snes/tutorials no differently. The only difference being I didn’t specify _dm_vec_type and _dm_vec_type
(as you mentioned they are not assembled on gpus anyways plus I am working on an unstructured grid thought _dm is not right type for this problem). I was hoping to see gpu flops recorded for KSPSolve, which I didn’t.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Okay, I will wait for Mark to comment.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This (DM) example works like any other, with a prefix, as far as GPU: -ex56_dm_vec_type cuda and -ex56_dm_mat_type cusparse, or aijkokkos/kokkos, etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Run with -options_left to verify that these are used. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Monday, 13 December 2021 at 13:17<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>Mark Adams <<a href="mailto:mfadams@lbl.gov" target="_blank">mfadams@lbl.gov</a>>, "<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] Unstructured mesh</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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mesh</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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-cells 2,2,1 -max_conv_its 2</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Menlo">Say I start with -cells 1,1,1 -max_conv its<span class="gmail-m_-2282515375836364010gmail-m-743708965511543589gmail-m4613828314074599431s1"> 7; that would eventually leave all refinement on level 7 running on 1 MPI process?</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am running ex56 on gpu; I am looking at KSPSolve (or any other event) but no gpu flops are recorded in the -log_view?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I do not think you are running on the GPU then. Mark can comment, but we usually specify GPU execution using the Vec and Mat types<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">through -dm_vec_type and -dm_mat_type.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Karthik.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Sunday, 12 December 2021 at 23:00<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>
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</span>How can I control the level of refinement? I tried to pass the flag “-ex56_dm_refine 0” but that didn’t stop the refinement from 8 giving 32 cubes.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I answered this question recently but ex56 clobbers ex56_dm_refine in the convergence loop. I have an MR that prints a warning if you provide a ex56_dm_refine. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* snes/ex56 runs a convergence study and confusingly sets the options manually, thus erasing your -ex56_dm_refine.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* To refine, use -max_conv_its N <3>, this sets the number of steps of refinement. That is, the length of the convergence study<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span>What does -cell 2,2,1 correspond to? <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The initial mesh or mesh_0. The convergence test uniformly refines this mesh. So if you want to refine this twice you could use -cells 8,8,4<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin-left:54pt">So that I can perform a scaling study by changing the input of the flag -cells.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>