<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>I am using KSPGMRES.</div><div><br></div><div>I was surprised to see DIVERGED_BREAKDOWN as well, which is why I thought there could be some grid issues. <br></div><div><br></div><div>However, other preconditioners were able to retrieve a satisfactory solution (PCGAMG, PCGASM, PCLU MUMPS).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is there maybe a problem size for which boomerAMG has decreased performance? I am dealing with problem sizes of 2 million to 20 million points for reference. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I tried out PCGAMG and it seems to be working much better than boomerAMG, so thank you so much for your suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>-Alfredo<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 1:32 PM Barry Smith <<a href="mailto:bsmith@petsc.dev">bsmith@petsc.dev</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div> What KSP are you using? DIVERGED_BREAKDOWN is very rare for KSPGMRES. If you are using one of its lesser cousins like bcgs you might consider switching to bcgsl or gmres.<div><br></div><div> I assume because of boundary conditions or the discretization you do not have symmetric positive definite and thus cannot use CG.</div><div><br></div><div> Barry</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 12, 2022, at 2:00 PM, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 1:38 PM Alfredo J Duarte Gomez <<a href="mailto:aduarteg@utexas.edu" target="_blank">aduarteg@utexas.edu</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"><div dir="ltr"><div>Good morning PETSC users,</div><div><br></div><div>I have a current solver that requires the solution of a Laplace equation to be reused for all future time steps.</div><div><br></div><div>The configuration is axisymmetric with Dirichlet BCs at the top and bottom boundaries, and Zero Neumman conditions at the axis and far field. The grid is curvilinear and structured. <br></div><div><br></div><div>So far I have been using PCHYPRE boomeramg as the preconditioner, which often works well, but I have also experienced DIVERGED_BREAKDOWN on many occasions. When I use direct solver PCMUMPS it always produces a satisfactory answer, which gives me confidence that the solution exists for the given grid in all these configurations where boomeramg fails.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do not know why Hypre is breaking down. Did you try ML or GAMG? They are easier to diagnose I think.</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>I am looking for recommendations on other preconditioners to try in this problem that can produce a solution faster than PCMUMPS, or recommendations on which parameters to adjust on boomeramg.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,<br></div><div><br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Alfredo Duarte</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Graduate Research Assistant</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The University of Texas at Austin</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><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>
</div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Alfredo Duarte</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Graduate Research Assistant</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The University of Texas at Austin</font></div></div></div></div></div>