<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 5:16 AM 김성익 <<a href="mailto:ksi2443@gmail.com">ksi2443@gmail.com</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"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">Hello,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">I have some questions about pc and mumps_icntl.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 38pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">What’s the difference between adopt
preconditioner by code (for example, PetscCall(PCSetType(pc,PCLU)) and option -pc_type
lu??<br></span></p></div></blockquote><div>If you call KSPSetFromOptions(), then they are the same.</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"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 38pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">
And also, What’s the priority between code pcsettype and option -pc_type ??<br></span></p></div></blockquote><div> PCSetType() will force the change. If you call KSPSetFromOptions() after that, -pc_type will override the change.</div><div><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 dir="ltr">
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 38pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">When I tried to use METIS in MUMPS,
I adopted metis by option (for example, -mat_mumps_icntl_7 5). In this situation,
it is impossible to use metis without pc_type lu. </span></p></div></blockquote><div>This is incorrect. You might still call PCSetType() if you want, but you must call KSPSetFromOptions() after that.</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"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 38pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">However, in my case pc type lu
makes the performance poor. So I don’t want to use lu preconditioner. How can I
do this?</span></p></div></blockquote><div>This statement is incoherent. MUMPS is LU preconditioning, so if you use MUMPS you are using LU.</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">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US">Hyung Kim</span></p></div>
</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>