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    <p>Dear Dave and Matt,</p>
    <p>    I am really dealing with two different use cases in a code
      that will compute a levelset function passing through a large set
      of points. If I had DMSwarmSetMigrateType() and if it were safe to
      switch the migration mode back and forth in the same swarm, this
      would cover all my use cases here. Is it safe to add it back to
      petsc? Details below if you are curious.<br>
    </p>
    <p>1) During preprocessing I am loading a point cloud from disk (in
      whatever order it comes) and need to send the particles to the
      right ranks. Since the background DM is a DMDA I can easily figure
      out the destination rank. This would be covered by your suggestion
      not to attach the DM, except that later I need to locate these
      points with respect to the background cells in order to initialize
      data on the Vecs associated to the DMDA.<br>
    </p>
    <p>2) Then I need to implement a semilagrangian time evolution
      scheme. For this I'd like to send particles around at the "foot of
      characteristic", collect data there and then send them back to the
      originating point. The first migration would be based on particle
      coordinates (DMSwarmMigrate_DMNeighborScatter and the restriction
      to only neighbouring ranks is perfect), while for the second move
      it would be easier to just send them back to the originating rank,
      which I can easily store in an Int field in the swarm. Thus at
      each timestep I'd need to swap migrate types in this swarm
      (DMScatter for moving them to the feet and BASIC to send them
      back).<br>
    </p>
    Thanks
    <p>    Matteo<br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 22/12/22 18:40, Dave May ha scritto:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Hey Matt,</div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu 22. Dec 2022 at
            05:02, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">knepley@gmail.com</a>>
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              <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 6:28 AM Matteo
                Semplice <<a href="mailto:matteo.semplice@uninsubria.it" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">matteo.semplice@uninsubria.it</a>>
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                    <p>Dear all</p>
                    <p>    please ignore my previous email and read this
                      one: I have better localized the problem. Maybe
                      DMSwarmMigrate is designed to migrate particles
                      only to first neighbouring ranks?<br>
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                <div>Yes, I believe that was the design.</div>
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                <div>Dave, is this correct?</div>
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          <div dir="auto">Correct. <span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">DMSwarmMigrate_</span><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">DMNeighborScatter()
              only scatter points to the neighbour ranks - where
              neighbours are defined by the DM provided to represent the
              mesh.</span><br>
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          <div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">DMSwarmMigrate_</span><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px;border-color:rgb(49,49,49);color:rgb(49,49,49)">DMNeighborScatter()
              Is selected by default if you attach a DM.</span><br>
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          <div dir="auto"><font style="color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px">The scatter
                method should be over ridden with </span></font></div>
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          <div dir="auto"><font style="color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px"><span style="word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)">DMSwarmSetMigrateType()</span><br>
              </span></font></div>
          <div dir="auto"><font style="color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px"><span style="word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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          <div dir="auto" style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(0,0,0)!important"><font style="color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px">however it
                appears this method no longer exists.</span></font></div>
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                If one can determine the exact rank where points should
                should be sent and it is not going to be the neighbour
                rank (given by the DM), I would suggest not attaching
                the DM at all.</span></font></div>
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          <div dir="auto"><font style="color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px">However if this
                is not possible and one wanted to scatter to say the
                neighbours neighbours, we will have to add a new
                interface and refactor things a little bit.</span></font></div>
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          <div dir="auto"><font style="color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px">Cheers</span></font></div>
          <div dir="auto"><font style="color:rgb(49,49,49)"><span style="font-size:21px;word-spacing:1px">Dave</span></font></div>
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                <div>  Thanks,</div>
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                <div>    Matt</div>
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                    <div>Il 22/12/22 11:44, Matteo Semplice ha scritto:<br>
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                      <p>Dear everybody,</p>
                      <p>    I have bug a bit into the code and I am
                        able to add more information.<br>
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                      <div>Il 02/12/22 12:48, Matteo Semplice ha
                        scritto:<br>
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                        <div>Hi.</div>
                        <div>I am sorry to take this up again, but
                          further tests show that it's not right yet.<br>
                        </div>
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                        <div>Il 04/11/22 12:48, Matthew Knepley ha
                          scritto:<br>
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                            <div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 7:46
                              AM Matteo Semplice <<a href="mailto:matteo.semplice@uninsubria.it" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">matteo.semplice@uninsubria.it</a>>
                              wrote:<br>
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                                <div> On 04/11/2022 02:43, Matthew
                                  Knepley wrote:<br>
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                                      <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 3, 2022
                                        at 8:36 PM Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">knepley@gmail.com</a>>
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                                            <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct
                                              27, 2022 at 11:57 AM
                                              Semplice Matteo <<a href="mailto:matteo.semplice@uninsubria.it" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">matteo.semplice@uninsubria.it</a>>
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                                                    <div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear
                                                      Petsc developers,</div>
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                                                      I am trying to use
                                                      a DMSwarm to
                                                      locate a cloud of
                                                      points with
                                                      respect to a
                                                      background mesh.
                                                      In the real
                                                      application the
                                                      points will be
                                                      loaded from disk,
                                                      but I have created
                                                      a small demo in
                                                      which</div>
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                                                      <ul style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
                                                        <li style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">each processor
                                                          creates Npart
                                                          particles, all
                                                          within the
                                                          domain covered
                                                          by the mesh,
                                                          but not all in
                                                          the local
                                                          portion of the
                                                          mesh</span></li>
                                                        <li style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">migrate the
                                                          particles</span></li>
                                                      </ul>
                                                      <div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">After
                                                        migration most
                                                        particles are
                                                        not any more in
                                                        the DMSwarm (how
                                                        many and which
                                                        ones seems to
                                                        depend on the
                                                        number of cpus,
                                                        but it never
                                                        happens that all
                                                        particle survive
                                                        the migration
                                                        process).</div>
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                                                      </div>
                                                    </div>
                                                  </div>
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                                              <div>Thanks for sending
                                                this. I found the
                                                problem. Someone has
                                                some overly fancy code
                                                inside DMDA to figure
                                                out the local bounding
                                                box from the
                                                coordinates.</div>
                                              <div>It is broken for
                                                DM_BOUNDARY_GHOSTED, but
                                                we never tested with
                                                this. I will fix it.</div>
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                                        <div><br>
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                                        <div>Okay, I think this fix is
                                          correct</div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>  <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Fpetsc%2Fpetsc%2F-%2Fmerge_requests%2F5802&data=05%7C01%7Cmatteo.semplice%40uninsubria.it%7C49a33e96a2144e96728008dae44394ca%7C9252ed8bdffc401c86ca6237da9991fa%7C0%7C0%7C638073276161185276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sahWnsix2F7anVnUYz2ANyivon%2F6q33geOlaRJD5iEY%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/merge_requests/5802" shash="WbULu4zbTb0ObEO7/tXqwOjZdxvOLSH7Xt8fD04hj/d4KrPB6KzHepAWePS67rXh4hx+6/wiEcIR+NRhSI25VFk5hOCFi5Iq/VZxyb/s7NTYco2J2NiVIjwzUJ06bo/+mz5TlaTfb9H9kdM/tBwGWXGbScKEaz3QnwMQ5vnYW9c=" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/merge_requests/5802</a></div>
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                                        <div>I incorporated your test as
                                          src/dm/impls/da/tests/ex1.c.
                                          Can you take a look and see if
                                          this fixes your issue?</div>
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                                  <p>Yes, we have tested 2d and 3d, with
                                    various combinations of
                                    DM_BOUNDARY_* along different
                                    directions and it works like a
                                    charm.</p>
                                  <p>On a side note, neither <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">DMSwarmViewXDMF</span></span>
                                    nor <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">DMSwarmMigrate</span></span>
                                    seem to be implemented for 1d: I get</p>
                                  <p><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">[0]PETSC
                                        ERROR: No support for this
                                        operation for this object type</span><span style="font-family:monospace;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(178,24,24)">
                                                                                                                                           </span><span style="font-family:monospace;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">
                                      </span>[0]PETSC ERROR: Support not
                                      provided for 1D<br>
                                    </span></p>
                                  <p>However, currently I have no need
                                    for this feature.<br>
                                    <span style="font-family:monospace"></span></p>
                                  <p>Finally, if the test is meant to
                                    stay in the source, you may remove
                                    the call to <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0)">DMSwarmRegisterPetscDatatypeField</span></span>
                                    as in the attached patch.<br>
                                  </p>
                                  <p>Thanks a lot!!</p>
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                              <div>Thanks! Glad it works.</div>
                              <div>
                                <p>   Matt</p>
                              </div>
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                        <p cols="72">There are still problems when not
                          using 1,2 or 4 cpus. Any other number of cpus
                          that I've tested does not work corectly.<br>
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                      <p>I have now modified
                        private_DMDALocatePointsIS_2D_Regular to print
                        out some debugging information. I see that this
                        is called twice during migration, once before
                        and once after DMSwarmMigrate_DMNeighborScatter.
                        If I understand correctly, the second call to
                        private_DMDALocatePointsIS_2D_Regular should be
                        able to locate all particles owned by the rank
                        but it fails for some of them because they have
                        been sent to the wrong rank (despite being well
                        away from process boundaries).<br>
                      </p>
                      <p>For example, running the example
                        src/dm/impls/da/tests/ex1.c with Nx=21 (20x20 Q1
                        elements on [-1,1]X[-1,1]) with 3 processors,</p>
                      <p>- the particles (-0.191,-0.462) and
                        (0.191,-0.462) are sent cpu2 instead of cpu0</p>
                      <p>- those at (-0.287,-0.693)and (0.287,-0.693)
                        are sent to cpu1 instead of cpu0</p>
                      <p>- those at (0.191,0.462) and (-0.191,0.462) are
                        sent to cpu0 instead of cpu2</p>
                      <p>(This is 2d and thus not affected by the 3d
                        issue mentioned yesterday on petsc-dev. Tests
                        were made based on the release branch pulled out
                        this morning, i.e. on commit <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-family:monospace;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(178,104,24)">bebdc8d016f</span></span>).<br>
                      </p>
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                    <p>I see: particles are sent "all around" and not
                      only to the destination rank.</p>
                    <p>Still however, running the example
                      src/dm/impls/da/tests/ex1.c with Nx=21 (20x20 Q1
                      elements on [-1,1]X[-1,1]) with 3 processors,
                      there are 2 particles initially owned by rank2 (at
                      y=-0.6929 and x=+/-0.2870) that are sent only to
                      rank1 and never make it to rank0 and are thus lost
                      in the end since rank1, correctly, discards them.</p>
                    <p>Thanks</p>
                    <p>    Matteo<br>
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                            before they begin their experiments is
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Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
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