[petsc-dev] Using PCFieldSplitSetIS

Thomas Witkowski thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de
Wed Mar 16 08:57:27 CDT 2011


Matt, it makes the output nicer, but does not help me to understand 
what's going on inside of PETSc:

    Residual norms for fieldsplit_boundary_ solve.
    0 KSP Residual norm 1.790059331071e-04
    1 KSP Residual norm 1.237356212928e-04
    2 KSP Residual norm 7.952220245101e-05
    3 KSP Residual norm 3.502858665398e-05
    4 KSP Residual norm 1.601085190129e-05
    5 KSP Residual norm 8.491161243057e-06
    6 KSP Residual norm 4.778227395989e-06
    7 KSP Residual norm 2.571919352633e-06
    8 KSP Residual norm 1.353979940120e-06
    9 KSP Residual norm 7.408377337496e-07
   10 KSP Residual norm 3.810694345834e-07
   11 KSP Residual norm 1.955889542056e-07
   12 KSP Residual norm 9.938906113920e-08
   13 KSP Residual norm 4.893445675773e-08
   14 KSP Residual norm 2.395128458062e-08
   15 KSP Residual norm 1.246442589657e-08
   16 KSP Residual norm 6.316454504022e-09
   17 KSP Residual norm 3.088668836241e-09
   18 KSP Residual norm 1.593454221996e-09
  0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 5.745043818120e-01 true resid norm 
1.584249437360e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
    Residual norms for fieldsplit_boundary_ solve.
    0 KSP Residual norm 1.790059331000e-04
    1 KSP Residual norm 1.237356237744e-04
    2 KSP Residual norm 7.952220078415e-05
    3 KSP Residual norm 3.502859285561e-05
    4 KSP Residual norm 1.601086485810e-05
    5 KSP Residual norm 8.491169384185e-06
    6 KSP Residual norm 4.778229157872e-06
    7 KSP Residual norm 2.571917112191e-06
    8 KSP Residual norm 1.353977280183e-06
    9 KSP Residual norm 7.408352317360e-07
   10 KSP Residual norm 3.810710583336e-07
   11 KSP Residual norm 1.955898169394e-07
   12 KSP Residual norm 9.938892788465e-08
   13 KSP Residual norm 4.893428546840e-08
   14 KSP Residual norm 2.395120857135e-08
   15 KSP Residual norm 1.246436792784e-08
   16 KSP Residual norm 6.316409779118e-09
   17 KSP Residual norm 3.088649355374e-09
   18 KSP Residual norm 1.593449602302e-09
    Residual norms for fieldsplit_boundary_ solve.
    0 KSP Residual norm 1.593449603155e-09
    1 KSP Residual norm 1.011857676662e-09
    2 KSP Residual norm 5.660892669788e-10
    3 KSP Residual norm 3.046799343903e-10
    4 KSP Residual norm 1.600471399329e-10
    5 KSP Residual norm 8.083216601016e-11
    6 KSP Residual norm 4.308671648345e-11
    7 KSP Residual norm 2.381959817139e-11
    8 KSP Residual norm 1.264839790114e-11
    9 KSP Residual norm 6.435098853282e-12
   10 KSP Residual norm 3.184769579797e-12
   11 KSP Residual norm 1.502201943016e-12
   12 KSP Residual norm 7.099486208425e-13
   13 KSP Residual norm 3.443222176388e-13
   14 KSP Residual norm 1.647843498912e-13
   15 KSP Residual norm 8.208508173926e-14
   16 KSP Residual norm 4.376604355287e-14
   17 KSP Residual norm 2.596069152755e-14
   18 KSP Residual norm 1.335744434252e-14
  1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.608069232839e-13 true resid norm 
1.449869994655e-13 ||r(i)||/||b|| 9.151778504469e-13


So, are there now two or one outer iterations?

Thomas




Matthew Knepley wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Thomas Witkowski 
> <thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de 
> <mailto:thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de>> wrote:
>
>     Jed Brown wrote:
>
>         On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 07:37, Thomas Witkowski
>         <thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de
>         <mailto:thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de>
>         <mailto:thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de
>         <mailto:thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de>>> wrote:
>
>            Thanks for explanations! It works fine in my code. But I
>         have two
>            questions about it, maybe you can help me with them:
>            - To the first, is the LU factorization on block A_00 done
>         only once?
>
>
>         Yes, one way to confirm this is to run with -log_summary and
>         check MatLUFactor{Sym,Num}.
>          
>            - I have run the code with -fieldsplit_1_ksp_monitor to get
>         some
>            more information about the internal solves. I expected to get
>            information about one iterative solver (for solving the Schur
>            complement system), but I got three, all of them need around 20
>            iterations for my example. Could you explain to me what is
>            actually solved there?
>
>
>         I'm going to guess that you still have an outer KSP that (in
>         the global norm, rather than the partitioned norm used inside
>         of splits) has a tighter tolerance, therefore it takes a few
>         outer iterations. If you use loose inner tolerances then the
>         preconditioner becomes nonlinear and you'll need to use FGMRES
>         for the outer. When in doubt, run with -ksp_view and show us
>         the results if you don't understand. Additionally, monitoring
>         inner solves separately can be useful, e.g.
>         -fieldsplit_0_ksp_converged_reason -fieldsplit_1_ksp_monitor
>         -ksp_monitor_true_residual.
>
>     Okay, I run my code with the options "-pc_fieldsplit_type schur
>     -fieldsplit_interior_ksp_type preonly -fieldsplit_interior_pc_type
>     bjacobi -fieldsplit_interior_sub_pc_type lu
>     -fieldsplit_boundary_ksp_monitor -ksp_monitor_true_residual
>     -fieldsplit_interior_ksp_converged_reason". The splits are named
>     "interior" and "boundary". The ksp output is as follows:
>
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       Residual norms for fieldsplit_boundary_ solve.
>       0 KSP Residual norm 1.790059331071e-04
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       1 KSP Residual norm 1.237356212928e-04
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       2 KSP Residual norm 7.952220245101e-05
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       3 KSP Residual norm 3.502858665398e-05
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       4 KSP Residual norm 1.601085190129e-05
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       5 KSP Residual norm 8.491161243057e-06
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       6 KSP Residual norm 4.778227395989e-06
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       7 KSP Residual norm 2.571919352633e-06
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       8 KSP Residual norm 1.353979940120e-06
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       9 KSP Residual norm 7.408377337496e-07
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      10 KSP Residual norm 3.810694345834e-07
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      11 KSP Residual norm 1.955889542056e-07
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      12 KSP Residual norm 9.938906113920e-08
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      13 KSP Residual norm 4.893445675773e-08
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      14 KSP Residual norm 2.395128458062e-08
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      15 KSP Residual norm 1.2464425896 <tel:1.2464425896>57e-08
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      16 KSP Residual norm 6.316454504022e-09
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      17 KSP Residual norm 3.088668836241e-09
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      18 KSP Residual norm 1.593454221996e-09
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>     [0]  Petsc-Iteration 0: 0.574504
>      0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 5.745043818120e-01 true resid
>     norm 1.584249437360e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       Residual norms for fieldsplit_boundary_ solve.
>       0 KSP Residual norm 1.790059331000e-04
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       1 KSP Residual norm 1.237356237744e-04
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       2 KSP Residual norm 7.952220078415e-05
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       3 KSP Residual norm 3.502859285561e-05
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       4 KSP Residual norm 1.601086485810e-05
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       5 KSP Residual norm 8.491169384185e-06
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       6 KSP Residual norm 4.778229157872e-06
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       7 KSP Residual norm 2.571917112191e-06
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       8 KSP Residual norm 1.353977280183e-06
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       9 KSP Residual norm 7.408352317360e-07
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      10 KSP Residual norm 3.810710583336e-07
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      11 KSP Residual norm 1.955898169394e-07
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      12 KSP Residual norm 9.938892788465e-08
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      13 KSP Residual norm 4.893428546840e-08
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      14 KSP Residual norm 2.395120857135e-08
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      15 KSP Residual norm 1.2464367927 <tel:1.2464367927>84e-08
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      16 KSP Residual norm 6.316409779118e-09
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      17 KSP Residual norm 3.088649355374e-09
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      18 KSP Residual norm 1.593449602302e-09
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       Residual norms for fieldsplit_boundary_ solve.
>       0 KSP Residual norm 1.593449603155e-09
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       1 KSP Residual norm 1.011857676662e-09
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       2 KSP Residual norm 5.660892669788e-10
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       3 KSP Residual norm 3.046799343903e-10
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       4 KSP Residual norm 1.6004713993 <tel:1.6004713993>29e-10
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       5 KSP Residual norm 8.083216601016e-11
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       6 KSP Residual norm 4.308671648345e-11
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       7 KSP Residual norm 2.381959817139e-11
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       8 KSP Residual norm 1.264839790114e-11
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>       9 KSP Residual norm 6.435098853282e-12
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      10 KSP Residual norm 3.184769579797e-12
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      11 KSP Residual norm 1.5022019430 <tel:1.5022019430>16e-12
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      12 KSP Residual norm 7.099486208425e-13
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      13 KSP Residual norm 3.443222176388e-13
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      14 KSP Residual norm 1.6478434989 <tel:1.6478434989>12e-13
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      15 KSP Residual norm 8.208508173926e-14
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      16 KSP Residual norm 4.376604355287e-14
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      17 KSP Residual norm 2.596069152755e-14
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      18 KSP Residual norm 1.335744434252e-14
>       Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>      1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.608069232839e-13 true resid
>     norm 1.449869994655e-13 ||r(i)||/||b|| 9.151778504469e-13
>
>     I have no idea how to interpret this output! Could you help me
>     with it?
>
>
> Get rid of -fieldsplit_interior_ksp_converged_reason. It is confusing 
> things. Then you will see
> the outer iteration and the inner boundary iteration which is indented.
>
>    Matt
>  
>
>
>     Thomas
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their 
> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which 
> their experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener




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