[petsc-dev] boomerAmg scalability

[Mark F. Adams]

Is your problem unsymmetric?  I don't think this is the problem, it was fixed recently.

If not, can you run with -pc_gamg_verbose and -info and send me the output?

You don't need to set the block size if it is 1.

I have a feeling it has to do with not setting the buffer sizes correctly.  There are some heuristics in there and this needs to be improved.  What kind of discretization are you using?  What order, how many non-zeros per row?  Maybe try the smallest case that you have with more processors.  I have a feeling it is trashing around mallocing stuff in MatSetValues so it just "looks" hung.

Mark

On Jan 4, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Ravi Kannan wrote:

> Hi Mark, Matt,
>  
> We recently downloaded the petsc development version, to test the gamg package.
>  
> This works in serial : we tried for small cases. The parallel case (even with 2 partitions) just hangs. As of now, we have not set any parameters. So I guess that the default parameters are being used.
>  
> Do we need to explicitly set the block size to MatSetBlockSize(mat,1) for a PARALLEL run? Our solver solves U,V,W and P separately.
>  
> Any input on this would be great.
>  
> Thanks,
> Ravi.
>  
> From: petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:petsc-dev-bounces at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Mark F. Adams
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:18 PM
> To: For users of the development version of PETSc
> Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] boomerAmg scalability
>  
>  
> On Dec 15, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> 
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> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Ravi Kannan <rxk at cfdrc.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>  
> This is Ravi Kannan from CFD Research Corporation. Recently, we are experimenting with the BoomerAMG preconditioner for some “stiff” CFD problems. In that regard, all the other standard solver-preconditioner combinations failed for the current CFD problem. The boomer is the only one which is able to provide with “converged” solutions.
>  
> We noticed that the scalability of this boomer preconditioner is really poor. For instance, even with a cell size of 2 million, we cannot scale to even 16 partitions (in contrast, the other solver-preconditioner combinations like the BI-CGS/BJacobi gave good enough scalability).
>  
> Are we missing something? Do we need to use a more latest version of boomer?
>  
> Have you tried -pc_type gamg in petsc-dev?
>  
> For gamg you also want to use MPIAIJ matrices and set the block size MatSetBlockSize(mat,3), for a 3D velocity field, for instance.  You can also try '-pc_gamg_type pa' or '-pc_gamg_type sa'.  "pa", for plain aggregation might be better for CFD problems.
>  
> Mark
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>  
>   Matt
>   
> Thanks,
> Ravi.
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> 
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> -- 
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> -- Norbert Wiener
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