[petsc-dev] More on FV overlap cells and Fortran

John O'Sullivan jp.osullivan at auckland.ac.nz
Fri Mar 13 04:56:42 CDT 2015


Hi Matt,

We're getting there with our parallel Fortran FV code. But here's another question about the best way to do things. Another simpleTest2 code is attached to demonstrate the question and below is a copy of the relevant part:

<mailto:petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov>! We worked out its important not to write to the parts of arrays that correspond to overlap cells.
! Following ex11 it would be done something like this using C:
!
! ierr = DMPlexPointGlobalRef(dm,c,x,&xc);CHKERRQ(ierr);
! if (xc) {ierr = (*mod->solution)(mod,0.0,cg->centroid,xc,mod->solutionctx);CHKERRQ(ierr);}
!
! And according to the documentation on DMPlexPointGlobalRef xc would be returned as null for
! the overlap blocks that don't belong to the processor
!
! We can achieve the same using the ghost labels on the overlap cells but is this a good
! idea? We'd prefer to follow the standard approach ie in ex11 but I don't think there's a
! clean way to do this in fortran as we can't pass pointers to structures...
! Could it be done with DMPlexPointGlobalRef? If so, any ideas?

  do c = start_cell, end_interior_cell-1
! ???  call DMPlexPointGlobalRef(dm, c, localx, someref)???
    call DMLabelGetValue(label, c, ghost, ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
    if (ghost < 0) then
       call PetscSectionGetOffset(solution_section, c, cell_offset, ierr); CHKERRQ(ierr)
       cell_offset = cell_offset + 1
       localx(cell_offset) = 100.0
    end if
 end do

Cheers!
John

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From: Matthew Knepley [mailto:knepley at gmail.com<mailto:knepley at gmail.com>]
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2015 4:44 a.m.
To: John O'Sullivan
Cc: petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Simple Test example not working in parallel for DMPlex/FV/overlap/ghost cells...

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:19 AM, John O'Sullivan <jp.osullivan at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:jp.osullivan at auckland.ac.nz>> wrote:
Hi Matt,

Attached is a simple test program where I'm loading the simpleblock-100.exo and trying to set up a grid with closed boundaries on all the outer faces.

Just so I understand what you want. You do not want any ghost cells made around the outer boundary. What you have will do that.

We'd like to do it this way so we can use the same sort of architecture as in PetscFVM to skip ghost faces when calculating fluxes (like you suggested in your response yesterday)

Note that now, it will also mark the outer boundary faces as ghosts because they have no partner cell.

It works fine on a single processor but when we run it on 2 processors there's an indexing error when trying to create a matrix. There's obviously something wrong with the way we're setting up the dm but I don't know what it is? Or perrhaps we're not allowed to use DMPlexConstructGhostCells in this way? Also I was surprised by the values given for end_interior_cell on each processor as it seems to include the overlap cells which is not what I expected?

This is a bug in my latest preallocation push. Thanks for finding it. I pushed a fix for this, and for many Fortran things
to next. I am including my modified source so that everything is deallocated correctly (run with -malloc_test).

It seems to work for me now. Let me know if you have problems.

  Thanks,

    Matt

One last thing, the FORTRAN interface for DMPlexCreateLabel was missing so I added it into zplexlabel.c which works fine but I'm not sure if this was the right way to do it. My version is attached.

The full output from the program for two processors is below.

Cheers
John

(ps Is there a way to make DMView output the Labels information for all processors?)

$ mpirun -n 2 simpleTest2
DM Object:Parallel Mesh 2 MPI processes
  type: plex
Parallel Mesh in 3 dimensions:
  0-cells: 12 16
  1-cells: 20 28
  2-cells: 11 16
  3-cells: 2 3
Labels:
  ClosedBoundaries: 0 strata of sizes ()
  Face Sets: 3 strata of sizes (2, 2, 5)
  Cell Sets: 1 strata of sizes (2)
  depth: 4 strata of sizes (12, 20, 11, 2)
DM Object: 2 MPI processes
  type: plex
DM_0x7f91c1d27ff0_0 in 3 dimensions:
  0-cells: 12 16
  1-cells: 20 28
  2-cells: 11 16
  3-cells: 2 (0) 3 (0)
Labels:
  ghost: 2 strata of sizes (1, 10)
  vtk: 1 strata of sizes (1)
  Cell Sets: 1 strata of sizes (2)
  Face Sets: 3 strata of sizes (2, 2, 5)
  ClosedBoundaries: 0 strata of sizes ()
           0           3           3          19          35
  depth: 4 strata of sizes (12, 20, 11, 2)
           0           2           2          14          25
[1]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------
[1]PETSC ERROR: Argument out of range
[1]PETSC ERROR: Section point -1 should be in [1, 3)
[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Argument out of range
[0]PETSC ERROR: Section point -3 should be in [0, 1)
[0]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html for trouble shooting.
[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development GIT revision: v3.5.3-2945-g6900bc9  GIT Date: 2015-03-10 18:15:26 -0500
[0]PETSC ERROR: simpleTest2 on a arch-darwin-c-debug named Johns-MacBook-Air.local by jposunz Thu Mar 12 22:01:26 2015
[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --download-fblaslapack --useThreads=0 --download-triangle --download-netcdf --download-exodusii --download-hdf5 --download-ptscotch --download-chaco
[0]PETSC ERROR: #1 PetscSectionGetDof() line 499 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/vec/is/utils/vsectionis.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: #2 DMPlexUpdateAllocation_Static() line 609 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plexpreallocate.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: #3 DMPlexPreallocateOperator() line 763 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plexpreallocate.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: #4 DMCreateMatrix_Plex() line 746 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plex.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: [1]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html for trouble shooting.
[1]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development GIT revision: v3.5.3-2945-g6900bc9  GIT Date: 2015-03-10 18:15:26 -0500
[1]PETSC ERROR: simpleTest2 on a arch-darwin-c-debug named Johns-MacBook-Air.local by jposunz Thu Mar 12 22:01:26 2015
#5 DMCreateMatrix() line 958 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/dm/interface/dm.c
[1]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --download-fblaslapack --useThreads=0 --download-triangle --download-netcdf --download-exodusii --download-hdf5 --download-ptscotch --download-chaco
[1]PETSC ERROR: #1 PetscSectionGetDof() line 499 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/vec/is/utils/vsectionis.c
[1]PETSC ERROR: #2 DMPlexUpdateAllocation_Static() line 609 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plexpreallocate.c
[1]PETSC ERROR: #3 DMPlexPreallocateOperator() line 763 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plexpreallocate.c
[1]PETSC ERROR: #4 DMCreateMatrix_Plex() line 746 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plex.c
[1]PETSC ERROR: #5 DMCreateMatrix() line 958 in /Users/jposunz/projects/src/petsc/src/dm/interface/dm.c
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 1 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
with errorcode 63.

NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on
exactly when Open MPI kills them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Department of Engineering Science

University of Auckland, New Zealand

email: jp.osullivan at auckland.ac.nz<https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/petsc-dev>

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From: Matthew Knepley [knepley at gmail.com<mailto:knepley at gmail.com>]
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2015 3:06 a.m.
To: John O'Sullivan
Cc: petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] DMPlex, Finite Volume, overlap and ghost cells...
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:34 AM, John O'Sullivan <jp.osullivan at auckland.ac.nz<mailto:jp.osullivan at auckland.ac.nz>> wrote:
Hi all,

I've managed to get myself very confused about how to use DMPlex correctly for a distributed Finite Volume grid...

My understanding was that along partition boundaries the ghost cells are used store cell information from neighbouring partitions so that the fluxes can be calculated.

Though debugging through ex11 it seems like overlap is set equal to 1?

I'm solving a simple pressure-diffusion equation on a 1D column (from an exo grid) which works fine on a single processor but not in parallel. I'm certainly not setting things up right or labeling correctly...

Could someone please explain the most appropriate way to set up and label the DM, whether the overlap should be 0 or 1 and whether ghost cells should be placed on internal partition boundaries.

Yes, for FV the partition overlap should be 1, as it is in ex11. This means that when the partition happens, we will
put a layer of cells on the other side of partition boundaries,

When DMPlexConstructGhostCells() is called, it will put ghost cells on the other side of the true boundary. Both
kinds of cells will be separated from interior cells by the DMPlexGetHybridBounds(&cMax), where cMax is the
first ghost cell.

Now you still need a way to get rid of faces between ghost cells (which only occur in cells across a partition boundary).
To do this, you use the "ghost" label we make during partitioning:

    ierr = DMPlexGetLabel(dm, "ghost", &ghostLabel);CHKERRQ(ierr);
    ierr = DMLabelGetValue(ghostLabel, face, &ghost);CHKERRQ(ierr);
    if (ghost >= 0) continue;

What exactly is going wrong?

   Matt

Thanks!
John


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University of Auckland, New Zealand

email: jp.osullivan at auckland.ac.nz<https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/petsc-dev>

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