[petsc-dev] problem with hypre with '--with-openmp=1'

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jun 26 12:05:10 CDT 2018


I wonder if these jobs are scheduled in such a way so that they are not oversubscribed.

i.e number_mpi_jobs_per_node * number_of_openmp_threads_per_node <= no_of_cores_per_node

Satish

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Mark Adams wrote:

> Interesting, I am seeing the same thing with ksp/ex56 (elasticity) with
> 30^3 grid on each process. One process runs fine (1.5 sec) but 8 processes
> with 30^3 on each process took 156 sec.
> 
> And, PETSc's log_view is running extremely slow. I have the total time
> (156) but each event is taking like a minute or more to come out.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:13 AM Junchao Zhang <jczhang at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:19 AM Junchao Zhang <jczhang at mcs.anl.gov>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mark,
> >>>   Your email reminded me my recent experiments. My PETSc was configured --with-openmp=1.
> >>> With hypre, my job ran out of time. That was on an Argonne Xeon cluster.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Interesting. I tested on Cori's Haswell nodes and it looked fine. I did
> >> not time it but seemed OK.
> >>
> >>
> >>>   I repeated the experiments on Cori's Haswell nodes.  --with-openmp=1,
> >>> "Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_RTOL iterations 5". But it took
> >>> very long time (10 mins). Without --with-openmp=1, it took less than 1
> >>> second.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Humm. I seemed to run OK on Cori's Haswell nodes. Where you running a
> >> significant sized job? I was test small serial runs.
> >>
> >
> >  I ran with 27 processors and each had 30^3 unknowns.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> --Junchao Zhang
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 3:33 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We are using KNL (Cori) and hypre is not working when configured
> >>>> with  '--with-openmp=1', even when not using threads (as far as I can tell,
> >>>> I never use threads).
> >>>>
> >>>> Hypre is not converging, for instance with an optimized build:
> >>>>
> >>>> srun -n 1 ./ex56 -pc_type hypre -ksp_monitor -ksp_converged_reason
> >>>> -ksp_type cg -pc_hypre_type boomeramg
> >>>> OMP: Warning #239: KMP_AFFINITY: granularity=fine will be used.
> >>>>   0 KSP Residual norm 7.366251922394e+22
> >>>>   1 KSP Residual norm 3.676434682799e+22
> >>>> Linear solve did not converge due to DIVERGED_INDEFINITE_PC iterations 2
> >>>>
> >>>> Interestingly in debug mode it almost looks good but it is dying:
> >>>>
> >>>> 05:09 nid02516 maint *=
> >>>> ~/petsc_install/petsc/src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials$ make
> >>>> PETSC_DIR=/global/homes/m/madams/petsc_install/petsc-cori-knl-dbg64-intel-omp
> >>>> PETSC_ARCH="" run
> >>>> srun -n 1 ./ex56 -pc_type hypre -ksp_monitor -ksp_converged_reason
> >>>> -ksp_type cg -pc_hypre_type boomeramg
> >>>> OMP: Warning #239: KMP_AFFINITY: granularity=fine will be used.
> >>>>   0 KSP Residual norm 7.882081712007e+02
> >>>>   1 KSP Residual norm 2.500214073037e+02
> >>>>   2 KSP Residual norm 3.371746347713e+01
> >>>>   3 KSP Residual norm 2.918759396143e+00
> >>>>   4 KSP Residual norm 9.006505495017e-01
> >>>> Linear solve did not converge due to DIVERGED_INDEFINITE_PC iterations 5
> >>>>
> >>>> This test runs fine on Xeon nodes. I assume that Hypre has been tested
> >>>> on KNL. GAMG runs fine, of coarse and the initial residual is similar to
> >>>> this debug run.
> >>>>
> >>>> Could PETSc be messing up the matrix conversion to hypre
> >>>> '--with-openmp=1' ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Any ideas?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Mark
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >
> 



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