[petsc-dev] odd log behavior

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 17:40:58 CDT 2022


On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 6:12 PM Justin Chang <jychang48 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think N/A (not applicable) would be a better message than NaN. Prior to
> this mail, even I thought I broke something with these NaN's
>

We would need some logic to check for NaN and change the format.

   Matt


> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 2:49 PM Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:03 PM Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, Nans are a clear sign that something is very wrong.
>>>
>>
>> Barry chose them so that it could not be mistaken for an actual number.
>>
>>    Matt
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:52 AM Jacob Faibussowitsch <
>>> jacob.fai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is an automatic warning that shows when you do run with
>>>> `-log_view_gpu_time`, but perhaps there should also be an automatic warning
>>>> when *not* running with it. It is unfortunate that NaN is the value printed
>>>> as this implies a bug but AFAIK it is unavoidable (Barry can say more on
>>>> this though).
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jacob Faibussowitsch
>>>> (Jacob Fai - booss - oh - vitch)
>>>>
>>>> > On Apr 26, 2022, at 09:48, Jose E. Roman <jroman at dsic.upv.es> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > You have to add -log_view_gpu_time
>>>> > See https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/merge_requests/5056
>>>> >
>>>> > Jose
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >> El 26 abr 2022, a las 16:39, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> escribió:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I'm seeing this on Perlmutter with Kokkos-CUDA. Nans in most log
>>>> timing data except the two 'Solve' lines.
>>>> >> Just cg/jacobi on snes/ex56.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Any ideas?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> VecTDot                2 1.0   nan nan 1.20e+01 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0  -nan    -nan      0 0.00e+00    0
>>>> 0.00e+00 100
>>>> >> VecNorm                2 1.0   nan nan 1.00e+01 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0  -nan    -nan      0 0.00e+00    0
>>>> 0.00e+00 100
>>>> >> VecCopy                2 1.0   nan nan 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0  -nan    -nan      0 0.00e+00    0
>>>> 0.00e+00  0
>>>> >> VecSet                 5 1.0   nan nan 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0  -nan    -nan      0 0.00e+00    0
>>>> 0.00e+00  0
>>>> >> VecAXPY                4 1.0   nan nan 2.40e+01 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   1  0  0  0  0  -nan    -nan      0 0.00e+00    0
>>>> 0.00e+00 100
>>>> >> VecPointwiseMult       1 1.0   nan nan 3.00e+00 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0  -nan    -nan      0 0.00e+00    0
>>>> 0.00e+00 100
>>>> >> KSPSetUp               1 1.0   nan nan 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0  -nan    -nan      0 0.00e+00    0
>>>> 0.00e+00  0
>>>> >> KSPSolve               1 1.0 4.0514e-04 1.0 5.50e+01 1.0 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00 0.0e+00  1  0  0  0  0   2  0  0  0  0     0    -nan      0
>>>> 0.00e+00    0 0.00e+00 100
>>>> >> SNESSolve              1 1.0 2.2128e-02 1.0 5.55e+05 1.0 0.0e+00
>>>> 0.0e+00 0.0e+00 72 56  0  0  0 100100  0  0  0    25    -nan      0
>>>> 0.00e+00    0 0.00e+00  0
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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>> <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
>>
>

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