PETSc CG solver uses more iterations than other CG solver

Lisandro Dalcin dalcinl at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 11:05:08 CST 2007


On 3/9/07, Knut Erik Teigen <knutert at stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
> To solve the Navier-Stokes equations, I use an explicit Runge-Kutta
> method with Chorin's projection method,
> so a Poisson equation with von Neumann boundary conditions for the
> pressure has to be solved at every time-step.

All boundary conditions are Neumann type? In that case, please try to
run your program with the following command line option:

-ksp_constant_null_space

and let me know if this corrected your problem.


The equation system is
> positive definite, so I use the CG solver with the ICC preconditioner.
> The problem is that the PETSc solver seems to need a lot more iterations
> to reach the solution than another CG solver I'm using. On a small test
> problem(a rising bubble) with a 60x40 grid, the PETSc solver needs over
> 1000 iterations on average, while the other solver needs less than 100.
> I am using KSPSetInitialGuessNonzero, without this the number of
> iterations is even higher.
> I have also tried applying PETSc to a similar problem, solving the
> Poisson equation with von Neumann boundaries and a forcing function of
> f=sin(pi * x)+sin(pi *y). For this problem, the number of iterations is
> almost exactly the same for PETSc and the other solver.
>
> Does anyone know what the problem might be? Any help is greatly
> appreciated. I've included the -ksp_view of one of the time steps
> and the -log_summary below.
>
> Regards,
> Knut Erik Teigen
> MSc student
> Norwegian University of Science and Technology
>
> Output from -ksp_view:
>
> KSP Object:
>   type: cg
>   maximum iterations=10000
>   tolerances:  relative=1e-06, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>   left preconditioning
> PC Object:
>   type: icc
>     ICC: 0 levels of fill
>     ICC: factor fill ratio allocated 1
>     ICC: factor fill ratio needed 0.601695
>          Factored matrix follows
>         Matrix Object:
>           type=seqsbaij, rows=2400, cols=2400
>           total: nonzeros=7100, allocated nonzeros=7100
>               block size is 1
>   linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>   Matrix Object:
>     type=seqaij, rows=2400, cols=2400
>     total: nonzeros=11800, allocated nonzeros=12000
>       not using I-node routines
> Poisson converged after 1403 iterations
>
> Output from -log_summary
>
> ---------------------------------------------- PETSc Performance
> Summary: ----------------------------------------------
>
> ./run on a gcc-ifc-d named iept0415 with 1 processor, by knutert Fri Mar
> 9 17:06:05 2007
> Using Petsc Release Version 2.3.2, Patch 8, Tue Jan  2 14:33:59 PST 2007
> HG revision: ebeddcedcc065e32fc252af32cf1d01ed4fc7a80
>
>                          Max       Max/Min        Avg      Total
> Time (sec):           5.425e+02      1.00000   5.425e+02
> Objects:              7.000e+02      1.00000   7.000e+02
> Flops:                6.744e+10      1.00000   6.744e+10  6.744e+10
> Flops/sec:            1.243e+08      1.00000   1.243e+08  1.243e+08
> Memory:               4.881e+05      1.00000              4.881e+05
> MPI Messages:         0.000e+00      0.00000   0.000e+00  0.000e+00
> MPI Message Lengths:  0.000e+00      0.00000   0.000e+00  0.000e+00
> MPI Reductions:       1.390e+03      1.00000
>
> Flop counting convention: 1 flop = 1 real number operation of type
> (multiply/divide/add/subtract)
>                             e.g., VecAXPY() for real vectors of length N
> --> 2N flops
>                             and VecAXPY() for complex vectors of length
> N --> 8N flops
>
> Summary of Stages:   ----- Time ------  ----- Flops -----  --- Messages
> ---  -- Message Lengths --  -- Reductions --
>                         Avg     %Total     Avg     %Total   counts   %
> Total     Avg         %Total   counts   %Total
>  0:      Main Stage: 5.4246e+02 100.0%  6.7437e+10 100.0%  0.000e+00
> 0.0%  0.000e+00        0.0%  1.390e+03 100.0%
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> See the 'Profiling' chapter of the users' manual for details on
> interpreting output.
> Phase summary info:
>    Count: number of times phase was executed
>    Time and Flops/sec: Max - maximum over all processors
>                        Ratio - ratio of maximum to minimum over all
> processors
>    Mess: number of messages sent
>    Avg. len: average message length
>    Reduct: number of global reductions
>    Global: entire computation
>    Stage: stages of a computation. Set stages with PetscLogStagePush()
> and PetscLogStagePop().
>       %T - percent time in this phase         %F - percent flops in this
> phase
>       %M - percent messages in this phase     %L - percent message
> lengths in this phase
>       %R - percent reductions in this phase
>    Total Mflop/s: 10e-6 * (sum of flops over all processors)/(max time
> over all processors)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>       ##########################################################
>       #                                                        #
>       #                          WARNING!!!                    #
>       #                                                        #
>       #   This code was compiled with a debugging option,      #
>       #   To get timing results run config/configure.py        #
>       #   using --with-debugging=no, the performance will      #
>       #   be generally two or three times faster.              #
>       #                                                        #
>       ##########################################################
>
>
>
>
>       ##########################################################
>       #                                                        #
>       #                          WARNING!!!                    #
>       #                                                        #
>       #   This code was run without the PreLoadBegin()         #
>       #   macros. To get timing results we always recommend    #
>       #   preloading. otherwise timing numbers may be          #
>       #   meaningless.                                         #
>       ##########################################################
>
>
> Event                Count      Time (sec)     Flops/sec
> --- Global ---  --- Stage ---   Total
>                    Max Ratio  Max     Ratio   Max  Ratio  Mess   Avg len
> Reduct  %T %F %M %L %R  %T %F %M %L %R Mflop/s
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --- Event Stage 0: Main Stage
>
> VecDot           1668318 1.0 1.9186e+01 1.0 4.17e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  4 12  0  0  0   4 12  0  0  0   417
> VecNorm           835191 1.0 1.0935e+01 1.0 3.67e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  2  6  0  0  0   2  6  0  0  0   367
> VecCopy              688 1.0 1.6126e-02 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
> VecAXPY          1667630 1.0 2.4141e+01 1.0 3.32e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  4 12  0  0  0   4 12  0  0  0   332
> VecAYPX           833815 1.0 1.9062e+01 1.0 2.10e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  4  6  0  0  0   4  6  0  0  0   210
> VecAssemblyBegin     688 1.0 8.5354e-04 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
> VecAssemblyEnd       688 1.0 7.8177e-04 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
> MatMult           834503 1.0 1.5044e+02 1.0 1.18e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00 28 26  0  0  0  28 26  0  0  0   118
> MatSolve          835191 1.0 1.8130e+02 1.0 1.42e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00 33 38  0  0  0  33 38  0  0  0   142
> MatCholFctrNum         1 1.0 1.1630e-03 1.0 2.06e+06 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     2
> MatICCFactorSym        1 1.0 2.9588e-04 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 2.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
> MatAssemblyBegin     688 1.0 2.6343e-03 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
> MatAssemblyEnd       688 1.0 1.0964e-01 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
> MatGetOrdering         1 1.0 2.6798e-04 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 2.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
> KSPSetup               1 1.0 2.7585e-04 1.0 0.00e+00 0.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 6.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     0
> KSPSolve             688 1.0 4.2809e+02 1.0 1.58e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 1.4e+03 79100  0  0100  79100  0  0100   158
> PCSetUp                1 1.0 1.7900e-03 1.0 1.34e+06 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 4.0e+00  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0  0     1
> PCApply           835191 1.0 1.8864e+02 1.0 1.36e+08 1.0 0.0e+00 0.0e+00
> 0.0e+00 35 38  0  0  0  35 38  0  0  0   136
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Memory usage is given in bytes:
>
> Object Type          Creations   Destructions   Memory  Descendants'
> Mem.
>
> --- Event Stage 0: Main Stage
>
>            Index Set     2              2      19640     0
>                  Vec   694            693     299376     0
>               Matrix     2              2      56400     0
>        Krylov Solver     1              1         36     0
>       Preconditioner     1              1        108     0
> ========================================================================================================================
> Average time to get PetscTime(): 2.86102e-07
> OptionTable: -ksp_type cg
> OptionTable: -log_summary -ksp_view
> OptionTable: -pc_type icc
> Compiled without FORTRAN kernels
> Compiled with full precision matrices (default)
> sizeof(short) 2 sizeof(int) 4 sizeof(long) 4 sizeof(void*) 4
> sizeof(PetscScalar) 8
> Configure run at: Thu Mar  8 11:54:22 2007
> Configure options: --with-cc=gcc --with-fc=ifort
> --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --download-mpich=1 --with-debugging=1
> --with-shared=0
> -----------------------------------------
> Libraries compiled on Thu Mar  8 12:08:22 CET 2007 on iept0415
> Machine characteristics: Linux iept0415 2.6.16.21-0.8-default #1 Mon Jul
> 3 18:25:39 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Using PETSc directory: /opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8
> Using PETSc arch: gcc-ifc-debug
> -----------------------------------------
> Using C compiler: gcc -fPIC -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing
> -g3
> Using Fortran compiler: ifort -fPIC -g
> -----------------------------------------
> Using include paths: -I/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8
> -I/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/bmake/gcc-ifc-debug -I/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/include
> -I/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/externalpackages/mpich2-1.0.4p1/gcc-ifc-debug/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> ------------------------------------------
> Using C linker: gcc -fPIC -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -g3
> Using Fortran linker: ifort -fPIC -g
> Using libraries: -Wl,-rpath,/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/lib/gcc-ifc-debug
> -L/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/lib/gcc-ifc-debug -lpetscts -lpetscsnes -lpetscksp
> -lpetscdm -lpetscmat -lpetscvec -lpetsc
> -Wl,-rpath,/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/externalpackages/mpich2-1.0.4p1/gcc-ifc-debug/lib -L/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/externalpackages/mpich2-1.0.4p1/gcc-ifc-debug/lib -lmpich -lnsl -lrt -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -Wl,-rpath,/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/externalpackages/fblaslapack/gcc-ifc-debug -L/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/externalpackages/fblaslapack/gcc-ifc-debug -lflapack -Wl,-rpath,/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/externalpackages/fblaslapack/gcc-ifc-debug -L/opt/petsc-2.3.2-p8/externalpackages/fblaslapack/gcc-ifc-debug -lfblas -lm -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../.. -L/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../.. -ldl -lgcc_s -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i5!
> 86-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../.. -Wl,-rpath,/opt/intel/fc/9.1.036/lib -L/opt/intel/fc/9.1.036/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/ -L/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/ -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../ -L/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../ -lifport -lifcore -limf -lm -lipgo -lirc -lirc_s -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../.. -lm  -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../.. -L/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../.. -ldl -lgcc_s -ldl
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-- 
Lisandro Dalcín
---------------
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