[petsc-users] Solutions different after program restart

[Jed Brown]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Niceno Bojan <bojan.niceno at psi.ch> wrote:

> I use a command like this:
>
>  MatSetValues(A, 1, &gi, 1, &gj, &M[i][j], INSERT_VALUES);
>
> Always inserting values, rather than adding.
>
>
> > Did you use -ksp_view_binary and ksp ex10 to check that the system really
> > is identical? Does ksp ex10 give the same output each time you run it?
>
> Not yet.  I am not that prudent with PETSc, I am currently celebrating for
> being able to see residual history :-)
>

Just go build that example, then run it with -f path/to/binaryoutput. It
will load the matrix and vector from the file and solve.


> > Can you send a few iterations of output from -ksp_monitor_true_residual?
>
> Yes, they look like:
>
>  0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 5.321355215818e+01 true resid norm
> 1.650035042618e+01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>  1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.013755144242e+01 true resid norm
> 1.361285352452e+01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 8.250039043366e-01
>  2 KSP preconditioned resid norm 7.629376453731e+00 true resid norm
> 3.184316336783e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.929847702951e-02
>  3 KSP preconditioned resid norm 3.869976235279e+00 true resid norm
> 4.559806478792e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 2.763460387822e-02
>  4 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.889666147602e+00 true resid norm
> 1.422513113059e-01 ||r(i)||/||b|| 8.621108499622e-03
>  5 KSP preconditioned resid norm 9.253616017337e-01 true resid norm
> 1.065191369186e-02 ||r(i)||/||b|| 6.455568164761e-04
>  6 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.759923245260e-01 true resid norm
> 2.662360840276e-02 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.613517756600e-03
>  7 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.492423883098e-01 true resid norm
> 1.216652507263e-02 ||r(i)||/||b|| 7.373494961255e-04
>  8 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.306776196573e-01 true resid norm
> 1.933734977205e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.171935702734e-04
>  9 KSP preconditioned resid norm 7.267055499898e-02 true resid norm
> 9.770926706361e-04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 5.921647997767e-05
>  10 KSP preconditioned resid norm 3.833602982459e-02 true resid norm
> 9.695036607433e-04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 5.875654975214e-05
>  velocity[0] took 10 iterations to reach residual  3.83360e-02
>

Interesting that the true residual is dropping faster than preconditioned
residual. Can you show the output from both runs? Are each individually
reproducible?
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