[petsc-users] Rock & Hard Place with SuperLU

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Brian Helenbrook wrote:

> Dear Petsc-Users-List,
> 
> I recently upgraded to petsc3.3-p5 from petsc3.2-p7 and the results from my code have changed.  I am using superLU with the following options:
> 
> -ksp_type preonly -pc_type lu -pc_factor_mat_solver_package superlu_dist
> 
> Everything was working with petsc3.2 but now I get totally different answers and the iteration doesn't converge.   My build configuration is 
> 
> ./config/configure.py --prefix=${HOME}/Packages --with-fortran=0  --download-superlu_dist=1 --with-x=0 --download-parmetis=1 --download-metis=1 --with-mpi-dir=${HOME}/Packages --with-valgrind-dir=${HOME}/Packages
> 
> I am running on OS X 10.8.2 with openmpi-1.6.3.
> 
> I have run valgrind on my code and it is clean (except for start-up issues with mpi which occur before my code is entered.)  
> 
> I'm not very sure how to go about debugging this.   What I've tried is to re-install pets-3.2-p7, but now I am having trouble getting that to build:

remove option --download-metis=1. Its not needed for petsc-3.2

satish


> 
> ./config/configure.py --prefix=${HOME}/Packages --with-fortran=0  --download-superlu_dist=1 --with-x=0 --download-parmetis=1 --download-metis=1 --with-mpi-dir=${HOME}/Packages --with-valgrind-dir=${HOME}/Packages
> ===============================================================================
>              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system                       
> ===============================================================================
> ===============================================================================
> Compiling & installing Metis; this may take several minutes               ===============================================================================                                                                                 *******************************************************************************
>          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for details):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error running make on Metis: Could not execute "cd /Users/bhelenbr/Packages/petsc-3.2-p7/externalpackages/metis-4.0.3 && make clean && make library && make minstall && make clean":
> 
> 
> Any ideas what direction to go with this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Helenbrook
> Associate Professor
> 362 CAMP
> Mech. and Aero. Eng. Dept.
> Clarkson University
> Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
> 
> work: 315-268-2204
> fax: 315-268-6695
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