[petsc-users] Problem with AMG packages

Pierre Jolivet jolivet at ann.jussieu.fr
Tue Oct 8 16:46:29 CDT 2013


Please find the log for BoomerAMG, ML and GAMG attached. The set up for
GAMG doesn't look so bad compared to the other packages, so I'm wondering
what is going on with those ?

>
>   We need the output from running with -log_summary -pc_mg_log
>
>    Also you can run with PETSc's AMG called GAMG (run with -pc_type gamg)
> This will give the most useful information about where it is spending
> the time.
>
>
>    Barry
>
>
> On Oct 8, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Pierre Jolivet <jolivet at ann.jussieu.fr> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I'm trying to compare linear solvers for a simple Poisson equation in
>> 3D.
>> I thought that MG was the way to go, but looking at my log, the
>> performance looks abysmal (I know that the matrices are way too small
>> but
>> if I go bigger, it just never performs a single iteration ..). Even
>> though
>> this is neither the BoomerAMG nor the ML mailing list, could you please
>> tell me if PETSc sets some default flags that make the setup for those
>> solvers so slow for this simple problem ? The performance of (G)ASM is
>> in
>> comparison much better.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> PS: first the BoomerAMG log, then ML (much more verbose, sorry).
>>
>>  0 KSP Residual norm 1.599647112604e+00
>>  1 KSP Residual norm 5.450838232404e-02
>>  2 KSP Residual norm 3.549673478318e-03
>>  3 KSP Residual norm 2.901826808841e-04
>>  4 KSP Residual norm 2.574235778729e-05
>>  5 KSP Residual norm 2.253410171682e-06
>>  6 KSP Residual norm 1.871067784877e-07
>>  7 KSP Residual norm 1.681162800670e-08
>>  8 KSP Residual norm 2.120841512414e-09
>> KSP Object: 2048 MPI processes
>>  type: gmres
>>    GMRES: restart=30, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt
>> Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement
>>    GMRES: happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30
>>  maximum iterations=200, initial guess is zero
>>  tolerances:  relative=1e-08, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>  left preconditioning
>>  using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
>> PC Object: 2048 MPI processes
>>  type: hypre
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG preconditioning
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Cycle type V
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Maximum number of levels 25
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Maximum number of iterations PER hypre call 1
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Convergence tolerance PER hypre call 0
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Threshold for strong coupling 0.25
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Interpolation truncation factor 0
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Interpolation: max elements per row 0
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Number of levels of aggressive coarsening 0
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Number of paths for aggressive coarsening 1
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Maximum row sums 0.9
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Sweeps down         1
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Sweeps up           1
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Sweeps on coarse    1
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Relax down          symmetric-SOR/Jacobi
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Relax up            symmetric-SOR/Jacobi
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Relax on coarse     Gaussian-elimination
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Relax weight  (all)      1
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Outer relax weight (all) 1
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Using CF-relaxation
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Measure type        local
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Coarsen type        Falgout
>>    HYPRE BoomerAMG: Interpolation type  classical
>>  linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>  Matrix Object:   2048 MPI processes
>>    type: mpiaij
>>    rows=4173281, cols=4173281
>>    total: nonzeros=102576661, allocated nonzeros=102576661
>>    total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>      not using I-node (on process 0) routines
>> --- system solved with PETSc (in 1.005199e+02 seconds)
>>
>>  0 KSP Residual norm 2.368804472986e-01
>>  1 KSP Residual norm 5.676430019132e-02
>>  2 KSP Residual norm 1.898005876002e-02
>>  3 KSP Residual norm 6.193922902926e-03
>>  4 KSP Residual norm 2.008448794493e-03
>>  5 KSP Residual norm 6.390465670228e-04
>>  6 KSP Residual norm 2.157709394389e-04
>>  7 KSP Residual norm 7.295973819979e-05
>>  8 KSP Residual norm 2.358343271482e-05
>>  9 KSP Residual norm 7.489696222066e-06
>> 10 KSP Residual norm 2.390946857593e-06
>> 11 KSP Residual norm 8.068086385140e-07
>> 12 KSP Residual norm 2.706607789749e-07
>> 13 KSP Residual norm 8.636910863376e-08
>> 14 KSP Residual norm 2.761981175852e-08
>> 15 KSP Residual norm 8.755459874369e-09
>> 16 KSP Residual norm 2.708848598341e-09
>> 17 KSP Residual norm 8.968748876265e-10
>> KSP Object: 2048 MPI processes
>>  type: gmres
>>    GMRES: restart=30, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt
>> Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement
>>    GMRES: happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30
>>  maximum iterations=200, initial guess is zero
>>  tolerances:  relative=1e-08, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>  left preconditioning
>>  using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
>> PC Object: 2048 MPI processes
>>  type: ml
>>    MG: type is MULTIPLICATIVE, levels=3 cycles=v
>>      Cycles per PCApply=1
>>      Using Galerkin computed coarse grid matrices
>>  Coarse grid solver -- level -------------------------------
>>    KSP Object:    (mg_coarse_)     2048 MPI processes
>>      type: preonly
>>      maximum iterations=1, initial guess is zero
>>      tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>      left preconditioning
>>      using NONE norm type for convergence test
>>    PC Object:    (mg_coarse_)     2048 MPI processes
>>      type: redundant
>>        Redundant preconditioner: First (color=0) of 2048 PCs follows
>>      KSP Object:      (mg_coarse_redundant_)       1 MPI processes
>>        type: preonly
>>        maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero
>>        tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>        left preconditioning
>>        using NONE norm type for convergence test
>>      PC Object:      (mg_coarse_redundant_)       1 MPI processes
>>        type: lu
>>          LU: out-of-place factorization
>>          tolerance for zero pivot 2.22045e-14
>>          using diagonal shift on blocks to prevent zero pivot
>>          matrix ordering: nd
>>          factor fill ratio given 5, needed 4.38504
>>            Factored matrix follows:
>>              Matrix Object:               1 MPI processes
>>                type: seqaij
>>                rows=2055, cols=2055
>>                package used to perform factorization: petsc
>>                total: nonzeros=2476747, allocated nonzeros=2476747
>>                total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>                  using I-node routines: found 1638 nodes, limit used is
>> 5
>>        linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>        Matrix Object:         1 MPI processes
>>          type: seqaij
>>          rows=2055, cols=2055
>>          total: nonzeros=564817, allocated nonzeros=1093260
>>          total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>            not using I-node routines
>>      linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>      Matrix Object:       2048 MPI processes
>>        type: mpiaij
>>        rows=2055, cols=2055
>>        total: nonzeros=564817, allocated nonzeros=564817
>>        total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>          not using I-node (on process 0) routines
>>  Down solver (pre-smoother) on level 1 -------------------------------
>>    KSP Object:    (mg_levels_1_)     2048 MPI processes
>>      type: richardson
>>        Richardson: damping factor=1
>>      maximum iterations=2
>>      tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>      left preconditioning
>>      using nonzero initial guess
>>      using NONE norm type for convergence test
>>    PC Object:    (mg_levels_1_)     2048 MPI processes
>>      type: sor
>>        SOR: type = local_symmetric, iterations = 1, local iterations =
>> 1,
>> omega = 1
>>      linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>      Matrix Object:       2048 MPI processes
>>        type: mpiaij
>>        rows=30194, cols=30194
>>        total: nonzeros=3368414, allocated nonzeros=3368414
>>        total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>          not using I-node (on process 0) routines
>>  Up solver (post-smoother) same as down solver (pre-smoother)
>>  Down solver (pre-smoother) on level 2 -------------------------------
>>    KSP Object:    (mg_levels_2_)     2048 MPI processes
>>      type: richardson
>>        Richardson: damping factor=1
>>      maximum iterations=2
>>      tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>      left preconditioning
>>      using nonzero initial guess
>>      using NONE norm type for convergence test
>>    PC Object:    (mg_levels_2_)     2048 MPI processes
>>      type: sor
>>        SOR: type = local_symmetric, iterations = 1, local iterations =
>> 1,
>> omega = 1
>>      linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>      Matrix Object:       2048 MPI processes
>>        type: mpiaij
>>        rows=531441, cols=531441
>>        total: nonzeros=12476324, allocated nonzeros=12476324
>>        total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>          not using I-node (on process 0) routines
>>  Up solver (post-smoother) same as down solver (pre-smoother)
>>  linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>  Matrix Object:   2048 MPI processes
>>    type: mpiaij
>>    rows=531441, cols=531441
>>    total: nonzeros=12476324, allocated nonzeros=12476324
>>    total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>      not using I-node (on process 0) routines
>> --- system solved with PETSc (in 2.407844e+02 seconds)
>>
>>
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