[petsc-users] Troubles updating my code from PETSc-3.4 to 3.5 Using MUMPS for KSPSolve()

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Dec 11 11:01:13 CST 2014


  Please run both with -ksp_monitor -ksp_type gmres  and send the output

  Barry

> On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Marc MEDALE <marc.medale at univ-amu.fr> wrote:
> 
> Dear Matt,
> 
> the output files obtained with PETSc-3.4p4 and 3.5p1 versions using the following command line:
> -ksp_type preonly -pc_type lu -pc_factor_mat_solver_package mumps -mat_mumps_icntl_8 0 -ksp_monitor -ksp_view
> 
> are attached below. If skipping flops and memory usage per core, a diff between the two output files reduces to:
> diff Output_3.4p4.txt Output_3.5p1.txt
> 14c14
> <         Matrix Object:         64 MPI processes
> ---
> >         Mat Object:         64 MPI processes
> 18c18
> <           total: nonzeros=481059588, allocated nonzeros=481059588
> ---
> >           total: nonzeros=4.8106e+08, allocated nonzeros=4.8106e+08
> 457c457
> <               INFOG(10) (total integer space store the matrix factors after factorization): 26149876 
> ---
> >               INFOG(10) (total integer space store the matrix factors after factorization): 26136333 
> 461c461
> <               INFOG(14) (number of memory compress after factorization): 54 
> ---
> >               INFOG(14) (number of memory compress after factorization): 48 
> 468,469c468,469
> <               INFOG(21) (size in MB of memory effectively used during factorization - value on the most memory consuming processor): 338 
> <               INFOG(22) (size in MB of memory effectively used during factorization - sum over all processors): 19782 
> ---
> >               INFOG(21) (size in MB of memory effectively used during factorization - value on the most memory consuming processor): 334 
> >               INFOG(22) (size in MB of memory effectively used during factorization - sum over all processors): 19779 
> 472a473,478
> >               INFOG(28) (after factorization: number of null pivots encountered): 0
> >               INFOG(29) (after factorization: effective number of entries in the factors (sum over all processors)): 470143172
> >               INFOG(30, 31) (after solution: size in Mbytes of memory used during solution phase): 202, 10547
> >               INFOG(32) (after analysis: type of analysis done): 1
> >               INFOG(33) (value used for ICNTL(8)): 0
> >               INFOG(34) (exponent of the determinant if determinant is requested): 0
> 474c480
> <   Matrix Object:   64 MPI processes
> ---
> >   Mat Object:   64 MPI processes
> 477c483
> <     total: nonzeros=63720324, allocated nonzeros=63720324
> ---
> >     total: nonzeros=6.37203e+07, allocated nonzeros=6.37203e+07
> 481c487
> < Norme de U  1 7.37266E-02, L  1  1.00000E+00
> ---
> > Norme de U  1 1.61172E-02, L  1  1.00000E+00
> 483c489
> <  Temps total d execution :   198.373291969299     
> ---
> >  Temps total d execution :   216.934082031250     
> 
> 
> Which does not reveal any striking differences, except in the L2 norm of the solution vectors.
> 
> I need assistance to help me to overcome this quite bizarre behavior.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Marc MEDALE
> 
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> Le 11 déc. 2014 à 11:43, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Marc MEDALE <marc.medale at univ-amu.fr> wrote:
>> Dear PETSC Users,
>> 
>> I have just updated to PETSc-3.5 my research code that uses PETSc for a while but I'm facing an astonishing difference between PETSc-3.4 to 3.5 versions when solving a very ill conditioned algebraic system with MUMPS (4.10.0 in both cases).
>> 
>> The only differences that arise in my fortran source code are the following:
>> Loma1-medale% diff ../version_3.5/solvEFL_MAN_SBIF.F ../version_3.4/solvEFL_MAN_SBIF.F
>> 336,337d335
>> <       CALL MatSetOption(MATGLOB,MAT_KEEP_NONZERO_PATTERN,
>> <      &       PETSC_TRUE,IER)
>> 749,750c747,748
>> <       CALL KSPSetTolerances(KSP1,TOL,PETSC_DEFAULT_REAL,
>> <      &     PETSC_DEFAULT_REAL,PETSC_DEFAULT_INTEGER,IER)
>> ---
>> >       CALL KSPSetTolerances(KSP1,TOL,PETSC_DEFAULT_DOUBLE_PRECISION,
>> >      &     PETSC_DEFAULT_DOUBLE_PRECISION,PETSC_DEFAULT_INTEGER,IER)
>> 909c907,908
>> <           CALL KSPSetOperators(KSP1,MATGLOB,MATGLOB,IER)
>> ---
>> >           CALL KSPSetOperators(KSP1,MATGLOB,MATGLOB,
>> >      &                         SAME_NONZERO_PATTERN,IER)
>> 
>> When I run the corresponding program versions on 128 cores of our cluster with the same input data and the following command line arguments:
>> -ksp_type preonly -pc_type lu -pc_factor_mat_solver_package mumps -mat_mumps_icntl_8 0
>> 
>> I get the following outputs:
>> a)  with PETSc-3.4p4:
>>         L2 norm of solution vector: 7.39640E-02,
>> 
>> b)  with PETSc-3.5p1:
>>         L2 norm of solution vector: 1.61325E-02
>> 
>> Do I have change something else in updating my code based on KSP from PETSc-3.4 to 3.5 versions?
>> Do any default values in the PETSc-MUMPS interface have been changed from PETSc-3.4 to 3.5?
>> Any hints or suggestions are welcome to help me to recover the right results (obtained with PETSc-3.4).
>> 
>> Send the output from -ksp_monitor -ksp_view for both runs. I am guessing that a MUMPS default changed between versions.
>> 
>>   Thanks,
>> 
>>     Matt
>>  
>> Thank you very much.
>> 
>> Marc MEDALE.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 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
> 
> <Output_3.4p4.txt><Output_3.5p1.txt>



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