[petsc-users] Differences between jacobi and bjacobi preconditioner for cg method 1-processor/block

[Paul Mullowney]

I don't think bjacobi is working on GPUs. I know Dominic made a pull
request a few months ago, but I don't know if its been integrated into next.
-Paul


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Jonathan Wong <jon.the.wong at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the input. To clarify, I'm trying to compare GPU algorithms to
>> Petsc, and they only have cg/jacobi for what I'm comparing at the moment.
>> This is why I'm not using gmres (which also works well).
>>
>> I can solve the problem with the GPU (custom code) using CG + jacobi for
>> all the meshes. On the CPU side, I can solve everything with cg/bjacobi and
>> almost all of my meshes with cg/jacobi except for my 50k node mesh. I can
>> solve the problem with my finite element built-in direct solver (just takes
>> awhile) on one processor. I've been reading that by default the bjacobi pc
>> uses one block per processor. So I had assumed that for one processor
>> block-jacobi and jacobi would give similar results. cg+bjacobi works fine.
>> cg+jacobi does not.
>>
>
> "Jacobi" means preconditioning by the inverse of the diagonal of the
> matrix. Block-Jacobi means using a preconditioner
> formed from each of the blocks, in this case 1 block. By default the inner
> preconditioner is ILU(0), not jacobi. You can
> make them equivalent using -sub_pc_type jacobi.
>
>    Matt
>
>
>> I'll just look into the preconditioner code and use KSPview to try to
>> figure out what the differences are for one processor. I'm not sure why the
>> GPU can consistently solve the problem with cg/jacobi. I'm assuming this is
>> due to the way round-off or the order of operations differences between the
>> two.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>>> > No, Block-Jacobi and Jacobi are completely different. If you are not
>>> > positive definite, you should be using MINRES.
>>>
>>> MINRES requires an SPD preconditioner.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> 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
>
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