[petsc-users] gamg problem

Benoit Fabrèges benoit.fabreges at inria.fr
Wed Jul 8 13:15:21 CDT 2015


I am using the release version 3.6.0. I tried with the development 
version and it is working fine now.

Thanks a lot,
Benoit

On Wed 08 Jul 2015 06:53:11 PM CEST, Mark Adams wrote:
> What version of PETSc are you using?  This has been changing recently.
>
> -help will show you the parameters for each level, like
> -mg_levels_1_eigest_ksp_type <GMRES>.  PETSc provides syntactic sugar
> to do all levels by removing the "_1".
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Benoit Fabrèges
> <benoit.fabreges at inria.fr <mailto:benoit.fabreges at inria.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     thank you for the answer. I tried to change the ksp to cg to
>     estimate the eigenvalues like you propose but petsc doesn't find
>     the option:
>
>     mpirun -n 8 ./ex54 -ne 1023 -ksp_rtol 1e-10
>     -ksp_monitor_true_residual -options_left -mg_levels_esteig_ksp_type cg
>      0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.489979017016e+03 true resid
>     norm 9.779947596961e-04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>      1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 5.415647207494e+01 true resid
>     norm 6.738962907374e-02 ||r(i)||/||b|| 6.890592041073e+01
>      2 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.646483778031e+01 true resid
>     norm 4.789220846312e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 4.896980069505e+00
>      3 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.915371795016e+00 true resid
>     norm 4.570471306345e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 4.673308584767e+00
>      4 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.234057146730e+00 true resid
>     norm 5.812076545460e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 5.942850396526e+00
>     #PETSc Option Table entries:
>     -ksp_monitor_true_residual
>     -ksp_rtol 1e-10
>     -mg_levels_esteig_ksp_type cg
>     -ne 1023
>     -options_left
>     #End of PETSc Option Table entries
>     There is one unused database option. It is:
>     Option left: name:-mg_levels_esteig_ksp_type value: cg
>
>     I could not find it either by adding -help to get all the possible
>     options.
>     By the way, if I reverse the order of the option -options-left and
>     -mg_levels_esteig_ksp_type cg, it doesn't print the left options
>     at the end anymore.
>
>     Is there something else to change apart from the option
>     -mg_levels_esteig_ksp_type cg ?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Benoit
>
>
>
>     On Wed 08 Jul 2015 03:31:32 PM CEST, Mark Adams wrote:
>
>         Sorry for the delay. The problem is that the eigen estimates
>         are bad
>         for the Chebyshev smoother.  Unfortunately this fails
>         catastrophically.
>
>         First, I do not understand why we do not get an error message
>         here:
>
>         13:57 PICell> ~/Codes/petsc/src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials$
>         mpirun -n
>         8 ./ex54 -ne 1023 -ksp_rtol 1e-10 -ksp_monitor_true_residual
>         -options_left
>           0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.408779787997e+03 true
>         resid norm
>         9.779947596963e-04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>           1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.605106317291e+01 true
>         resid norm
>         6.550622855055e-02 ||r(i)||/||b|| 6.698014268593e+01
>           2 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.105905914541e+01 true
>         resid norm
>         5.536477156386e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 5.661049920253e+00
>           3 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.775390521485e+00 true
>         resid norm
>         1.822171753713e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.863171285579e+00
>           4 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.367933585867e-01 true
>         resid norm
>         2.173992967507e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 2.222908605545e+00
>         #PETSc Option Table entries:
>         -ksp_monitor_true_residual
>         -ksp_rtol 1e-10
>         -ne 1023
>         -options_left
>         #End of PETSc Option Table entries
>         There are no unused options.
>
>         It just stops.  What is going on here?????
>
>         A problem is that GMRES is the default it is not accuare.  CG
>         is much
>         better.  I will add this to all tests (54, 55, 56) that use Cheby.
>         Here is what we get with CG:
>
>         14:12 PICell> ~/Codes/petsc/src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials$
>         mpirun -n
>         8 ./ex54 -ne 1023 -ksp_rtol 1e-10 -ksp_monitor_true_residual
>         -mg_levels_esteig_ksp_type cg
>           0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.397141111771e+03 true
>         resid norm
>         9.779947596963e-04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>           1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.398367771703e+01 true
>         resid norm
>         5.969698581458e-02 ||r(i)||/||b|| 6.104018986064e+01
>           2 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.025487152015e+01 true
>         resid norm
>         4.795534114089e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 4.903435388118e+00
>           3 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.693141357521e+00 true
>         resid norm
>         1.392786125856e-03 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.424124323824e+00
>           4 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.147511674674e-01 true
>         resid norm
>         2.801964778489e-04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 2.865010012281e-01
>           5 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.133515586579e-01 true
>         resid norm
>         3.760895077288e-05 ||r(i)||/||b|| 3.845516594031e-02
>           6 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.169295614319e-02 true
>         resid norm
>         5.672568123760e-06 ||r(i)||/||b|| 5.800202984239e-03
>           7 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.281609546752e-03 true
>         resid norm
>         8.103035520325e-07 ||r(i)||/||b|| 8.285356787434e-04
>           8 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.898415766718e-04 true
>         resid norm
>         1.250723051310e-07 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.278864778067e-04
>           9 KSP preconditioned resid norm 3.325790135426e-05 true
>         resid norm
>         2.304415060174e-08 ||r(i)||/||b|| 2.356265243067e-05
>          10 KSP preconditioned resid norm 8.224698701048e-06 true
>         resid norm
>         4.786148212120e-09 ||r(i)||/||b|| 4.893838299917e-06
>          11 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.224414108364e-06 true
>         resid norm
>         7.170267325093e-10 ||r(i)||/||b|| 7.331600966164e-07
>          12 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.760480053719e-07 true
>         resid norm
>         1.005681798001e-10 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.028310006807e-07
>
>         So all is well.
>
>         Thanks for pointing this out.
>         Mark
>
>         On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Benoit Fabrèges
>         <benoit.fabreges at inria.fr <mailto:benoit.fabreges at inria.fr>
>         <mailto:benoit.fabreges at inria.fr
>         <mailto:benoit.fabreges at inria.fr>>> wrote:
>
>             Dear PETSc developers,
>             I updated from 3.4 to 3.6 and I have a strange behavior
>         with the
>             GAMG preconditioner. I am running ex54 with the following
>         options:
>             -ne 1023 -ksp_rtol 1e-10 -ksp_monitor_true_residual
>         -options_left
>
>             I don't have the same behavior depending on the number of
>         process
>             used. It is for example not converging with 8 and 12
>         process with
>             the reason KSP_DIVERGED_INDEFINITE_PC but it is working
>         fine in
>             other cases (I didn't try with more than 12 process).
>
>             Do you have the same behavior ? It is working fine with
>         3.4 version.
>
>             Best,
>
>             Benoit
>
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