[petsc-users] Norm of RHS in BCGS

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Norihiro Watanabe <norihiro.w at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What I wanted to do is displaying final converged errors without using
> -ksp_monitor. Because my problem includes a lot of time steps and
> nonlinear iterations, log output from -ksp_monitor for each linear
> solve is sometimes too much. But you are right. It doesn't make sense
> to call the expensive function just for the log output.
>

Maybe something like -ksp_converged_reason?

  Thanks,

     Matt


> Thanks,
> Nori
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Norihiro Watanabe <norihiro.w at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you Matt!
> >>
> >> Actually I don't want to change a norm type used in a convergence
> >> check. I just want to output a relative error which PETSc actually
> >> used for a convergence check (for log output in my program without
> >> -ksp_*) and thought I need to have a norm of a preconditioned RHS to
> >> compute it by myself. Or is there any function available in PETSc
> >> which returns the relative error or the tolerance multiplied by the
> >> norm of a preconditioned RHS? I couldn't find it.
> >
> >
> > If you want the action of the preconditioner, you can pull it out
> >
> >   KSPGetPC()
> >
> > and apply it
> >
> >   PCApply()
> >
> > but I still do not understand why you want this. Do you want to check the
> > norms
> > yourself? The PCApply() could be expensive to calculate again.
> >
> >   Thanks,
> >
> >      Matt
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Nori
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:50 AM, Norihiro Watanabe
> >> > <norihiro.w at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> Is it correct that a norm of a preconditioned RHS vector is used to
> >> >> compute a relative error in BCGS?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Yes, but you can verify this using -ksp_view
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm testing BCGS + BoomerAMG. With "-info", PETSc says "initial right
> >> >> hand side norm" is 2.223619476717e+10 (see below) but an actual norm
> >> >> of the RHS I passed is 4.059007e-02. If yes, is there any way to get
> a
> >> >> norm of a preconditioned RHS?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Do you mean unpreconditioned? You can try
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/KSP/KSPSetNormType.html
> >> >
> >> > or use
> >> >
> >> >   -ksp_monitor_true_residual
> >> >
> >> >   Thanks,
> >> >
> >> >     Matt
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> [0] KSPConvergedDefault(): Linear solver has converged. Residual norm
> >> >> 2.036064453512e-02 is less than relative tolerance 9.999999960042e-13
> >> >> times initial right hand side norm 2.223619476717e+10 at iteration 6
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards,
> >> >> Nori
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Norihiro Watanabe
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Norihiro Watanabe
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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
>
>
>
> --
> Norihiro Watanabe
>



-- 
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