[petsc-users] Petsc ILU PC Change between 3.6.4 and 3.7.x?
Gaetan Kenway
gaetank at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 14:43:41 CDT 2017
Huh. That's odd then. I was actually bisecting the petsc releases to narrow
it down...I knew 3.3 was ok and 3.7 was not. So I tried 3.5 which was ok,
and then 3.6 which was ok as well, leading to me to conclude the difference
was between 3.6 and 3.7.
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Thanks for confirming this. The change was actually in the 3.4 release.
> I have updated the 3.4 changes file to include this change in both the
> maint and master branches.
>
> Barry
>
> > On Aug 11, 2017, at 12:47 PM, Gaetan Kenway <gaetank at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > OK, so that was certainly it. I vaguely recall reading something about
> this on the mailing list at one point in time, but couldn't find anything.
> > I would definitely put something on the 3.7 change doc since I looked
> there first to see if anything stuck out.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
> >
> > Run with the additional option
> >
> > -sub_pc_factor_shift_type nonzero
> >
> > does this resolve the problem. We changed the default behavior for ILU
> when it detects "zero" pivots.
> >
> > Please let us know if this resolves the problem and we'll update the
> changes file.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 11, 2017, at 12:14 PM, Gaetan Kenway <gaetank at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I'm in the process of updating a code that uses PETSc for solving
> linear systems for an unstructured CFD code. As of recently, it was using
> an ancient version (3.3). However, when I updated it up to 3.7.6 I ended up
> running into issues with one of the KSP solves. The remainder of the code
> is identical,
> > > I've tracked the issue down to occurring between version 3.6.4 and
> version 3.7.0 . The same issue is present on the most recent version 3.7.6.
> > >
> > > Specifically the issue is that on the second iteration, on the 3.7
> version the KSP kicks out with KSP converged reason of -11 or
> KSP_DIVERGED_PCSETUP_FAILED . After that the two runs differ. The KSPView
> for each of the two are given below which are identical, up to small
> formatting changes. There is still more I can track down, but I thought I
> would ask if someone knows what might have changed between these two
> versions which could save me a lot of time.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Gaetan
> > >
> > > 3.6 KSP View:
> > > KSP Object: 8 MPI processes
> > > type: gmres
> > > GMRES: restart=3, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt
> Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement
> > > GMRES: happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30
> > > maximum iterations=3
> > > using preconditioner applied to right hand side for initial guess
> > > tolerances: relative=1e-08, absolute=1e-20, divergence=1e+15
> > > left preconditioning
> > > using nonzero initial guess
> > > using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
> > > PC Object: 8 MPI processes
> > > type: bjacobi
> > > block Jacobi: number of blocks = 8
> > > Local solve is same for all blocks, in the following KSP and PC
> objects:
> > > KSP Object: (sub_) 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: (sub_) 1 MPI processes
> > > type: ilu
> > > ILU: out-of-place factorization
> > > 0 levels of fill
> > > tolerance for zero pivot 2.22045e-14
> > > matrix ordering: natural
> > > factor fill ratio given 1, needed 1
> > > Factored matrix follows:
> > > Mat Object: 1 MPI processes
> > > type: seqaij
> > > rows=46439, cols=46439
> > > package used to perform factorization: petsc
> > > total: nonzeros=502615, allocated nonzeros=502615
> > > total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
> > > not using I-node routines
> > > linear system matrix = precond matrix:
> > > Mat Object: 1 MPI processes
> > > type: seqaij
> > > rows=46439, cols=46439
> > > total: nonzeros=502615, allocated nonzeros=504081
> > > total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
> > > not using I-node routines
> > > linear system matrix = precond matrix:
> > > Mat Object: 8 MPI processes
> > > type: mpiaij
> > > rows=368656, cols=368656
> > > total: nonzeros=4.63682e+06, allocated nonzeros=4.64417e+06
> > > total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
> > > not using I-node (on process 0) routines
> > > <my output: reason, iterations, rtol, atol>
> > > reason,its: 2 3 0.001 1e-20
> > >
> > >
> > > Petsc 3.7 KSP View
> > > KSP Object: 8 MPI processes
> > > type: gmres
> > > GMRES: restart=3, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt
> Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement
> > > GMRES: happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30
> > > maximum iterations=3
> > > using preconditioner applied to right hand side for initial guess
> > > tolerances: relative=1e-08, absolute=1e-20, divergence=1e+15
> > > left preconditioning
> > > using nonzero initial guess
> > > using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
> > > PC Object: 8 MPI processes
> > > type: bjacobi
> > > block Jacobi: number of blocks = 8
> > > Local solve is same for all blocks, in the following KSP and PC
> objects:
> > > KSP Object: (sub_) 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: (sub_) 1 MPI processes
> > > type: ilu
> > > ILU: out-of-place factorization
> > > 0 levels of fill
> > > tolerance for zero pivot 2.22045e-14
> > > matrix ordering: natural
> > > factor fill ratio given 1., needed 1.
> > > Factored matrix follows:
> > > Mat Object: 1 MPI processes
> > > type: seqaij
> > > rows=46439, cols=46439
> > > package used to perform factorization: petsc
> > > total: nonzeros=502615, allocated nonzeros=502615
> > > total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
> > > not using I-node routines
> > > linear system matrix = precond matrix:
> > > Mat Object: 1 MPI processes
> > > type: seqaij
> > > rows=46439, cols=46439
> > > total: nonzeros=502615, allocated nonzeros=504081
> > > total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
> > > not using I-node routines
> > > linear system matrix = precond matrix:
> > > Mat Object: 8 MPI processes
> > > type: mpiaij
> > > rows=368656, cols=368656
> > > total: nonzeros=4636822, allocated nonzeros=4644168
> > > total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
> > > not using I-node (on process 0) routines
> > > <my output: reason, iterations, rtol, atol>
> > > reason,its: -11 0 0.001 1e-20
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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