[petsc-users] Debugging SNES when "everything" looks okay

Ling Zou Ling.Zou at inl.gov
Wed Aug 22 12:46:02 CDT 2018


I think your Jacobian is good enough, otherwise you won't achieve one step KSP convergence using '-pc_type lu'.

Are you using matrix free? If so, could try:


'-mat_mffd_type ds -mat_fd_type ds'


-Ling


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From: petsc-users <petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov> on behalf of Ellen Price <ellen.price at cfa.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:33:18 AM
To: Matthew Knepley; Smith, Barry F.
Cc: PETSc
Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Debugging SNES when "everything" looks okay

For Barry:

Okay, I'm stumped. Some of my Jacobian terms match up with the finite difference one. Others are off by orders of magnitude. This led me to think that maybe there was something wrong with my analytic Jacobian, so I went back and started trying to track down which term causes the problem. The weird thing is that Mathematica gives the same numerical result as my code (within a small tolerance), whether i substitute numbers into its analytic Jacobian or numerically differentiate the function I'm trying to solve using Mathematica. I can't think of anything else to try for debugging the Jacobian. Even if the function has a bug in it, Mathematica seems pretty sure that I'm using the right Jacobian for what I put in... At the suggestion of the FAQ, I also tried "-mat_fd_type ds" to see if that made any difference, but it doesn't. Like I said, I'm stumped, but I'll keep trying.

For Matt:

Using options "-pc_type lu -snes_view -snes_monitor -snes_converged_reason -ksp_monitor_true_residual -ksp_converged_reason -snes_type newtontr", the output is below. I thought that the step length convergence message had something to do with using NEWTONTR, but I could be wrong about that. It doesn't give that message when I switch to NEWTONLS. It also only gives that message after the first iteration -- the first one is always CONVERGED_RTOL.

7.533921e-03, 2.054699e+02
  0 SNES Function norm 6.252612941119e+04
    0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.027204021595e-01 true resid norm 6.252612941119e+04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
    1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 2.641617517320e-17 true resid norm 3.941610607093e-11 ||r(i)||/||b|| 6.303941478885e-16
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_RTOL iterations 1
  1 SNES Function norm 6.252085930204e+04
    0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 3.857372064539e-01 true resid norm 6.252085930204e+04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
    1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 3.664921095158e-16 true resid norm 2.434875289829e-10 ||r(i)||/||b|| 3.894500678672e-15
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_STEP_LENGTH iterations 1
  2 SNES Function norm 6.251886926050e+04
    0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.085000006938e-01 true resid norm 6.251886926050e+04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
    1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 5.318519617927e-16 true resid norm 8.189931340015e-10 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.309993516660e-14
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_STEP_LENGTH iterations 1
.....
 48 SNES Function norm 6.229932776333e+04
    0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.872526135345e+00 true resid norm 6.229932776333e+04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
    1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 7.281571852581e-15 true resid norm 8.562155918387e-09 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.374357673796e-13
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_STEP_LENGTH iterations 1
 49 SNES Function norm 6.229663411026e+04
    0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 4.953303401996e+00 true resid norm 6.229663411026e+04 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
    1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.537319689814e-15 true resid norm 4.783442569088e-09 ||r(i)||/||b|| 7.678492806886e-14
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_STEP_LENGTH iterations 1
 50 SNES Function norm 6.229442686875e+04
Nonlinear solve did not converge due to DIVERGED_MAX_IT iterations 50
SNES Object: 2 MPI processes
  type: newtontr
    Trust region tolerance (-snes_trtol)
    mu=0.25, eta=0.75, sigma=0.0001
    delta0=0.2, delta1=0.3, delta2=0.75, delta3=2.
  maximum iterations=50, maximum function evaluations=10000
  tolerances: relative=1e-08, absolute=1e-50, solution=1e-08
  total number of linear solver iterations=50
  total number of function evaluations=58
  norm schedule ALWAYS
  SNESLineSearch Object: 2 MPI processes
    type: basic
    maxstep=1.000000e+08, minlambda=1.000000e-12
    tolerances: relative=1.000000e-08, absolute=1.000000e-15, lambda=1.000000e-08
    maximum iterations=1
  KSP Object: 2 MPI processes
    type: gmres
      restart=30, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement
      happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30
    maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero
    tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000.
    left preconditioning
    using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
  PC Object: 2 MPI processes
    type: lu
      out-of-place factorization
      tolerance for zero pivot 2.22045e-14
      matrix ordering: natural
      factor fill ratio given 0., needed 0.
        Factored matrix follows:
          Mat Object: 2 MPI processes
            type: mumps
            rows=20, cols=20
            package used to perform factorization: mumps
            total: nonzeros=112, allocated nonzeros=112
            total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
              MUMPS run parameters:
                SYM (matrix type):                   0
                PAR (host participation):            1
                ICNTL(1) (output for error):         6
                ICNTL(2) (output of diagnostic msg): 0
                ICNTL(3) (output for global info):   0
                ICNTL(4) (level of printing):        0
                ICNTL(5) (input mat struct):         0
                ICNTL(6) (matrix prescaling):        7
                ICNTL(7) (sequential matrix ordering):7
                ICNTL(8) (scaling strategy):        77
                ICNTL(10) (max num of refinements):  0
                ICNTL(11) (error analysis):          0
                ICNTL(12) (efficiency control):                         1
                ICNTL(13) (efficiency control):                         0
                ICNTL(14) (percentage of estimated workspace increase): 20
                ICNTL(18) (input mat struct):                           3
                ICNTL(19) (Schur complement info):                       0
                ICNTL(20) (rhs sparse pattern):                         0
                ICNTL(21) (solution struct):                            1
                ICNTL(22) (in-core/out-of-core facility):               0
                ICNTL(23) (max size of memory can be allocated locally):0
                ICNTL(24) (detection of null pivot rows):               0
                ICNTL(25) (computation of a null space basis):          0
                ICNTL(26) (Schur options for rhs or solution):          0
                ICNTL(27) (experimental parameter):                     -32
                ICNTL(28) (use parallel or sequential ordering):        1
                ICNTL(29) (parallel ordering):                          0
                ICNTL(30) (user-specified set of entries in inv(A)):    0
                ICNTL(31) (factors is discarded in the solve phase):    0
                ICNTL(33) (compute determinant):                        0
                ICNTL(35) (activate BLR based factorization):           0
                CNTL(1) (relative pivoting threshold):      0.01
                CNTL(2) (stopping criterion of refinement): 1.49012e-08
                CNTL(3) (absolute pivoting threshold):      0.
                CNTL(4) (value of static pivoting):         -1.
                CNTL(5) (fixation for null pivots):         0.
                CNTL(7) (dropping parameter for BLR):       0.
                RINFO(1) (local estimated flops for the elimination after analysis):
                  [0] 127.
                  [1] 155.
                RINFO(2) (local estimated flops for the assembly after factorization):
                  [0]  16.
                  [1]  16.
                RINFO(3) (local estimated flops for the elimination after factorization):
                  [0]  127.
                  [1]  155.
                INFO(15) (estimated size of (in MB) MUMPS internal data for running numerical factorization):
                [0] 1
                [1] 1
                INFO(16) (size of (in MB) MUMPS internal data used during numerical factorization):
                  [0] 1
                  [1] 1
                INFO(23) (num of pivots eliminated on this processor after factorization):
                  [0] 10
                  [1] 10
                RINFOG(1) (global estimated flops for the elimination after analysis): 282.
                RINFOG(2) (global estimated flops for the assembly after factorization): 32.
                RINFOG(3) (global estimated flops for the elimination after factorization): 282.
                (RINFOG(12) RINFOG(13))*2^INFOG(34) (determinant): (0.,0.)*(2^0)
                INFOG(3) (estimated real workspace for factors on all processors after analysis): 112
                INFOG(4) (estimated integer workspace for factors on all processors after analysis): 225
                INFOG(5) (estimated maximum front size in the complete tree): 4
                INFOG(6) (number of nodes in the complete tree): 9
                INFOG(7) (ordering option effectively use after analysis): 2
                INFOG(8) (structural symmetry in percent of the permuted matrix after analysis): 100
                INFOG(9) (total real/complex workspace to store the matrix factors after factorization): 112
                INFOG(10) (total integer space store the matrix factors after factorization): 225
                INFOG(11) (order of largest frontal matrix after factorization): 4
                INFOG(12) (number of off-diagonal pivots): 0
                INFOG(13) (number of delayed pivots after factorization): 0
                INFOG(14) (number of memory compress after factorization): 0
                INFOG(15) (number of steps of iterative refinement after solution): 0
                INFOG(16) (estimated size (in MB) of all MUMPS internal data for factorization after analysis: value on the most memory consuming processor): 1
                INFOG(17) (estimated size of all MUMPS internal data for factorization after analysis: sum over all processors): 2
                INFOG(18) (size of all MUMPS internal data allocated during factorization: value on the most memory consuming processor): 1
                INFOG(19) (size of all MUMPS internal data allocated during factorization: sum over all processors): 2
                INFOG(20) (estimated number of entries in the factors): 112
                INFOG(21) (size in MB of memory effectively used during factorization - value on the most memory consuming processor): 1
                INFOG(22) (size in MB of memory effectively used during factorization - sum over all processors): 2
                INFOG(23) (after analysis: value of ICNTL(6) effectively used): 0
                INFOG(24) (after analysis: value of ICNTL(12) effectively used): 1
                INFOG(25) (after factorization: number of pivots modified by static pivoting): 0
                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)): 112
                INFOG(30, 31) (after solution: size in Mbytes of memory used during solution phase): 0, 0
                INFOG(32) (after analysis: type of analysis done): 1
                INFOG(33) (value used for ICNTL(8)): 7
                INFOG(34) (exponent of the determinant if determinant is requested): 0
    linear system matrix = precond matrix:
    Mat Object: 2 MPI processes
      type: mpiaij
      rows=20, cols=20, bs=2
      total: nonzeros=112, allocated nonzeros=240
      total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0

Ellen

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:16 PM Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com<mailto:knepley at gmail.com>> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:00 PM Ellen M. Price <ellen.price at cfa.harvard.edu<mailto:ellen.price at cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote:
Hi PETSc users,

I'm having trouble applying SNES to a new problem I'm working on. I'll
try to be as complete as possible but can't post the full code because
it's ongoing research and is pretty long anyway.

The nonlinear problem arises from trying to solve a set of two coupled
ODEs using a Galerkin method. I am using Mathematica to generate the
objective function to solve and the Jacobian, so I *think* I can rule
out human error on that front.

There are four things I can easily change:

- number of DMDA grid points N (I've tried 100 and 1000)
- preconditioner (I've tried LU and SVD, LU appears to work better, and
SVD is too slow for N = 1000)
- linear solver (haven't played with this much, but sometimes smaller
tolerances work better)
- nonlinear solver (what I'm having trouble with)

Trying different solvers should, as far as I'm aware, give comparable
answers, but that's not the case here. NEWTONTR works best of the ones
I've tried, but I'm suspicious that the function value barely decreases
before SNES "converges" -- and none of the options I've tried changing
seem to affect this, as it just finds another reason to converge without
making any real progress. For example:

  0 SNES Function norm 7.197788479418e+00
    0 KSP Residual norm 1.721996766619e+01
    1 KSP Residual norm 5.186021549059e-14
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_STEP_LENGTH iterations 1

This makes no sense. LU should converge due to atol or rtol. Send the output of

  -snes_view -snes_monitor -snes_converged_reason -ksp_monitor_true_residual -ksp_converged_reason

  Thanks,

    Matt

  1 SNES Function norm 7.197777674987e+00
    0 KSP Residual norm 3.296112185897e+01
    1 KSP Residual norm 2.713415432045e-13
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_STEP_LENGTH iterations 1
.....
 50 SNES Function norm 7.197376803542e+00
    0 KSP Residual norm 6.222518656302e+02
    1 KSP Residual norm 9.630659996504e-12
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_STEP_LENGTH iterations 1
 51 SNES Function norm 7.197376803542e+00
Nonlinear solve converged due to CONVERGED_SNORM_RELATIVE iterations 50

I've tried everything I can think of and the FAQ suggestions, including
non-dimensionalizing the problem; I observe the same behavior either
way. The particularly strange thing I can't understand is why some of
the SNES methods fail outright, after just one iteration (NCG, NGMRES,
and others) with DIVERGED_DTOL. Unless I've misunderstood, it seems
like, for the most part, I should be able to substitute in one method
for another, possibly adjusting a few parameters along the way.
Furthermore, the default method, NEWTONLS, diverges with
DIVERGED_LINE_SEARCH, which I'm not sure how to debug.

So the only viable method is NEWTONTR, and that doesn't appear to
"really" converge. Any suggestions for further things to try are
appreciated. My current options are:

-pc_type lu -snes_monitor -snes_converged_reason -ksp_converged_reason
-snes_max_it 10000 -ksp_monitor -snes_type newtonls

Thanks in advance,
Ellen Price


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