[petsc-users] Obtaining compiling and building information from a.out

[TAY wee-beng]

On 28/3/2018 5:45 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:17 PM, TAY wee-beng <zonexo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:zonexo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Dave,
>
>     I looked at the output using log_view and re-compile. However,
>     although I use the same options "-xHost -g -O3 -openmp" (some
>     filenames and dir names are now different but they are actually
>     the same), I still get different results timing. I have attach
>     both, fast and slow. So what else can I do to pinpoint the
>     differences?
>
> The solver options must be different. In Fast, there is almost no time 
> in LUFactor, but in Slow its half the time.
>
>    Matt
Hi Matt,

Finally found that it was because I was using KSPRICHARDSON in the new 
code. KSPGMRES in the old code is much faster.

I also tried cg, lsqr, fgmres. CG and GMRES seem similar in term of best 
performance. Are there any other recommendations to try? The Poisson eqn 
is symmetric.

I also tried -pc_type mg -pc_mg_nlevels 2 instead of -poisson_pc_type 
gamg -poisson_pc_gamg_agg_nsmooths 1.

It reduces the runtime from 2.25 to 1.46min.

However, I found that my subroutine is very similar to my momentum 
subroutine, which is based on KSPSolve:

0. DMDACreate, DMDACreate3d etc
1. Assemble matrix
2. KSPSetOperators, KSPSetType etc
3. KSPSolve

However, the 2D Poisson example in ex5f.F90 uses SNESSetDM, SNESSolve 
etc. So does it matter if I use SNESSolve or KSPSolve if I'm using 
-pc_type mg?

>     Thank you very much.
>
>     Yours sincerely,
>
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>     On 27/3/2018 5:22 PM, Dave May wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On 27 March 2018 at 10:16, TAY wee-beng <zonexo at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:zonexo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         I have been compiling and building different version of my
>>         CFD with the intel 2016, 2018 compilers, and also different
>>         compiling options.
>>
>>         I tested a version of my a.out and it is much faster than the
>>         other a.out, using only 3 min instead of more than 10min to
>>         solve a certain case using GAMG.
>>
>>         However, I can't recall how it was compiled. I only know that
>>         I used the intel 2016 compiler.
>>
>>         So is there any way I can find out how the a.out was
>>         compiled? Like what options were used?
>>
>>
>>     Since you posted to the list I presume "a.out" links against petsc...
>>     If so, run your code with
>>       -log_view
>>
>>     Upon calling PetscFinalize(), you will get all the options given
>>     to PETSc configure, plus the CFLAGS, link lines, etc.
>>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which 
> their experiments lead.
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>
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