[petsc-users] SuperLU_dist bug with parallel symbolic factorisation

Hong hzhang at mcs.anl.gov
Tue May 22 10:37:54 CDT 2018


Eric:
Likely, you encounter a zero pivot. Run your code with
'-ksp_error_if_not_converged' would show it.
Adding option '-mat_superlu_dist_replacetinypivot' might help.
Hong

Hi,
>
> The given matrix+vector is bogus with SuperLU_Dist on some of our nighlty
> validation tests since I activated the parallel symbolic factorisation.
> (with -mat_superlu_dist_colperm PARMETIS -mat_superlu_dist_parsymbfact 1 )
>
> I extracted an example system and reproduced the bug with
> src/ksp/ksp/examples/tests/ex6.c that I can run it with 2 or 3 processes,
> but with 4 it gives a FPE on process #1:
>
> mpirun -n 4 ./ex6 -f AssembleurGD_resolution_no_0_0 -ksp_view -ksp_type
> preonly -pc_type lu -pc_factor_mat_solver_type superlu_dist
> -mat_superlu_dist_colperm PARMETIS -mat_superlu_dist_parsymbfact 1
>
> ...
> [1]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------
> [1]PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 8 FPE: Floating Point
> Exception,probably divide by zero
> [1]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger or -on_error_attach_debugger
> [1]PETSC ERROR: or see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/d
> ocumentation/faq.html#valgrind
> [1]PETSC ERROR: or try http://valgrind.org on GNU/linux and Apple Mac OS
> X to find memory corruption errors
> [1]PETSC ERROR: likely location of problem given in stack below
> [1]PETSC ERROR: ---------------------  Stack Frames
> ------------------------------------
> [1]PETSC ERROR: Note: The EXACT line numbers in the stack are not
> available,
> [1]PETSC ERROR:       INSTEAD the line number of the start of the function
> [1]PETSC ERROR:       is given.
> [1]PETSC ERROR: [1] SuperLU_DIST:pdgssvx line 467
> /home/mefpp_ericc/petsc-3.9.2-debug/src/mat/impls/aij/mpi/su
> perlu_dist/superlu_dist.c
> [1]PETSC ERROR: [1] MatLUFactorNumeric_SuperLU_DIST line 314
> /home/mefpp_ericc/petsc-3.9.2-debug/src/mat/impls/aij/mpi/su
> perlu_dist/superlu_dist.c
> [1]PETSC ERROR: [1] MatLUFactorNumeric line 3014
> /home/mefpp_ericc/petsc-3.9.2-debug/src/mat/interface/matrix.c
> [1]PETSC ERROR: [1] PCSetUp_LU line 59 /home/mefpp_ericc/petsc-3.9.2-
> debug/src/ksp/pc/impls/factor/lu/lu.c
> [1]PETSC ERROR: [1] PCSetUp line 885 /home/mefpp_ericc/petsc-3.9.2-
> debug/src/ksp/pc/interface/precon.c
> [1]PETSC ERROR: [1] KSPSetUp line 294 /home/mefpp_ericc/petsc-3.9.2-
> debug/src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
> [1]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> [1]PETSC ERROR: Signal received
> [1]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html
> for trouble shooting.
> [1]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.9.2, May, 20, 2018
> [1]PETSC ERROR: ./ex6 on a  named lorien by eric Tue May 22 10:39:15 2018
> [1]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --prefix=/opt/petsc-3.9.2_debug_openmpi-1.10.2
> --with-mpi-compilers=1 --with-mpi-dir=/opt/openmpi-1.10.2
> --with-make-np=12 --with-shared-libraries=1 --with-debugging=yes
> --with-memalign=64 --with-visibility=0 --with-64-bit-indices=0
> --download-ml=yes --download-mumps=yes --download-superlu=yes
> --download-superlu_dist=yes --download-parmetis=yes --download-ptscotch=yes
> --download-metis=yes --download-suitesparse=yes --download-hypre=yes
> --with-blaslapack-dir=/opt/intel/composer_xe_2015.2.164/mkl/lib/intel64
> --with-mkl_pardiso-dir=/opt/intel/composer_xe_2015.2.164/mkl
> --with-mkl_cpardiso-dir=/opt/intel/composer_xe_2015.2.164/mkl
> --with-scalapack=1 --with-scalapack-include=/opt/
> intel/composer_xe_2015.2.164/mkl/include --with-scalapack-lib="-L/opt/i
> ntel/composer_xe_2015.2.164/mkl/lib/intel64 -lmkl_scalapack_lp64
> -lmkl_blacs_openmpi_lp64"
> [1]PETSC ERROR: #1 User provided function() line 0 in  unknown file
> ...
>
> The given Matrix+Vector are available here:
>
> http://www.giref.ulaval.ca/~ericc/bug_superlu_dist_parallel_
> factorisation/AssembleurGD_resolution_no_0_0
>
> http://www.giref.ulaval.ca/~ericc/bug_superlu_dist_parallel_
> factorisation/AssembleurGD_resolution_no_0_0.info
>
> If I run with -on_error_attach_debugger, I can see a division by zero here:
>
> #8  <signal handler called>
> (gdb)
> #9  0x00007f96a2148e52 in libmetis__FM_2WayCutRefine (ctrl=0x2784d20,
> graph=0x2784940, ntpwgts=0x7ffdfa323060, niter=4)
>     at /home/mefpp_ericc/petsc-3.9.2-debug/arch-linux2-c-debug/exte
> rnalpackages/git.metis/libmetis/fm.c:60
> 60        avgvwgt = gk_min((pwgts[0]+pwgts[1])/20,
> 2*(pwgts[0]+pwgts[1])/nvtxs);
>
> and nvtxs value is "0"...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric
>
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