[petsc-users] Vec Ownership ranges with Global Section Offsets

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 08:50:51 CST 2023


On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 9:37 AM Nicholas Arnold-Medabalimi <
narnoldm at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi Matt
>
> I made a typo on the line statVecV(offset) = <set to something> in my
> example, I agree. (I wrote that offhand since the actual assignment is much
> larger) I should be statVecV(offset+1) = <assignment> so I'm confident it's
> not a 1 0 indexing thing.
>
> My question is more related to what is happening in the offsets. c0 and c1
> are pulled using DMplexgetheight stratum, so they are zero-indexed (which
> is why I loop from c0 to (c1-1)).
>
> For the size inquiries. on processor 0
>  Petsc VecGetSize(stateVec)        5390
>

I need to see VecGetLocalSize()

  Matt


>  size(stateVecV)           2640
>
> on processor 1
> Petsc VecGetSize 5390
> size(stateVecV)    2750
>
> It's quite weird to me that processor one can have a positive offset that
> is less than its starting ownership index (in the initial email output).
>
> Thanks for the assistance
> Nicholas
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 9:20 AM Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 2:28 AM Nicholas Arnold-Medabalimi <
>> narnoldm at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Petsc Users,
>>>
>>> I'm working with a dmplex system with a subsampled mesh distributed with
>>> an overlap of 1.
>>>
>>> I'm encountering unusual situations when using VecGetOwnershipRange to
>>> adjust the offset received from a global section. The logic of the
>>> following code is first to get the offset needed to index a global vector
>>> while still being able to check if it is an overlapped cell and skip if
>>> needed while counting the owned cells.
>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> call DMGetGlobalSection(dmplex,section,ierr)
>>> call VecGetArrayF90(stateVec,stateVecV,ierr)
>>> call VecGetOwnershipRange(stateVec,oStart,oEnd,ierr)
>>> do i = c0, (c1-1)
>>>
>>>     call PetscSectionGetOffset(section,i,offset,ierr)
>>>     write(*,*) "cell",i,"offset",offset,'oStart',oStart, offset-oStart
>>>
>>>     if(offset<0) then
>>>         cycle
>>>     endif
>>> offset=offset-oStart
>>> plexcells=plexcells+1
>>> stateVecV(offset)= <set to something> enddo
>>>
>>> I'm noticing some very weird results that I've appended below. The
>>> GetOffset documentation notes that a negative offset indicates an unowned
>>> point (which I use to cycle). However, the offset subtraction with oStart
>>> will yield an illegal index for the Vector access. I see that on the
>>> documentation for GetOwnershipRange, it notes that this may be
>>> "ill-defined"  but I wanted to see if this is type of ill-defined I can
>>> expect or there is just something terribly wrong with my PetscSection.(both
>>> the Vec and Section were produced from DMPlexDistributeField so should by
>>> definition have synchronized section information) I was wondering if there
>>> is a possible output and/or the best way to index the vector. I'm thinking
>>> of subtracting the offset of cell 0 perhaps?
>>>
>>
>> Can you show your vector sizes? Are you sure it is not the fact that F90
>> arrays use 1-based indices, but these are 0-based offsets?
>>
>>   Thanks,
>>
>>      Matt
>>
>>
>>> on rank 0
>>>
>>>  cell           0 offset           0 oStart           0           0
>>>  cell           1 offset          55 oStart           0          55
>>>  cell           2 offset         110 oStart           0         110
>>>  cell           3 offset         165 oStart           0         165
>>>  cell           4 offset         220 oStart           0         220
>>>  cell           5 offset         275 oStart           0         275
>>>  cell           6 offset         330 oStart           0         330
>>>  cell           7 offset         385 oStart           0         385
>>>  cell           8 offset         440 oStart           0         440
>>>  cell           9 offset         495 oStart           0         495
>>>  cell          10 offset         550 oStart           0         550
>>>  cell          11 offset         605 oStart           0         605
>>>  cell          12 offset         660 oStart           0         660
>>>  cell          13 offset         715 oStart           0         715
>>>
>>> and on rank one
>>> cell           0 offset        2475 oStart        2640        -165
>>>  cell           1 offset        2530 oStart        2640        -110
>>>  cell           2 offset        2585 oStart        2640         -55
>>>  cell           3 offset        2640 oStart        2640           0
>>>  cell           4 offset        2695 oStart        2640          55
>>>  cell           5 offset        2750 oStart        2640         110
>>>  cell           6 offset        2805 oStart        2640         165
>>>  cell           7 offset        2860 oStart        2640         220
>>>  cell           8 offset        2915 oStart        2640         275
>>>  cell           9 offset        2970 oStart        2640         330
>>>  cell          10 offset        3025 oStart        2640         385
>>>  cell          11 offset        3080 oStart        2640         440
>>>  cell          12 offset        3135 oStart        2640         495
>>>  cell          13 offset        3190 oStart        2640         550
>>>  cell          14 offset        3245 oStart        2640         605
>>>  cell          15 offset        -771 oStart        2640       -3411
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>> Nicholas
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nicholas Arnold-Medabalimi
>>>
>>> Ph.D. Candidate
>>> Computational Aeroscience Lab
>>> University of Michigan
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>> https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/
>> <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
>>
>
>
> --
> Nicholas Arnold-Medabalimi
>
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Computational Aeroscience Lab
> University of Michigan
>


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experiments lead.
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