[petsc-users] Error using Metis with PETSc installed with MUMPS

Pierre Jolivet pierre at joliv.et
Tue Nov 7 14:24:50 CST 2023



> On 7 Nov 2023, at 8:47 PM, Victoria Rolandi <victoria.rolandi93 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I am now trying to configure PETSc with the same METIS/ParMETIS of my main code. 
> 
> I get the following error, and I still get it even if I change the option --with-precision=double/--with-precision=single
> 
> Metis specified is incompatible!
> IDXTYPEWIDTH=64 metis build appears to be specified for a default 32-bit-indices build of PETSc.
> Suggest using --download-metis for a compatible metis
> *******************************************************************************
> 
> In the cofigure.log I have: 
> 
> compilation aborted for /tmp/petsc-yxtl_gwd/config.packages.metis/conftest.c (code 2)
> Source:
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include "conffix.h"
> #include "metis.h"
> 
> int main() {
> #if (IDXTYPEWIDTH != 32)
> #error incompatible IDXTYPEWIDTH
> #endif;
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> How could I proceed?

I would use --download-metis and then have your code use METIS from PETSc, not the other way around.

Thanks,
Pierre

> Thanks,
> Victoria 
> 
> 
> 
> Il giorno ven 3 nov 2023 alle ore 11:34 Pierre Jolivet <pierre at joliv.et <mailto:pierre at joliv.et>> ha scritto:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 3 Nov 2023, at 7:28 PM, Victoria Rolandi <victoria.rolandi93 at gmail.com <mailto:victoria.rolandi93 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Pierre, 
>>> 
>>> Sure, I have now installed PETSc with MUMPS and  PT-SCHOTCH, I got some errors at the beginning but then it worked adding --COPTFLAGS="-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L" to the configuration. 
>>> Also, I have compilation errors when I try to use newer versions, so I kept the 3.17.0 for the moment.
>> 
>> You should ask for assistance to get the latest version.
>> (Par)METIS snapshots may have not changed, but the MUMPS one did, with performance improvements.
>> 
>>> Now the parallel ordering works with PT-SCOTCH, however, is it normal that I do not see any difference in the performance compared to sequential ordering ? 
>> 
>> Impossible to tell without you providing actual figures (number of nnz, number of processes, timings with sequential ordering, etc.), but 699k is not that big of a problem, so that is not extremely surprising.
>> 
>>> Also, could the error using Metis/Parmetis be due to the fact that my main code (to which I linked PETSc) uses a different ParMetis than the one separately installed by PETSC during the configuration?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> Hence should I configure PETSc linking ParMetis to the same library used by my main code?    
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Pierre
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Victoria 
>>> 
>>> Il giorno gio 2 nov 2023 alle ore 09:35 Pierre Jolivet <pierre at joliv.et <mailto:pierre at joliv.et>> ha scritto:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2 Nov 2023, at 5:29 PM, Victoria Rolandi <victoria.rolandi93 at gmail.com <mailto:victoria.rolandi93 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pierre, 
>>>>> Yes, sorry, I'll keep the list in copy.
>>>>> Launching with those options (-mat_mumps_icntl_28 2 -mat_mumps_icntl_29 2) I get an error during the analysis step. I also launched increasing the memory and I still have the error.
>>>> 
>>>> Oh, OK, that’s bad.
>>>> Would you be willing to give SCOTCH and/or PT-SCOTCH a try?
>>>> You’d need to reconfigure/recompile with --download-ptscotch (and maybe --download-bison depending on your system).
>>>> Then, the option would become either -mat_mumps_icntl_28 2 -mat_mumps_icntl_29 2 (PT-SCOTCH) or -mat_mumps_icntl_7 3 (SCOTCH).
>>>> It may be worth updating PETSc as well (you are using 3.17.0, we are at 3.20.1), though I’m not sure we updated the METIS/ParMETIS snapshots since then, so it may not fix the present issue.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Pierre
>>>> 
>>>>> The calculations stops at :
>>>>> 
>>>>> Entering CMUMPS 5.4.1 from C interface with JOB, N =   1      699150
>>>>>       executing #MPI =      2, without OMP
>>>>> 
>>>>>  =================================================
>>>>>  MUMPS compiled with option -Dmetis
>>>>>  MUMPS compiled with option -Dparmetis
>>>>>  =================================================
>>>>> L U Solver for unsymmetric matrices
>>>>> Type of parallelism: Working host
>>>>> 
>>>>>  ****** ANALYSIS STEP ********
>>>>> 
>>>>>  ** Maximum transversal (ICNTL(6)) not allowed because matrix is distributed
>>>>>  Using ParMETIS for parallel ordering
>>>>>  Structural symmetry is: 90%
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The error:
>>>>> 
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 11 SEGV: Segmentation Violation, probably memory access out of range
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger or -on_error_attach_debugger
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: or see https://petsc.org/release/faq/#valgrind
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: or try http://valgrind.org <http://valgrind.org/> on GNU/linux and Apple MacOS to find memory corruption errors
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: configure using --with-debugging=yes, recompile, link, and run
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: to get more information on the crash.
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Signal received
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See https://petsc.org/release/faq/ for trouble shooting.
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.17.0, unknown
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ./charlin.exe on a  named n1056 by vrolandi Wed Nov  1 11:38:28 2023
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --prefix=/u/home/v/vrolandi/CODES/LIBRARY/packages/petsc/installationDir --with-cc=mpiicc --with-cxx=mpiicpc --with-fc=mpiifort CXXOPTFLAGS=-O3 --with-scalar-type=complex --with-debugging=0 --with-precision=single --download-mumps --download-scalapack --download-parmetis --download-metis
>>>>> 
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: #1 User provided function() at unknown file:0
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Run with -malloc_debug to check if memory corruption is causing the crash.
>>>>> Abort(59) on node 0 (rank 0 in comm 0): application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 59) - process 0
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, 
>>>>> Victoria 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Il giorno mer 1 nov 2023 alle ore 10:33 Pierre Jolivet <pierre at joliv.et <mailto:pierre at joliv.et>> ha scritto:
>>>>>> Victoria, please keep the list in copy.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I am not understanding how can I switch to ParMetis if it does not appear in the options of -mat_mumps_icntl_7.In the options I only have Metis and not ParMetis.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You need to use -mat_mumps_icntl_28 2 -mat_mumps_icntl_29 2
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Barry, I don’t think we can programmatically shut off this warning, it’s guarded by a bunch of KEEP() values, see src/dana_driver.F:4707, which are only settable/gettable by people with access to consortium releases.
>>>>>> I’ll ask the MUMPS people for confirmation.
>>>>>> Note that this warning is only printed to screen with the option -mat_mumps_icntl_4 2 (or higher), so this won’t show up for standard runs.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Pierre
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 1 Nov 2023, at 5:52 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev <mailto:bsmith at petsc.dev>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   Pierre,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>    Could the PETSc MUMPS interface "turn-off" ICNTL(6) in this situation so as to not trigger the confusing warning message from MUMPS?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>   Barry
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Nov 1, 2023, at 12:17 PM, Pierre Jolivet <pierre at joliv.et <mailto:pierre at joliv.et>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 1 Nov 2023, at 3:33 PM, Zhang, Hong via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Victoria,
>>>>>>>>> "** Maximum transversal (ICNTL(6)) not allowed because matrix is distributed
>>>>>>>>> Ordering based on METIS"
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This warning is benign and appears for every run using a sequential partitioner in MUMPS with a MATMPIAIJ.
>>>>>>>> (I’m not saying switching to ParMETIS will not make the issue go away)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Pierre
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> $ ../../../../arch-darwin-c-debug-real/bin/mpirun -n 2 ./ex2 -pc_type lu -mat_mumps_icntl_4 2
>>>>>>>> Entering DMUMPS 5.6.2 from C interface with JOB, N =   1          56
>>>>>>>>       executing #MPI =      2, without OMP
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  =================================================
>>>>>>>>  MUMPS compiled with option -Dmetis
>>>>>>>>  MUMPS compiled with option -Dparmetis
>>>>>>>>  MUMPS compiled with option -Dpord
>>>>>>>>  MUMPS compiled with option -Dptscotch
>>>>>>>>  MUMPS compiled with option -Dscotch
>>>>>>>>  =================================================
>>>>>>>> L U Solver for unsymmetric matrices
>>>>>>>> Type of parallelism: Working host
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  ****** ANALYSIS STEP ********
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  ** Maximum transversal (ICNTL(6)) not allowed because matrix is distributed
>>>>>>>>  Processing a graph of size:        56 with           194 edges
>>>>>>>>  Ordering based on AMF 
>>>>>>>>  WARNING: Largest root node of size        26 not selected for parallel execution
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Leaving analysis phase with  ...
>>>>>>>>  INFOG(1)                                       =               0
>>>>>>>>  INFOG(2)                                       =               0
>>>>>>>> […]
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Try parmetis.
>>>>>>>>> Hong
>>>>>>>>> From: petsc-users <petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:petsc-users-bounces at mcs.anl.gov>> on behalf of Victoria Rolandi <victoria.rolandi93 at gmail.com <mailto:victoria.rolandi93 at gmail.com>>
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 10:30 PM
>>>>>>>>> To: petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>>
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [petsc-users] Error using Metis with PETSc installed with MUMPS
>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>> Hi, 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'm solving a large sparse linear system in parallel and I am using PETSc with MUMPS. I am trying to test different options, like the ordering of the matrix. Everything works if I use the -mat_mumps_icntl_7 2  or -mat_mumps_icntl_7 0 options (with the first one, AMF, performing better than AMD), however when I test METIS -mat_mumps_icntl_7 5 I get an error (reported at the end of the email).
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I have configured PETSc with the following options: 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> --with-cc=mpiicc --with-cxx=mpiicpc --with-fc=mpiifort  --with-scalar-type=complex --with-debugging=0 --with-precision=single --download-mumps --download-scalapack --download-parmetis --download-metis
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> and the installation didn't give any problems.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Could you help me understand why metis is not working? 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>>>>>>> Victoria 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Error:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>  ****** ANALYSIS STEP ********
>>>>>>>>>  ** Maximum transversal (ICNTL(6)) not allowed because matrix is distributed
>>>>>>>>>  Processing a graph of size:    699150 with      69238690 edges
>>>>>>>>>  Ordering based on METIS
>>>>>>>>> 510522 37081376 [100] [10486 699150]
>>>>>>>>> Error! Unknown CType: -1
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 

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