[petsc-users] Using PetscPartitioner on WINDOWS

[Satish Balay]

Check https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/jobs/6412623047__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZAg_b85bAvm8-TShDMHvxaXIu77pjwlDqU2g9AXQSNNw0gmk3peDktdf8MsGAq3jHLTJHo6WSPGyEe5QrCJ-fN0$  for a successful build of latest petsc-3.20 [i.e release branch in git] with metis and parmetis

Note the usage:

>>>>>
    '--with-cc=cl',
    '--with-cxx=cl',
    '--with-fc=ifort',
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Satish

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, Barry Smith wrote:

> Are you not able to use PETSc 3. 20. 2 ? On Mar 19, 2024, at 5: 27 AM, 程奔 <ctchengben@ mail. scut. edu. cn> wrote: Hi,Barry I try to use PETSc version 3. 19. 5 on windows, but it encounter a problem.
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>   Are you not able to use PETSc 3.20.2 ?
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>       On Mar 19, 2024, at 5:27 AM, 程奔 <ctchengben at mail.scut.edu.cn> wrote:
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> Hi,Barry
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> I try to use PETSc version 3.19.5 on windows, but it encounter a problem.
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>            UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS (see configure.log for details):
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>                               Error configuring METIS with CMake
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> configure.log is attached.
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> Looking forward to your reply!
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> sinserely,
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> Ben.
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>       发件人: "Barry Smith" <bsmith at petsc.dev>
>       发送时间: 2024-03-18 21:11:14 (星期一)
>       收件人: 程奔 <202321009113 at mail.scut.edu.cn>
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>       主题: Re: [petsc-users] Using PetscPartitioner on WINDOWS
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> Please switch to the latest PETSc version, it supports Metis and Parmetis on Windows.
>   Barry
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>       On Mar 17, 2024, at 11:57 PM, 程奔 <202321009113 at mail.scut.edu.cn> wrote:
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> Hello，
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> Recently I try to install PETSc with Cygwin since I'd like to use PETSc with Visual Studio on Windows10 plateform.For the sake of clarity, I firstly list the softwares/packages used below:
> 1. PETSc: version 3.16.5
> 2. VS: version 2022 
> 3. Intel MPI: download Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit and HPC Toolkit
> 4. Cygwin
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> On windows,
> Then I try to calculate a simple cantilever beam  that use Tetrahedral mesh.  So it's  unstructured grid
> I use DMPlexCreateFromFile() to creat dmplex.
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> And then I want to distributing the mesh for using  PETSCPARTITIONERPARMETIS type(in my opinion this PetscPartitioner type maybe the best for dmplex,
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> see fig 1 for my work to see different PetscPartitioner type about a  cantilever beam in Linux system.)
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> But unfortunatly, when i try to use parmetis on windows that configure PETSc as follows
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>  ./configure  --with-debugging=0  --with-cc='win32fe cl' --with-fc='win32fe ifort' --with-cxx='win32fe cl'  
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> --download-fblaslapack=/cygdrive/g/mypetsc/petsc-pkg-fblaslapack-e8a03f57d64c.tar.gz  --with-shared-libraries=0 
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> --with-mpi-include=/cygdrive/g/Intel/oneAPI/mpi/2021.10.0/include
>  --with-mpi-lib=/cygdrive/g/Intel/oneAPI/mpi/2021.10.0/lib/release/impi.lib 
> --with-mpiexec=/cygdrive/g/Intel/oneAPI/mpi/2021.10.0/bin/mpiexec 
> --download-parmetis=/cygdrive/g/mypetsc/petsc-pkg-parmetis-475d8facbb32.tar.gz 
> --download-metis=/cygdrive/g/mypetsc/petsc-pkg-metis-ca7a59e6283f.tar.gz 
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> it shows that 
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> External package metis does not support --download-metis with Microsoft compilers
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> configure.log and make.log is attached
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> If I use PetscPartitioner Simple type the calculate time is much more than PETSCPARTITIONERPARMETIS type.
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> So On windows system I want to use PetscPartitioner like parmetis , if there have any other PetscPartitioner type that can do the same work as parmetis, 
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> or I just try to download parmetis  separatly on windows(like this website , https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://boogie.inm.ras.ru/terekhov/INMOST/-/wikis/0204-Compilation-ParMETIS-Windows__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZAg_b85bAvm8-TShDMHvxaXIu77pjwlDqU2g9AXQSNNw0gmk3peDktdf8MsGAq3jHLTJHo6WSPGyEe5Qgw3sA7A$ ) 
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> and then use Visual Studio to use it's library I don't know in this way PETSc could use it successfully or not.
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> So I wrrit this email to report my problem and ask for your help.
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> Looking forward your reply!
> 
> 
> sinserely,
> Ben.
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