Bruno,

On Monday, March 4, 2019 at 7:41:27 AM UTC-5, Bruno Blais wrote:
>
> 2. Furthermore, when you compile Trilinos with OpenMP and you try to 
> compile the latest version of DEAL.II, you get a compilation error when 
> ".hpp" from Kokkos are included. The error reads something like:
> Kokkos was compiled with Openmp but the compiler did not pass an openmp 
> flag.
>
> This can be easily fixed by manually adding -fopenmp to the CXX flags used 
> by dealii. However, would it not be a better idea to add a 
> DEALII_ENABLE_OpenMP Flag directly in the cmake to ensure that if you put 
> that flag on, the -fopenmp flag is enabled?
> Maybe I missed such an option. It just made me unsure if I was doing 
> something supported or not.
>
deal.II does not use OpenMP for multithreading so if -fopenmp is missing 
it's because Trilinos did not export it correctly. Unless you mean that you 
include Kokkos in your own code? In that case you are responsible for the 
flags if you use OpenMP. 

>
> 3. When compiled with OpenMP, I got deceptively poor performances, but 
> maybe this is because of the relatively small size of my application. I 
> would have (naively maybe) expected that the time to solver a linear system 
> with GMRES using 1 MPI with 4 OMP threads would have been lower than the 
> time it takes with 4 MPI and on my application this was not the case. I was 
> surprised because I was expecting my ILU Preconditioning to work better on 
> lower amount of cores, but maybe this is related to fill-in or other issues?
>
Two things here:
  1) Which package are using? The Epetra stack does not support OpenMP so 
you can compile with OpenMP but it won't be used.
  2) Why do you think that OpenMP would be faster than MPI? MPI is usually 
faster than OpenMP unless you are very careful about your data management.

Best,

Bruno

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