The errors do not occur at all with the old Metis 4.0.3. So there must be
some incompatibility between Getfem and Metis 5

- Torquil



On 18 November 2013 15:33, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[email protected]>wrote:

> Ok, I shall take a look at the available MPI-related functions. Thanks for
> the pointer.
>
> When I try the method mesh.get_mpi_region() in one of my simple test
> programs, or when I run tests/elastostatic.cc, with mpiexec -n N, for N>=2,
> I get error messages:
>
> "Input Error: Incorrect ncuts."
>
> E.g. I get it from this test program (from the line that calls
> get_mpi_region):
>
> #include "getfem/getfem_mesh.h"
> #include "getfem/getfem_regular_meshes.h"
> #include "iostream"
> int main()
> {
>     MPI_Init(0,0);
>     getfem::mesh mesh;
>     getfem::regular_mesh(mesh, "GT='GT_PK(2,1)'; NSUBDIV=[4,4]; ORG=[0,0];
> SIZES=[1,1]; NOISED=0");
>     std::cout << mesh.get_mpi_region() << std::endl;
>     MPI_Finalize();
>     return 0;
> }
>
> Running with mpiexec -n 1 is fine. The program then just outputs
> "ALL_CONVEXES".
>
> My Metis is version 5.1.0. Something similar was discussed here:
>
> http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/node/853
>
> Maybe Getfem needs the older Metis 4?
>
> - Torquil
>
>
>
> On 18 November 2013 13:41, Yves Renard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Torquil,
>>
>> With --enable-paralevel=2, metis is called to give a partition of each
>> mesh.
>> The model bricks automatically make the assembly only on the part of the
>> mesh corresponding to the process number.
>> This is done by a call to the following method of getfem_mesh:
>> mesh().intersect_with_mpi_region(rg)
>>
>> But this does not affect the numbering of nodes. In particular, each
>> process have a complete mesh.
>>
>> Yves.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 18/11/2013 12:20, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen a écrit :
>>
>>  Hi!
>>
>>  Should I see a difference in the mesh node enumeration, after having
>> compiled Getfem with --enable-paralevel=2 and Metis support, and my
>> program with -DGETFEM_PARA_LEVEL=2 -DGMM_USES_MPI=1?
>>
>>  According to the documentation, GetFEM should then use Metis to
>> "implicitly partition" the mesh.
>>
>>  Does that mean that the Metis based partitioning goes on behind the
>> scenes and no changes would be seen in mesh.points() when switching
>> between "mpiexec -n 1 ./prog" and "mpiexec -n 4 ./prog"
>>
>>  Best regards
>> Torquil Sørensen
>>
>>
>>
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