Ok - a bit more info... I can confirm that it is computing _0_ for the number 
of off-processor nonzeros (n_oz) for every dof....

Derek

On Apr 14, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Derek Gaston wrote:

> It appears as though the SparsityPattern is having trouble with ParallelMesh 
> when reading Nemesis files (mind jog: Nemesis is the parallel Exodus format 
> where each processor reads just its piece of the mesh).  We seem to not be 
> getting the correct number of nonzeros per row... so that when running a 
> problem with -info we see things like this:
> 
> [0] MatAssemblyEnd_SeqAIJ(): Number of mallocs during MatSetValues() is 100
> 
> This doesn't happen when using ParallelMesh to read an Exodus file... only 
> when starting with a decomposed Nemesis file.
> 
> I've tried several things... like disabling our CouplingMatrix (since that 
> uses a different path in SparsityPattern::Build) and even disabling AMR 
> (didn't know if the screwy is_child_on_side() with ParallelMesh was messing 
> things up... also libMesh currently doesn't compile with AMR disabled!  I 
> have patches that make it work that I will commit soon though!).  None of 
> those things work.
> 
> I'm thinking that it could be possible that it's not picking up dofs from 
> RemoteElems properly... so it's not getting the right sparsity pattern around 
> the edges of the parallel pieces of the domain.... but SparsityPattern::Build 
> is fairly dense and I can't quite see where it would be hosed up...
> 
> BTW: Once we get past the first Jacobian evaluation (it's slow because of the 
> mallocs) we have fairly large (~300 million DoF) runs going on 
> multi-thousands of processors (so far up to about 4k... but we're headed to 
> 10k soon!)!  What is the largest solve ever done with libMesh?  This 
> certainly has to be up there... and we're not even to our goal yet!  The 
> scaling is pretty darned good as well (other than the malloc thing).  When I 
> have hard numbers I'll share.
> 
> Derek
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