Thanks, Barry.  My blunder with the tests.  Should we still try to do the 
optimization?

Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:

>   Fixed in barry/fix-tscomputerhsjacobianconstant/maint merged to next for 
> nightly testing
>
>   Had I any brains at all I would have had Dominic use git bisect to 
> determine the cause (which was Barry who added an optimization that broke 
> Jed's cool trick for constant Jacobians) and this would have been resolved 
> long ago. Curse on Jed for not adding his test cases, that he did write at 
> least, to the automatic testing list in the makefile.
>
>    Barry
>
>
>> On Mar 23, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>   This problem still exists. What do we do? Broken code that a beginner 
>> could easily start with is not a good thing.
>> 
>>  Barry
>> 
>>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jed and Emil,
>>> 
>>> Yes, this is a terrible mess. The TSComputeRHSJacobianConstant() will only 
>>> work for methods that do not change entries in the Jacobian matrix. And for 
>>> some reason the runex3_4 and _5 which do not work are turned off in the 
>>> makefile !  It looks like Rosw does work because it does not change the 
>>> matrix? And yet it is still turned off? 
>>> 
>>>  I don't know what a good fix is. If we want to keep this capability then 
>>> the TSComputeRHSJacobianConstant() interface has to keep a copy of the 
>>> original user provided matrix and copy it into the matrices used by the 
>>> method each time. This may lead to ugly special case code.
>>> 
>>>  Something has to be done about (simplest thing is just tossing the entire 
>>> concept) because now there is a very broken API in TS that beginning users 
>>> are likely to try and get upset with.
>>> 
>>> Barry
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 26, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Dominic Meiser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm running into problems with TS with a time independent, linear
>>>> rhs.  Following the user's manual, I use
>>>> 
>>>> ierr=TSSetProblemType(ts, TS_LINEAR);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>> ierr=TSSetRHSFunction(ts, 0, TSComputeRHSFunctionLinear, 0);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>> ierr=TSSetRHSJacobian(ts, mat, mat, TSComputeRHSJacobianConstant, 
>>>> 0);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>>>> 
>>>> But running the code I get:
>>>> 
>>>> [dmeiser@ivyamd src]$ ./sd -ts_monitor -snes_monitor 
>>>> -ksp_monitor_true_residual -snes_converged_reason -ts_type beuler 
>>>> -ts_max_steps 20 TS dt 0.01 time 0.
>>>>  0 SNES Function norm 1.433485640883e+00 
>>>>    0 KSP preconditioned resid norm 1.433485640883e-02 true resid norm 
>>>> 1.433485640883e+00 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>>>>    1 KSP preconditioned resid norm 6.528150237447e-18 true resid norm 
>>>> 6.122666587510e-16 ||r(i)||/||b|| 4.271173992185e-16
>>>>  1 SNES Function norm 1.419007435910e+02 
>>>> Nonlinear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ITS iterations 1
>>>> 1 TS dt 0.01 time 0.01
>>>>  0 SNES Function norm 1.433342292319e+02 
>>>> Nonlinear solve did not converge due to DIVERGED_LINEAR_SOLVE iterations 0
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message 
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:  
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: TSStep has failed due to DIVERGED_NONLINEAR_SOLVE, 
>>>> increase -ts_max_snes_failures or make negative to attempt recovery
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html 
>>>> for trouble shooting.
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development GIT revision: pre-tsfc-330-gda8116b  GIT 
>>>> Date: 2016-02-23 15:17:17 -0600
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ./sd on a cplx named ivyamd.txcorp.com by dmeiser Fri Feb 
>>>> 26 11:46:29 2016
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-scalar-type=complex --with-x=0 
>>>> --with-debugging=1 --with-ssl=0 --with-fortran-kernels=0 --with-pthread=0 
>>>> --download-fftw=1 --with-mpi=1 --download-mpich=1 
>>>> --with-mpiuni-fortran-binding=0 --with-fortran-interfaces
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: #1 TSStep() line 3346 in 
>>>> /scr_ivyamd/dmeiser/SD/petsc/src/ts/interface/ts.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: #2 TSSolve() line 3544 in 
>>>> /scr_ivyamd/dmeiser/SD/petsc/src/ts/interface/ts.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: #3 main() line 63 in /scr_ivyamd/dmeiser/SD/src/sd.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PETSc Option Table entries:
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -ksp_monitor_true_residual
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -snes_converged_reason
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -snes_monitor
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -ts_max_steps 2
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -ts_monitor
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -ts_type beuler
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ----------------End of Error Message -------send entire 
>>>> error message to [email protected]
>>>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 91) - process 0
>>>> [unset]: aborting job:
>>>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 91) - process 0
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It seems that the linear system is being solved just fine.  But
>>>> apparently it's the wrong linear problem because the SNES
>>>> function norm doesn't decrease.
>>>> 
>>>> I think the problem might be related to the following behaviour
>>>> of `scr/ts/examples/tutorials/ex3.c`:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [dmeiser@ivyamd tutorials]$ ./ex3 -nox -ts_type beuler -ts_max_steps 2 
>>>> -ksp_converged_reason -snes_monitor
>>>> Solving a linear TS problem on 1 processor
>>>> Timestep   0: step size = 0.000143637, time = 0., 2-norm error = 
>>>> 1.01507e-15, max norm error = 3.10862e-15
>>>>  0 SNES Function norm 2.018485956680e+03 
>>>>  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_RTOL iterations 1
>>>>  1 SNES Function norm 1.207665524289e+05 
>>>> Timestep   1: step size = 0.000143637, time = 0.000143637, 2-norm error = 
>>>> 0.000599907, max norm error = 0.000863771
>>>>  0 SNES Function norm 1.195422385486e+05 
>>>>  Linear solve did not converge due to DIVERGED_PCSETUP_FAILED iterations 0
>>>>                 PCSETUP_FAILED due to FACTOR_NUMERIC_ZEROPIVOT 
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message 
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:  
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: TSStep has failed due to DIVERGED_NONLINEAR_SOLVE, 
>>>> increase -ts_max_snes_failures or make negative to attempt recovery
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html 
>>>> for trouble shooting.
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development GIT revision: pre-tsfc-330-gda8116b  GIT 
>>>> Date: 2016-02-23 15:17:17 -0600
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ./ex3 on a cplx named ivyamd.txcorp.com by dmeiser Fri Feb 
>>>> 26 11:36:28 2016
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-scalar-type=complex --with-x=0 
>>>> --with-debugging=1 --with-ssl=0 --with-fortran-kernels=0 --with-pthread=0 
>>>> --download-fftw=1 --with-mpi=1 --download-mpich=1 
>>>> --with-mpiuni-fortran-binding=0 --with-fortran-interfaces
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: #1 TSStep() line 3346 in 
>>>> /scr_ivyamd/dmeiser/SD/petsc/src/ts/interface/ts.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: #2 TSSolve() line 3544 in 
>>>> /scr_ivyamd/dmeiser/SD/petsc/src/ts/interface/ts.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: #3 main() line 216 in 
>>>> /scr_ivyamd/dmeiser/SD/petsc/src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex3.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: PETSc Option Table entries:
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -ksp_converged_reason
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -nox
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -snes_monitor
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -ts_max_steps 2
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: -ts_type beuler
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: ----------------End of Error Message -------send entire 
>>>> error message to [email protected]
>>>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 91) - process 0
>>>> [unset]: aborting job:
>>>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 91) - process 0
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm aware of Jed's commit e1244c6 which I thought was supposed to
>>>> enable constant linear rhs without IFunction and IJacobian.  Note
>>>> that e1244c6 also added tests that apparently produced very
>>>> different output (see e.g.
>>>> src/ts/examples/tutorials/output/ex3_4.out).
>>>> 
>>>> Is constant rhs without IFunction and IJacobian no longer
>>>> supported or did it just breat at some point?  Do I need to call
>>>> TSRHSJacobianSetReuse in addition to the lines of code above?  Is
>>>> it better to treat such systems using TSComputeIFunctionLinear
>>>> and TSComputeIJacobianConstant?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dominic
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Dominic Meiser
>>>> Tech-X Corporation - 5621 Arapahoe Avenue - Boulder, CO 80303
>>> 
>> 

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