> On Mar 26, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Manav Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Barry. I will try that. 
> 
> This is Euler flow equations discretized with SUPG. The mesh is made of 
> 4-noded tetrahedra. The flow parameters correspond to transonic flow. 

  Yes, ILU could easily fail on this and really isn't appropriate.  Likely you 
should be using PCFIELDSPLIT for preconditioning.

  Barry

> 
> -Manav
> 
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The default preconditioner with ILU(0) on each process is not appropriate 
>> for your problem and is producing overflow. Try -sub_pc_type lu and see if 
>> that produces a different result. 
>> 
>> Is this a Stokes-like problem?
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
>>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Manav Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Matt. 
>>> 
>>> Following is the output with: -ksp_monitor_lg_residualnorm -ksp_log 
>>> -ksp_view -ksp_monitor_true_residual -ksp_converged_reason
>>> 
>>> 0 KSP preconditioned resid norm            inf true resid norm 
>>> 2.709083260443e+06 ||r(i)||/||b|| 1.000000000000e+00
>>> Linear solve did not converge due to DIVERGED_NANORINF iterations 0
>>> KSP Object: 12 MPI processes
>>> type: gmres
>>>   GMRES: restart=30, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt 
>>> Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement
>>>   GMRES: happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30
>>> maximum iterations=1000
>>> tolerances:  relative=1e-10, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>> left preconditioning
>>> using nonzero initial guess
>>> using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test
>>> PC Object: 12 MPI processes
>>> type: bjacobi
>>>   block Jacobi: number of blocks = 12
>>>   Local solve is same for all blocks, in the following KSP and PC objects:
>>> KSP Object:  (sub_)   1 MPI processes
>>>   type: preonly
>>>   maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero
>>>   tolerances:  relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000
>>>   left preconditioning
>>>   using NONE norm type for convergence test
>>> PC Object:  (sub_)   1 MPI processes
>>>   type: ilu
>>>     ILU: out-of-place factorization
>>>     0 levels of fill
>>>     tolerance for zero pivot 2.22045e-14
>>>     using diagonal shift on blocks to prevent zero pivot [INBLOCKS]
>>>     matrix ordering: natural
>>>     factor fill ratio given 1, needed 1
>>>       Factored matrix follows:
>>>         Mat Object:           1 MPI processes
>>>           type: seqaij
>>>           rows=667070, cols=667070
>>>           package used to perform factorization: petsc
>>>           total: nonzeros=4.6765e+07, allocated nonzeros=4.6765e+07
>>>           total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>>             using I-node routines: found 133414 nodes, limit used is 5
>>>   linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>>   Mat Object:    ()     1 MPI processes
>>>     type: seqaij
>>>     rows=667070, cols=667070
>>>     total: nonzeros=4.6765e+07, allocated nonzeros=5.473e+07
>>>     total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>>       using I-node routines: found 133414 nodes, limit used is 5
>>> linear system matrix = precond matrix:
>>> Mat Object:  ()   12 MPI processes
>>>   type: mpiaij
>>>   rows=6723030, cols=6723030
>>>   total: nonzeros=4.98852e+08, allocated nonzeros=5.38983e+08
>>>   total number of mallocs used during MatSetValues calls =0
>>>     using I-node (on process 0) routines: found 133414 nodes, limit used is 
>>> 5
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Anything jumps out at you as odd? 
>>> 
>>> -Manav
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Manav Bhatia <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I am using the KSP linear solver for my system of equations, without any 
>>>> command line options at this point. I have checked that the L1 norms of my 
>>>> system matrix and the force vector are finite values, but the KSP solver 
>>>> is returning with an “inf” residual in the very first iteration.
>>>> 
>>>> The problem has 6.7M dofs and I have tried this on multiple machines with 
>>>> different number of nodes with the same result.
>>>> 
>>>>  Is there a reason why the solver would return after the first iteration 
>>>> with an inf?
>>>> 
>>>>  I am not sure on where to start debugging this case, so I would 
>>>> appreciate any pointers.
>>>> 
>>>> For all solver questions, we want to see the output of
>>>> 
>>>> -ksp_view -ksp_monitor_true_residual -ksp_converged_reason
>>>> 
>>>> The problem here would be that there is an error, so we would never see 
>>>> the output
>>>> of -ksp_view and know what solver you are using. If you are using 
>>>> something complex,
>>>> can you try using
>>>> 
>>>> -pc_type jacobi
>>>> 
>>>> and send the output from the options above? Then we can figure out why the 
>>>> other solver
>>>> gets an inf.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>>    Matt
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Manav
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their 
>>>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their 
>>>> experiments lead.
>>>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>> 
>> 
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