Ok great, thanks for the explanation! Best, Yuyun
From: Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 7:31 AM To: Yuyun Yang <yyan...@stanford.edu> Cc: Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov>; petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov Subject: Re: [petsc-users] ASCIIRead error for multiple processors On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 10:27 AM Yuyun Yang <yyan...@stanford.edu<mailto:yyan...@stanford.edu>> wrote: Hmm ok. Then should I use this function or not when I'm reading the input? It's probably still going to give me the same error and unable to proceed? I'd like to know if I should use something else to work around this problem. No, what you do is if (!rank) { PetscViewerASCIIRead(); MPI_Bcast(); } else { MPI_Bcast(); } Thanks, Matt Thanks, Yuyun Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com<mailto:knep...@gmail.com>> Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 5:16:12 AM To: Yuyun Yang Cc: Smith, Barry F.; petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] ASCIIRead error for multiple processors On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:56 PM Yuyun Yang <yyan...@stanford.edu<mailto:yyan...@stanford.edu>> wrote: So do I call MPI_Bcast right after I call PetscViewerASCIIRead? Is that going to prevent the other processors from trying to read the same file but were unable to? No, all this does is replicate data from process 0 on the other processes. Matt Thanks, Yuyun Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com<mailto:knep...@gmail.com>> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 7:30:20 PM To: Yuyun Yang Cc: Smith, Barry F.; petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] ASCIIRead error for multiple processors On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:19 PM Yuyun Yang via petsc-users <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov>> wrote: We are probably not going to use hundreds of processors, but i think it would be good to just have processor 0 read the input and broadcast that to all the other processors. Would that be a possible fix? And what would you suggest to work around this problem for now? Explicitly call MPI_Bcast(). Matt Thanks! Yuyun Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Smith, Barry F. <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:bsm...@mcs.anl.gov>> Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2019 3:07:37 PM To: Yuyun Yang Cc: petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> Subject: Re: [petsc-users] ASCIIRead error for multiple processors Currently PetscViewerFileSetName_ASCII() only opens the file on process 0 (for read or write) thus when you call PetscViewerASCIIRead() from any process but the first it will be reading from an fd that has not been set and you could get unpredictable results. The implementation and documentation for PetscViewerASCIIRead() is buggy. There are two possible fixes we could make 1) have PetscViewerFileSetName_ASCII() open the file for reading on all processes or 2) have PetscViewerASCIIRead() generate an error if the process is not rank == 0 Barry Note that using PetscViewerASCIIRead() from a handful of processes is probably fine but having hundreds or thousands of processes open the same ASCII file and reading from it will likely not be scalable. > On Apr 4, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Yuyun Yang via petsc-users > <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov<mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov>> wrote: > > Hello team, > > I’m trying to use PetscViewerASCIIRead() to read in a single interger/scalar > value from an input file. It works for one processor. However, when running > on multiple processors, I’m getting the below error: > > [1]PETSC ERROR: Invalid argument > [1]PETSC ERROR: Insufficient data, read only 0 < 1 items > [1]PETSC ERROR: #1 PetscViewerASCIIRead() line 1054 in > /usr/local/CLAB-2/petsc-3.6/src/sys/classes/viewer/impls/ascii/filev.c > > Is there something wrong with how I’m implementing this, or ASCIIRead does > not work with multiple processors? > > Thanks, > Yuyun -- 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 https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/<http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/> -- 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 https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/<http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/> -- 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 https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/<http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
