I was trying to follow Barry's advice some time ago, but I guess that's not the 
way he meant it. How should I refer to the values contained in x? With 
Distributed Arrays?

Thanks 
Francesco

>>  Even though it will not scale and will deliver slower performance it is 
>> completely possible for you to solve the 3 variable problem using 3 MPI 
>> ranks. Or 10 mpi ranks. You would just create vectors/matrices with 1 degree 
>> of freedom for the first three ranks and no degrees of freedom for the later 
>> ranks. During your function evaluation (and Jacobian evaluation) for TS you 
>> will need to set up the appropriate communication to get the values you need 
>> on each rank to evaluate the parts of the function evaluation needed by that 
>> rank. This is true for parallelizing any computation.
>> 
>>  Barry



> Il giorno 20 apr 2021, alle ore 15:40, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> ha 
> scritto:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:36 AM Francesco Brarda <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi!
> I tried to implement the SIR model taking into account the fact that I will 
> only use 3 MPI ranks at this moment.
> I built vectors and matrices following the examples already available. In 
> particular, I defined the functions required similarly (RHSFunction, 
> IFunction, IJacobian), as follows:
> 
> I don't think this makes sense. You use "mybase" to distinguish between 3 
> procs, which would indicate that each procs has only
> 1 degree of freedom. However, you use x[1] on each proc, indicating it has at 
> least 2 dofs.
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>      Matt
>  
> static PetscErrorCode RHSFunction(TS ts,PetscReal t,Vec X,Vec F,void *ctx)
> { 
>   PetscErrorCode    ierr;
>   AppCtx            *appctx = (AppCtx*) ctx;
>   PetscScalar       f;//, *x_localptr; 
>   const PetscScalar *x;
>   PetscInt          mybase;
>   
>   PetscFunctionBeginUser;
>   ierr = VecGetOwnershipRange(X,&mybase,NULL);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   ierr = VecGetArrayRead(X,&x);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   if (mybase == 0) {
>     f    = (PetscScalar) (-appctx->p1*x[0]*x[1]/appctx->N);
>     ierr = VecSetValues(F,1,&mybase,&f,INSERT_VALUES);
>   }
>   if (mybase == 1) {
>     f    = (PetscScalar) (appctx->p1*x[0]*x[1]/appctx->N-appctx->p2*x[1]);
>     ierr = VecSetValues(F,1,&mybase,&f,INSERT_VALUES);
>   }
>   if (mybase == 2) {
>     f    = (PetscScalar) (appctx->p2*x[1]);
>     ierr = VecSetValues(F,1,&mybase,&f,INSERT_VALUES);
>   }
>   ierr = VecRestoreArrayRead(X,&x);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   ierr = VecAssemblyBegin(F);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   ierr = VecAssemblyEnd(F);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   PetscFunctionReturn(0);
> }
> 
> 
> Whilst for the Jacobian I did:
> 
> 
> static PetscErrorCode IJacobian(TS ts,PetscReal t,Vec X,Vec Xdot,PetscReal 
> a,Mat A,Mat B,void *ctx)
> { 
>   PetscErrorCode    ierr;
>   AppCtx            *appctx = (AppCtx*) ctx;
>   PetscInt          mybase, rowcol[] = {0,1,2};
>   const PetscScalar *x;
>   
>   PetscFunctionBeginUser;
>   ierr = MatGetOwnershipRange(B,&mybase,NULL);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   ierr = VecGetArrayRead(X,&x);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   if (mybase == 0) {
>     const PetscScalar J[] = {a + appctx->p1*x[1]/appctx->N, 
> appctx->p1*x[0]/appctx->N, 0};
>     ierr = MatSetValues(B,1,&mybase,3,rowcol,J,INSERT_VALUES);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   }
>   if (mybase == 1) {
>     const PetscScalar J[] = {- appctx->p1*x[1]/appctx->N, a - 
> appctx->p1*x[0]/appctx->N + appctx->p2, 0};
>     ierr = MatSetValues(B,1,&mybase,3,rowcol,J,INSERT_VALUES);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   }
>   if (mybase == 2) {
>     const PetscScalar J[] = {0, - appctx->p2, a};
>     ierr = MatSetValues(B,1,&mybase,3,rowcol,J,INSERT_VALUES);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   }
>   ierr    = VecRestoreArrayRead(X,&x);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   
>   ierr = MatAssemblyBegin(A,MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   ierr = MatAssemblyEnd(A,MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   if (A != B) {
>     ierr = MatAssemblyBegin(B,MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>     ierr = MatAssemblyEnd(B,MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>   }
>   PetscFunctionReturn(0);
> }
> 
> This code does not provide the correct result, that is, the solution is the 
> initial condition, either using implicit or explicit methods. Is the way I 
> defined these objects wrong? How can I fix it? 
> I also tried to print the Jacobian with the following commands but it does 
> not work (blank rows and error message). How should I print the Jacobian?
> 
> ierr = TSGetIJacobian(ts,NULL,&K, NULL, NULL); CHKERRQ(ierr);
> ierr = MatAssemblyBegin(K,MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
> ierr = MatAssemblyEnd(K,MAT_FINAL_ASSEMBLY);CHKERRQ(ierr);
> ierr = MatView(K,PETSC_VIEWER_STDOUT_WORLD);CHKERRQ(ierr);                    
>         
> 
> I would very much appreciate any kind of help or advice.
> Best,
> Francesco
> 
>> Il giorno 2 apr 2021, alle ore 04:45, Barry Smith <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 1, 2021, at 9:17 PM, Zhang, Hong via petsc-users 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 31, 2021, at 2:53 AM, Francesco Brarda <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone!
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to solve a system of 3 ODEs (a basic SIR model) with TS. 
>>>> Sequentially works pretty well, but I need to switch it into a parallel 
>>>> version. 
>>>> I started working with TS not very long time ago, there are few questions 
>>>> I’d like to share with you and if you have any advices I’d be happy to 
>>>> hear.
>>>> First of all, do I need to use a DM object even if the model is only time 
>>>> dependent? All the examples I found were using that object for the other 
>>>> variable when solving PDEs.
>>> 
>>> Are you considering SIR on a spatial domain? If so, you can parallelize 
>>> your model in the spatial domain using DM. Splitting the three variables in 
>>> the ODE among processors would not scale.
>> 
>>  Even though it will not scale and will deliver slower performance it is 
>> completely possible for you to solve the 3 variable problem using 3 MPI 
>> ranks. Or 10 mpi ranks. You would just create vectors/matrices with 1 degree 
>> of freedom for the first three ranks and no degrees of freedom for the later 
>> ranks. During your function evaluation (and Jacobian evaluation) for TS you 
>> will need to set up the appropriate communication to get the values you need 
>> on each rank to evaluate the parts of the function evaluation needed by that 
>> rank. This is true for parallelizing any computation.
>> 
>>  Barry
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hong (Mr.)  
>>> 
>>>> When I preallocate the space for the Jacobian matrix, is it better to 
>>>> decide the local or global space?
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> Francesco
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments 
> lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
> 
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