> On Jan 10, 2023, at 2:19 PM, Mark Lohry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Is DILU a point-block method? We have -pc_type pbjacobi (and vpbjacobi if 
>> the node size is not uniform). The are good choices for scale-resolving CFD 
>> on GPUs.
> 
> I was hoping you'd know :)  pbjacobi is underperforming ilu by a pretty wide 
> margin on some of the systems i'm looking at.
> 
>> We don't have colored smoothers currently in PETSc.
> 
> So what happens under the hood when I run -mg_levels_pc_type sor on GPU? Are 
> you actually decomposing the matrix into lower and computing updates with 
> matrix multiplications? Or is it just the standard serial algorithm with 
> thread safety ignored?

  It is running the regular SOR on the CPU and needs to copy up the vector and 
copy down the result.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 1:52 PM Barry Smith <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>   We don't have colored smoothers currently in PETSc.
>> 
>> > On Jan 10, 2023, at 12:56 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected] 
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Is DILU a point-block method? We have -pc_type pbjacobi (and vpbjacobi if 
>> > the node size is not uniform). The are good choices for scale-resolving 
>> > CFD on GPUs.
>> > 
>> > Mark Lohry <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
>> > 
>> >> I'm running GAMG with CUDA, and I'm wondering how the nominally serial
>> >> smoother algorithms are implemented on GPU? Specifically SOR/GS and ILU(0)
>> >> -- in e.g. AMGx these are applied by first creating a coloring, and the
>> >> smoother passes are done color by color. Is this how it's done in petsc 
>> >> AMG?
>> >> 
>> >> Tangential, AMGx and OpenFOAM offer something called "DILU", diagonal ILU.
>> >> Is there an equivalent in petsc?
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Mark
>> 

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