On Jan 20, 2015, at 13:24 , Ian Hinder <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 20 Jan 2015, at 19:18, Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> We enabled a new, much scalable implementation of the bboxset class in 
>> Carpet. This class describes sets of "bounding boxes", i.e. the locations 
>> and shapes of the components of Carpet's grids. (This new implementation 
>> requires C++11 features, and is thus only available by default if the C++ 
>> compiler supports the C++11 standard.)
>> 
>> As it turns out, the new class numbers these components differently than the 
>> old code. This numbering scheme is ultimately arbitrary; if there are two 
>> refined regions, then it does not matter for physics which one is labelled 
>> #0 and which one is labelled #1. However, since the old and the new code 
>> differ, some ASCII output will now differ. In the Einstein Toolkit test 
>> cases, this is triggered by the test ml-gw1d-small-amr of PeriodicCarpet. 
>> Inspection shows that, apart from this re-labelling, the test output is 
>> identical.
>> 
>> The new bboxset code has a defined ordering of the bboxes; they are ordered 
>> lexicographically by their upper left corner. (This is implemented in the 
>> "less" functions in bbox.hh and vect.hh, following STL conventions.) The old 
>> code used no particular ordering, although the ordering was guaranteed to 
>> remain the same between runs.
>> 
>> I suggest to ignore the test case failures caused by this transition, and to 
>> update this (and potentially other) test cases.
>> 
>> I plan to update the old bboxset code to explicitly sort bboxes in the same 
>> order.
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> We recently put some work into making the ASCII output from the tests the 
> same independent of the number of processes that they are run on.  This used 
> the fact that the output ordering of components from Carpet was the same 
> under certain conditions.  This was using the old bboxset class.  Do you know 
> if the new bboxset class has the same property?

Ian

Yes, this property does not change. What changes is the order in which the 
bboxes are output. They are now "more sorted" than before.

The test case in question does not use the reduced output format, so that it is 
still dependent on the number of processes.

-erik

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