[CIG-SHORT] Rate and State and Initial Traction

Romain Jolivet rjolivet at caltech.edu
Thu Aug 30 14:29:53 PDT 2012


My relative tolerance is now 1e-20, and ksp_atol = 1e-12. 
zero_tolerance = 1e-10 , by default.
PETSc says ksp converges due to atol (no funny stuff due to machine epsilon, then), and the ksp residual norm is 3 orders of magnitude smaller than zero_tolerance, but still the same crash. 

What worries me is that the exact same problem with SlipWeakening instead of RateStateAgeing runs fine, and converges quite fast.

  227 KSP Residual norm 6.958904427869e-12 
  228 KSP Residual norm 6.691327759355e-12 
  229 KSP Residual norm 6.133784618340e-12 
  230 KSP Residual norm 5.231708553237e-12 
  231 KSP Residual norm 3.601477632037e-12 
  232 KSP Residual norm 2.240651195747e-12 
  233 KSP Residual norm 1.382256145050e-12 
  234 KSP Residual norm 1.051621131548e-12 
  235 KSP Residual norm 9.795463232997e-13 
  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ATOL iterations 235
[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message ------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception!
[0]PETSC ERROR: Infinite or not-a-number generated in norm!
[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development HG revision: 3bede28f1195e406d4257c9fbeebefe827793801  HG Date: Mon Jun 11 22:14:12 2012 -0400
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/mpinemesis on a pylith-da named dhcp-74-229.caltech.edu by jolivetinsar Thu Aug 30 14:22:49 2012
[0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from /Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot/lib
[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Tue Jun 12 06:09:00 2012
[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --prefix=/Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --with-sieve=1 --with-c2html=0 --CXXFLAGS=-DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK --with-clanguage=C++ --with-mpicompilers=1 --with-debugging=0 --download-chaco=1 --download-boost=1 --download-ml=1 --with-hdf5=1 --with-hdf5-dir=/Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot --with-x=0 --with-shared-libraries=1
[0]Fatal error. Calling MPI_Abort() to abort PyLith application.
PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: VecNorm() line 169 in src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: VecNormalize() line 263 in src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: KSPGMRESCycle() line 127 in src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve_GMRES() line 231 in src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve() line 446 in src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
[0]PETSC ERROR: _sensitivitySolve() line 2172 in "unknowndirectory/"faults/FaultCohesiveDyn.cc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/apps/PetscApplication.py", line 65, in onComputeNodes
    self.main(*args, **kwds)
  File "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/nemesis: mpirun: exit 255
/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/pylith: /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/nemesis: exit 1


Romain Jolivet
Postdoctoral Scholar
Geological and Planetary Sciences
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 
rjolivet at caltech.edu
+1 (626) 560 6356

On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:19 PM, cig-short-request at geodynamics.org wrote:

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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:14:31 -0700
> From: Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov>
> Subject: Re: [CIG-SHORT] Rate and State and Initial Traction
> To: Matthew Knepley <knepley at mcs.anl.gov>
> Cc: cig-short at geodynamics.org
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> Matt,
> 
> I suggested that Romain change ksp_rtol only, not ksp_atol. The relative 
> tolerance will be small enough so that the absolute tolerance (1.0e-12) 
> will be what stops the KSP solve.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> On 08/30/2012 02:08 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>> Romain,
>>> 
>>> The stacktrace shows which solve is encountering inf or nan. The routine
>>> is _sensitivitySolve(). This is the solve associated with determining
>>> how much to increment the slip to match the friction criterion.
>>> 
>>> However, it looks like the problem is in the KSP solver tolerances. Note
>>> that the solver stops with a residual of 2e-10 due to ksp_rtol being
>>> met. However, the friction_tolerance is (by default) 1.0e-10. The error
>>> in the solution is on the order of 2.0e-10 but the tolerance for
>>> detecting whether a point is slipping is 1.0e-10. You want the error in
>>> the linear solution to be smaller than the tolerance for detecting
>>> sliding. This means you should reduce your ksp_rtol to something much
>>> smaller, like 1.0e-20, to force ksp_atol to control convergence.
>>> Usually, the starting residual is a few orders of magnitude smaller than
>>> what you have so the tolerances I suggested work.
>>> 
>> 
>> Okay, last time I told him not to use anything less than 1e-16 since there
>> are funny effects below roundoff. Could you try 1e-15?
>> 
>> We do need consistency checks in these nested iterations.
>> 
>>   Thanks,
>> 
>>      Matt
>> 
>> 
>>> Bottom line: Quasi-static friction solves generally require the linear
>>> solves to converge due to the absolute tolerance, which *must* be
>>> smaller than the zero_tolerance for friction.
>>> 
>>> We will look into adding more consistency checking into the code to try
>>> and catch these types of errors.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Brad
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 08/30/2012 01:38 PM, Romain Jolivet wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the advice. I changed the preconditioner settings to what you
>>> suggested. I don't see that jump in the linear norm anymore.
>>>> However, I still have the floating point exception problem. This arise
>>> after the first round of ksp.
>>>> 
>>>> In the log file (attached), I see to messages saying the ksp solver for
>>> friction does converge (twice), then the SNES residual norm is printed,
>>> then KSP starts, and when it has to compute the new SNES residual norm, it
>>> says that VecNorm() encoutered a Inf or NAN value:
>>>> 
>>>>    141 KSP Residual norm 1.185626397065e-09
>>>>    142 KSP Residual norm 8.558244459183e-10
>>>>    143 KSP Residual norm 4.537120666370e-10
>>>>    144 KSP Residual norm 2.695590025796e-10
>>>>    145 KSP Residual norm 2.263153111449e-10
>>>>    146 KSP Residual norm 2.156010427246e-10
>>>>    Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_RTOL iterations 146
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception!
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Infinite or not-a-number generated in norm!
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development HG revision:
>>> 3bede28f1195e406d4257c9fbeebefe827793801  HG Date: Mon Jun 11 22:14:12 2012
>>> -0400
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/mpinemesis
>>> on a pylith-da named dhcp-74-229.caltech.edu by jolivetinsar Thu Aug 30
>>> 13:34:55 2012
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from
>>> /Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot/lib
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Tue Jun 12 06:09:00 2012
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options
>>> --prefix=/Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot
>>> --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --with-sieve=1 --with-c2html=0
>>> --CXXFLAGS=-DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK --with-clanguage=C++
>>> --with-mpicompilers=1 --with-debugging=0 --download-chaco=1
>>> --download-boost=1 --download-ml=1 --with-hdf5=1
>>> --with-hdf5-dir=/Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot
>>> --with-x=0 --with-shared-libraries=1
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: VecNorm() line 169 in src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: VecNormalize() line 263 in
>>> src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPGMRESCycle() line 127 in
>>> src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve_GMRES() line 231 in
>>> src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve() line 446 in src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: _sensitivitySolve() line 2172 in
>>> "unknowndirectory/"faults/FaultCohesiveDyn.cc
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>    File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/apps/PetscApplication.py",
>>> line 65, in onComputeNodes
>>>> Fatal error. Calling MPI_Abort() to abort PyLith application.
>>>>      self.main(*args, **kwds)
>>>>    File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/apps/PyLithApp.py",
>>> line 119, in main
>>>>      self.problem.run(self)
>>>>    File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/TimeDependent.py",
>>> line 154, in run
>>>>      self.formulation.step(t, dt)
>>>>    File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/Implicit.py",
>>> line 219, in step
>>>>      self.solver.solve(dispIncr, self.jacobian, residual)
>>>>    File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/problems.py",
>>> line 180, in solve
>>>>      def solve(self, *args): return
>>> _problems.SolverNonlinear_solve(self, *args)
>>>> RuntimeError: std::exception
>>>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, -1) - process 0
>>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/nemesis:
>>> mpirun: exit 255
>>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/pylith:
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/nemesis:
>>> exit 1
>>>> 
>>>> Any idea?
>>>> Romain
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Romain Jolivet
>>>> Postdoctoral Scholar
>>>> Geological and Planetary Sciences
>>>> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
>>>> rjolivet at caltech.edu
>>>> +1 (626) 560 6356
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 30, 2012, at 12:00 PM, cig-short-request at geodynamics.org wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Send CIG-SHORT mailing list submissions to
>>>>>      cig-short at geodynamics.org
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>>>>> 
>>>>> Today's Topics:
>>>>> 
>>>>>    1. Re: Rate and State and Initial Traction (Brad Aagaard)
>>>>>    2. Fwd:  Rate and State and Initial Traction (Matthew Knepley)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>> Message: 1
>>>>> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:36:08 -0700
>>>>> From: Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [CIG-SHORT] Rate and State and Initial Traction
>>>>> To: cig-short at geodynamics.org
>>>>> Message-ID: <503E6F28.6050001 at usgs.gov>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>>> 
>>>>> Romain,
>>>>> 
>>>>> It looks like you are using Schur complement preconditioner settings.
>>>>> The jump in the KSP residual at iteration 10 is odd and suggests
>>>>> something is not quite right in the linear solve (probably related to
>>>>> the preconditioner). Try using the AMG preconditioner. It may not be
>>>>> quite as fast but it is more robust. Matt can probably help you tune the
>>>>> Schur complement solver conditions some more if necessary.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Your SNES tolerances are quite large. I suggest using tolerances similar
>>>>> to those in examples/3d/hex8/step14.cfg.
>>>>> 
>>>>> SOLVER TOLERANCES
>>>>> 
>>>>> ksp_rtol = 1.0e-16
>>>>> ksp_atol = 1.0e-12
>>>>> 
>>>>> snes_rtol = 1.0e-14
>>>>> snes_atol = 1.0e-10
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> AMG PRECONDITIONER SETTINGS
>>>>> 
>>>>> [pylithapp.timedependent.formulation]
>>>>> split_fields = True
>>>>> matrix_type = aij
>>>>> 
>>>>> [pylithapp.petsc]
>>>>> ksp_gmres_restart = 100
>>>>> fs_pc_type = fieldsplit
>>>>> fs_pc_fieldsplit_real_diagonal = true
>>>>> fs_pc_fieldsplit_type = multiplicative
>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_0_pc_type = ml
>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_1_pc_type = jacobi
>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_0_ksp_type = preonly
>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_1_ksp_type = preonly
>>>>> 
>>>>> Brad
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 08/29/2012 11:42 AM, Romain Jolivet wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Brad, Matt, Charles and the pylith team,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Following your advice from the other day, I am experimenting  how to
>>> create earthquakes on a frictional interface by applying a traction change
>>> history. It works fine with the SlipWeakening law in 2D. I'm trying to move
>>> on to the RateStateAgeing behavior and I have problems applying the initial
>>> traction conditions:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I use a SimpleDB to apply the frictional properties on the fault: one
>>> domain is rate-strengthening, the other is rate-weakening with a linear
>>> transition between the two domains. If I do not try to turn on any
>>> traction_perturbation option, the code runs great, and I have a slow slip
>>> all the along the fault at any time.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As I want the rate-weakening domain to be stuck sometimes, I want to
>>> turn on traction_perturbation.db_initial. I use a SimpleDB to put a
>>> negative traction all along the fault, and a shear traction compatible with
>>> the friction coefficients I impose. However, when I run this, I have the
>>> following error message from PETSc (I attach the log):
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/Implicit.py:215:step
>>>>>>   -- implicit(info)
>>>>>>   -- Solving equations.
>>>>>>    0 SNES Function norm 2.679589636063e+01
>>>>>>      0 KSP Residual norm 9.637565795900e-01
>>>>>>      1 KSP Residual norm 3.564937135471e-08
>>>>>>      2 KSP Residual norm 4.313963401911e-16
>>>>>>      3 KSP Residual norm 3.050427683646e-16
>>>>>>      4 KSP Residual norm 2.490663081181e-16
>>>>>>      5 KSP Residual norm 2.156976950523e-16
>>>>>>      6 KSP Residual norm 1.929258577738e-16
>>>>>>      7 KSP Residual norm 1.761163907914e-16
>>>>>>      8 KSP Residual norm 1.630520838230e-16
>>>>>>      9 KSP Residual norm 1.525212509706e-16
>>>>>>     10 KSP Residual norm 1.833325155789e-11
>>>>>>     11 KSP Residual norm 7.039784754868e-23
>>>>>>    Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ATOL iterations 11
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception!
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Infinite or not-a-number generated in norm!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If anyone has an idea about that error message....
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think it has to do with some slip vector. If I set
>>> friction.min_slip_rate=1e-1, this problem does not happen (the nonlinear
>>> solver does not converge, but at least, no crash). If I set the normal
>>> traction to be positive, it does not crash as well (and it does not
>>> converge as well). I join to this message the cfg file I am using for that
>>> experiment.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> Romain
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Romain Jolivet
>>>>>> Postdoctoral Scholar
>>>>>> Geological and Planetary Sciences
>>>>>> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
>>>>>> rjolivet at caltech.edu
>>>>>> +1 (626) 560 6356
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>> 
>>>>> Message: 2
>>>>> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:09:25 -0500
>>>>> From: Matthew Knepley <knepley at mcs.anl.gov>
>>>>> Subject: [CIG-SHORT] Fwd:  Rate and State and Initial Traction
>>>>> To: cig-short at geodynamics.org
>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>>      <CAMYG4GkMcUqRjhMaYZ8Ooj-x=
>>> 06QKFrc7fiwW1dStmDSDO1qWA at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Romain,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It looks like you are using Schur complement preconditioner settings.
>>>>>> The jump in the KSP residual at iteration 10 is odd and suggests
>>>>>> something is not quite right in the linear solve (probably related to
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Brad is right that the tolerances here will produce some garbage. Going
>>>>> below
>>>>> machine epsilon (about 10^-16) means you get randomness and ultimately
>>>>> underflow which I think you got in a norm calculation since things get
>>>>> squared.
>>>>> The solver should have converged on iterate 2, and will with the
>>> tolerances
>>>>> that
>>>>> Brad suggested.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>>      Matt
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> the preconditioner). Try using the AMG preconditioner. It may not be
>>>>>> quite as fast but it is more robust. Matt can probably help you tune
>>> the
>>>>>> Schur complement solver conditions some more if necessary.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Your SNES tolerances are quite large. I suggest using tolerances
>>> similar
>>>>>> to those in examples/3d/hex8/step14.cfg.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> SOLVER TOLERANCES
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ksp_rtol = 1.0e-16
>>>>>> ksp_atol = 1.0e-12
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> snes_rtol = 1.0e-14
>>>>>> snes_atol = 1.0e-10
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> AMG PRECONDITIONER SETTINGS
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [pylithapp.timedependent.formulation]
>>>>>> split_fields = True
>>>>>> matrix_type = aij
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [pylithapp.petsc]
>>>>>> ksp_gmres_restart = 100
>>>>>> fs_pc_type = fieldsplit
>>>>>> fs_pc_fieldsplit_real_diagonal = true
>>>>>> fs_pc_fieldsplit_type = multiplicative
>>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_0_pc_type = ml
>>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_1_pc_type = jacobi
>>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_0_ksp_type = preonly
>>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_1_ksp_type = preonly
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Brad
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 08/29/2012 11:42 AM, Romain Jolivet wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello Brad, Matt, Charles and the pylith team,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Following your advice from the other day, I am experimenting  how to
>>>>>> create earthquakes on a frictional interface by applying a traction
>>> change
>>>>>> history. It works fine with the SlipWeakening law in 2D. I'm trying to
>>> move
>>>>>> on to the RateStateAgeing behavior and I have problems applying the
>>> initial
>>>>>> traction conditions:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I use a SimpleDB to apply the frictional properties on the fault: one
>>>>>> domain is rate-strengthening, the other is rate-weakening with a linear
>>>>>> transition between the two domains. If I do not try to turn on any
>>>>>> traction_perturbation option, the code runs great, and I have a slow
>>> slip
>>>>>> all the along the fault at any time.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As I want the rate-weakening domain to be stuck sometimes, I want to
>>>>>> turn on traction_perturbation.db_initial. I use a SimpleDB to put a
>>>>>> negative traction all along the fault, and a shear traction compatible
>>> with
>>>>>> the friction coefficients I impose. However, when I run this, I have
>>> the
>>>>>> following error message from PETSc (I attach the log):
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/Implicit.py:215:step
>>>>>>>   -- implicit(info)
>>>>>>>   -- Solving equations.
>>>>>>>    0 SNES Function norm 2.679589636063e+01
>>>>>>>      0 KSP Residual norm 9.637565795900e-01
>>>>>>>      1 KSP Residual norm 3.564937135471e-08
>>>>>>>      2 KSP Residual norm 4.313963401911e-16
>>>>>>>      3 KSP Residual norm 3.050427683646e-16
>>>>>>>      4 KSP Residual norm 2.490663081181e-16
>>>>>>>      5 KSP Residual norm 2.156976950523e-16
>>>>>>>      6 KSP Residual norm 1.929258577738e-16
>>>>>>>      7 KSP Residual norm 1.761163907914e-16
>>>>>>>      8 KSP Residual norm 1.630520838230e-16
>>>>>>>      9 KSP Residual norm 1.525212509706e-16
>>>>>>>     10 KSP Residual norm 1.833325155789e-11
>>>>>>>     11 KSP Residual norm 7.039784754868e-23
>>>>>>>    Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ATOL iterations 11
>>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>>>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception!
>>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Infinite or not-a-number generated in norm!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If anyone has an idea about that error message....
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I think it has to do with some slip vector. If I set
>>>>>> friction.min_slip_rate=1e-1, this problem does not happen (the
>>> nonlinear
>>>>>> solver does not converge, but at least, no crash). If I set the normal
>>>>>> traction to be positive, it does not crash as well (and it does not
>>>>>> converge as well). I join to this message the cfg file I am using for
>>> that
>>>>>> experiment.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>> Romain
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Romain Jolivet
>>>>>>> Postdoctoral Scholar
>>>>>>> Geological and Planetary Sciences
>>>>>>> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
>>>>>>> rjolivet at caltech.edu
>>>>>>> +1 (626) 560 6356
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:19:45 -0500
> From: Matthew Knepley <knepley at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: [CIG-SHORT] Rate and State and Initial Traction
> To: Romain Jolivet <rjolivet at caltech.edu>
> Cc: cig-short at geodynamics.org
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> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Romain Jolivet <rjolivet at caltech.edu>wrote:
> 
>> I did just run:
>> 
>> pylith step01.cfg --petsc.fp_trap=0
>> 
>> Is that what you meant? If it is, I still have the same problem :-) and it
>> does not change what I see on the screen. Should it change something?\
>> 
> 
> Then it is not underflow.
> 
> 
>> However, the norm computation problem does not appear when I set the
>> zero_tolerance to 1.0 (it does not converge though, but I don't have this
>> Floating point exception...)
>> 
> 
> As Brad says, change the relative tolerance, but leave the absolute
> tolerance intact.
> 
>  Matt
> 
> 
>> Romain
>> 
>> 
>> Romain Jolivet
>> Postdoctoral Scholar
>> Geological and Planetary Sciences
>> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
>> rjolivet at caltech.edu
>> +1 (626) 560 6356
>> 
>> On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Matthew Knepley wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Romain Jolivet <rjolivet at caltech.edu>wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for the advice. I changed the preconditioner settings to what you
>>> suggested. I don't see that jump in the linear norm anymore.
>>> However, I still have the floating point exception problem. This arise
>>> after the first round of ksp.
>>> 
>>> In the log file (attached), I see to messages saying the ksp solver for
>>> friction does converge (twice), then the SNES residual norm is printed,
>>> then KSP starts, and when it has to compute the new SNES residual norm, it
>>> says that VecNorm() encoutered a Inf or NAN value:
>>> 
>> 
>> It could still be underflow. Try running with --petsc.fp_trap=0
>> 
>>  Thanks,
>> 
>>      Matt
>> 
>> 
>>>  141 KSP Residual norm 1.185626397065e-09
>>>  142 KSP Residual norm 8.558244459183e-10
>>>  143 KSP Residual norm 4.537120666370e-10
>>>  144 KSP Residual norm 2.695590025796e-10
>>>  145 KSP Residual norm 2.263153111449e-10
>>>  146 KSP Residual norm 2.156010427246e-10
>>>  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_RTOL iterations 146
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception!
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Infinite or not-a-number generated in norm!
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Development HG revision:
>>> 3bede28f1195e406d4257c9fbeebefe827793801  HG Date: Mon Jun 11 22:14:12 2012
>>> -0400
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/mpinemesis
>>> on a pylith-da named dhcp-74-229.caltech.edu by jolivetinsar Thu Aug 30
>>> 13:34:55 2012
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from
>>> /Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot/lib
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Tue Jun 12 06:09:00 2012
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options
>>> --prefix=/Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot
>>> --download-f-blas-lapack=1 --with-sieve=1 --with-c2html=0
>>> --CXXFLAGS=-DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK --with-clanguage=C++
>>> --with-mpicompilers=1 --with-debugging=0 --download-chaco=1
>>> --download-boost=1 --download-ml=1 --with-hdf5=1
>>> --with-hdf5-dir=/Users/buildbot/install/pylith_darwin_10.6_binbot
>>> --with-x=0 --with-shared-libraries=1
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: VecNorm() line 169 in src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: VecNormalize() line 263 in src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPGMRESCycle() line 127 in
>>> src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve_GMRES() line 231 in
>>> src/ksp/ksp/impls/gmres/gmres.c
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: KSPSolve() line 446 in src/ksp/ksp/interface/itfunc.c
>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: _sensitivitySolve() line 2172 in
>>> "unknowndirectory/"faults/FaultCohesiveDyn.cc
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/apps/PetscApplication.py",
>>> line 65, in onComputeNodes
>>> Fatal error. Calling MPI_Abort() to abort PyLith application.
>>>    self.main(*args, **kwds)
>>>  File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/apps/PyLithApp.py",
>>> line 119, in main
>>>    self.problem.run(self)
>>>  File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/TimeDependent.py",
>>> line 154, in run
>>>    self.formulation.step(t, dt)
>>>  File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/Implicit.py",
>>> line 219, in step
>>>    self.solver.solve(dispIncr, self.jacobian, residual)
>>>  File
>>> "/Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/problems.py",
>>> line 180, in solve
>>>    def solve(self, *args): return _problems.SolverNonlinear_solve(self,
>>> *args)
>>> RuntimeError: std::exception
>>> application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, -1) - process 0
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/nemesis:
>>> mpirun: exit 255
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/pylith:
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/bin/nemesis:
>>> exit 1
>>> 
>>> Any idea?
>>> Romain
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Romain Jolivet
>>> Postdoctoral Scholar
>>> Geological and Planetary Sciences
>>> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
>>> rjolivet at caltech.edu
>>> +1 (626) 560 6356
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>>>> Today's Topics:
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>>>>  1. Re: Rate and State and Initial Traction (Brad Aagaard)
>>>>  2. Fwd:  Rate and State and Initial Traction (Matthew Knepley)
>>>> 
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>>>> Message: 1
>>>> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:36:08 -0700
>>>> From: Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov>
>>>> Subject: Re: [CIG-SHORT] Rate and State and Initial Traction
>>>> To: cig-short at geodynamics.org
>>>> Message-ID: <503E6F28.6050001 at usgs.gov>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>> 
>>>> Romain,
>>>> 
>>>> It looks like you are using Schur complement preconditioner settings.
>>>> The jump in the KSP residual at iteration 10 is odd and suggests
>>>> something is not quite right in the linear solve (probably related to
>>>> the preconditioner). Try using the AMG preconditioner. It may not be
>>>> quite as fast but it is more robust. Matt can probably help you tune the
>>>> Schur complement solver conditions some more if necessary.
>>>> 
>>>> Your SNES tolerances are quite large. I suggest using tolerances similar
>>>> to those in examples/3d/hex8/step14.cfg.
>>>> 
>>>> SOLVER TOLERANCES
>>>> 
>>>> ksp_rtol = 1.0e-16
>>>> ksp_atol = 1.0e-12
>>>> 
>>>> snes_rtol = 1.0e-14
>>>> snes_atol = 1.0e-10
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> AMG PRECONDITIONER SETTINGS
>>>> 
>>>> [pylithapp.timedependent.formulation]
>>>> split_fields = True
>>>> matrix_type = aij
>>>> 
>>>> [pylithapp.petsc]
>>>> ksp_gmres_restart = 100
>>>> fs_pc_type = fieldsplit
>>>> fs_pc_fieldsplit_real_diagonal = true
>>>> fs_pc_fieldsplit_type = multiplicative
>>>> fs_fieldsplit_0_pc_type = ml
>>>> fs_fieldsplit_1_pc_type = jacobi
>>>> fs_fieldsplit_0_ksp_type = preonly
>>>> fs_fieldsplit_1_ksp_type = preonly
>>>> 
>>>> Brad
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 08/29/2012 11:42 AM, Romain Jolivet wrote:
>>>>> Hello Brad, Matt, Charles and the pylith team,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Following your advice from the other day, I am experimenting  how to
>>> create earthquakes on a frictional interface by applying a traction change
>>> history. It works fine with the SlipWeakening law in 2D. I'm trying to move
>>> on to the RateStateAgeing behavior and I have problems applying the initial
>>> traction conditions:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I use a SimpleDB to apply the frictional properties on the fault: one
>>> domain is rate-strengthening, the other is rate-weakening with a linear
>>> transition between the two domains. If I do not try to turn on any
>>> traction_perturbation option, the code runs great, and I have a slow slip
>>> all the along the fault at any time.
>>>>> 
>>>>> As I want the rate-weakening domain to be stuck sometimes, I want to
>>> turn on traction_perturbation.db_initial. I use a SimpleDB to put a
>>> negative traction all along the fault, and a shear traction compatible with
>>> the friction coefficients I impose. However, when I run this, I have the
>>> following error message from PETSc (I attach the log):
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/Implicit.py:215:step
>>>>> -- implicit(info)
>>>>> -- Solving equations.
>>>>>  0 SNES Function norm 2.679589636063e+01
>>>>>    0 KSP Residual norm 9.637565795900e-01
>>>>>    1 KSP Residual norm 3.564937135471e-08
>>>>>    2 KSP Residual norm 4.313963401911e-16
>>>>>    3 KSP Residual norm 3.050427683646e-16
>>>>>    4 KSP Residual norm 2.490663081181e-16
>>>>>    5 KSP Residual norm 2.156976950523e-16
>>>>>    6 KSP Residual norm 1.929258577738e-16
>>>>>    7 KSP Residual norm 1.761163907914e-16
>>>>>    8 KSP Residual norm 1.630520838230e-16
>>>>>    9 KSP Residual norm 1.525212509706e-16
>>>>>   10 KSP Residual norm 1.833325155789e-11
>>>>>   11 KSP Residual norm 7.039784754868e-23
>>>>>  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ATOL iterations 11
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception!
>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Infinite or not-a-number generated in norm!
>>>>> 
>>>>> If anyone has an idea about that error message....
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think it has to do with some slip vector. If I set
>>> friction.min_slip_rate=1e-1, this problem does not happen (the nonlinear
>>> solver does not converge, but at least, no crash). If I set the normal
>>> traction to be positive, it does not crash as well (and it does not
>>> converge as well). I join to this message the cfg file I am using for that
>>> experiment.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>> Romain
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Romain Jolivet
>>>>> Postdoctoral Scholar
>>>>> Geological and Planetary Sciences
>>>>> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
>>>>> rjolivet at caltech.edu
>>>>> +1 (626) 560 6356
>>>>> 
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>>>> Message: 2
>>>> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:09:25 -0500
>>>> From: Matthew Knepley <knepley at mcs.anl.gov>
>>>> Subject: [CIG-SHORT] Fwd:  Rate and State and Initial Traction
>>>> To: cig-short at geodynamics.org
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>>>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Romain,
>>>>> 
>>>>> It looks like you are using Schur complement preconditioner settings.
>>>>> The jump in the KSP residual at iteration 10 is odd and suggests
>>>>> something is not quite right in the linear solve (probably related to
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Brad is right that the tolerances here will produce some garbage. Going
>>>> below
>>>> machine epsilon (about 10^-16) means you get randomness and ultimately
>>>> underflow which I think you got in a norm calculation since things get
>>>> squared.
>>>> The solver should have converged on iterate 2, and will with the
>>> tolerances
>>>> that
>>>> Brad suggested.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>>    Matt
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> the preconditioner). Try using the AMG preconditioner. It may not be
>>>>> quite as fast but it is more robust. Matt can probably help you tune
>>> the
>>>>> Schur complement solver conditions some more if necessary.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Your SNES tolerances are quite large. I suggest using tolerances
>>> similar
>>>>> to those in examples/3d/hex8/step14.cfg.
>>>>> 
>>>>> SOLVER TOLERANCES
>>>>> 
>>>>> ksp_rtol = 1.0e-16
>>>>> ksp_atol = 1.0e-12
>>>>> 
>>>>> snes_rtol = 1.0e-14
>>>>> snes_atol = 1.0e-10
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> AMG PRECONDITIONER SETTINGS
>>>>> 
>>>>> [pylithapp.timedependent.formulation]
>>>>> split_fields = True
>>>>> matrix_type = aij
>>>>> 
>>>>> [pylithapp.petsc]
>>>>> ksp_gmres_restart = 100
>>>>> fs_pc_type = fieldsplit
>>>>> fs_pc_fieldsplit_real_diagonal = true
>>>>> fs_pc_fieldsplit_type = multiplicative
>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_0_pc_type = ml
>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_1_pc_type = jacobi
>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_0_ksp_type = preonly
>>>>> fs_fieldsplit_1_ksp_type = preonly
>>>>> 
>>>>> Brad
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 08/29/2012 11:42 AM, Romain Jolivet wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Brad, Matt, Charles and the pylith team,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Following your advice from the other day, I am experimenting  how to
>>>>> create earthquakes on a frictional interface by applying a traction
>>> change
>>>>> history. It works fine with the SlipWeakening law in 2D. I'm trying to
>>> move
>>>>> on to the RateStateAgeing behavior and I have problems applying the
>>> initial
>>>>> traction conditions:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I use a SimpleDB to apply the frictional properties on the fault: one
>>>>> domain is rate-strengthening, the other is rate-weakening with a linear
>>>>> transition between the two domains. If I do not try to turn on any
>>>>> traction_perturbation option, the code runs great, and I have a slow
>>> slip
>>>>> all the along the fault at any time.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As I want the rate-weakening domain to be stuck sometimes, I want to
>>>>> turn on traction_perturbation.db_initial. I use a SimpleDB to put a
>>>>> negative traction all along the fault, and a shear traction compatible
>>> with
>>>>> the friction coefficients I impose. However, when I run this, I have
>>> the
>>>>> following error message from PETSc (I attach the log):
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> /Users/jolivetinsar/MYBIN/pylith/pylith-1.7.1-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/Implicit.py:215:step
>>>>>> -- implicit(info)
>>>>>> -- Solving equations.
>>>>>>  0 SNES Function norm 2.679589636063e+01
>>>>>>    0 KSP Residual norm 9.637565795900e-01
>>>>>>    1 KSP Residual norm 3.564937135471e-08
>>>>>>    2 KSP Residual norm 4.313963401911e-16
>>>>>>    3 KSP Residual norm 3.050427683646e-16
>>>>>>    4 KSP Residual norm 2.490663081181e-16
>>>>>>    5 KSP Residual norm 2.156976950523e-16
>>>>>>    6 KSP Residual norm 1.929258577738e-16
>>>>>>    7 KSP Residual norm 1.761163907914e-16
>>>>>>    8 KSP Residual norm 1.630520838230e-16
>>>>>>    9 KSP Residual norm 1.525212509706e-16
>>>>>>   10 KSP Residual norm 1.833325155789e-11
>>>>>>   11 KSP Residual norm 7.039784754868e-23
>>>>>>  Linear solve converged due to CONVERGED_ATOL iterations 11
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message
>>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Floating point exception!
>>>>>> [0]PETSC ERROR: Infinite or not-a-number generated in norm!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If anyone has an idea about that error message....
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think it has to do with some slip vector. If I set
>>>>> friction.min_slip_rate=1e-1, this problem does not happen (the
>>> nonlinear
>>>>> solver does not converge, but at least, no crash). If I set the normal
>>>>> traction to be positive, it does not crash as well (and it does not
>>>>> converge as well). I join to this message the cfg file I am using for
>>> that
>>>>> experiment.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> Romain
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Romain Jolivet
>>>>>> Postdoctoral Scholar
>>>>>> Geological and Planetary Sciences
>>>>>> California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
>>>>>> rjolivet at caltech.edu
>>>>>> +1 (626) 560 6356
>>>>>> 
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