[Users] changing CarpetRegrid2 parameters for ETK Maxwell + mercurial Carpet?

Erik Schnetter schnetter at cct.lsu.edu
Thu Nov 10 19:18:27 CST 2011


Could you run with Carpet::veryverbose=yes,
CarpetLib::output_bboxes=yes, and make the resulting stdout/stderr
available somehow? It will balloon in size compared to what you have
now.

-erik

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Kelly, Bernard J.
(GSFC-660.0)[UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY]
<bernard.j.kelly at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi all.
> At Erik's suggestion (off-list), I resolved some checkpoint recovery issues
> by moving from "Curie" to the new ETK release. However, my old grid
> specifications seem no longer to work.
> The parameters are for a 2:1 mass-ratio BHB evolution. I've used three
> "centres" -- one each for the punctures, and one centred at the origin.
> Below is what I used to have in CarpetRegrid2, which worked with the last
> "Curie" release of ETK (the full grid is [-2048,2048] in size).
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Parameters of thorn CarpetRegrid2 (implementing CarpetRegrid2)
> CarpetRegrid2::freeze_unaligned_levels = "yes"
> CarpetRegrid2::num_centres             = 3
> CarpetRegrid2::num_levels_1            = 12
> CarpetRegrid2::position_x_1            = -3.3333333333333333333
> CarpetRegrid2::movement_threshold_1    = 0.10
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[5]             = 40
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[6]             = 20
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[7]             = 10
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[8]             = 5
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[9]             = 2.5
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[10]            = 1.25
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[11]            = 0.625
> CarpetRegrid2::num_levels_2            = 13
> CarpetRegrid2::position_x_2            =  6.6666666666666666667
> CarpetRegrid2::movement_threshold_2    = 0.05
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[5]             = 40
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[6]             = 20
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[7]             = 10
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[8]             = 5
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[9]             = 2.5
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[10]            = 1.25
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[11]            = 0.625
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[12]            = 0.3125
> CarpetRegrid2::num_levels_3            = 6
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_3[1]             = 1024
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_3[2]             = 512
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_3[3]             = 256
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_3[4]             = 160
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_3[5]             = 96
> CarpetRegrid2::regrid_every            = 60
> CarpetRegrid2::verbose                 = "yes"
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> This doesn't work now, however. Current ETK complains that some entries in
> radius_1 and radius_2 are unspecified, and it sets them to zero with
> catastrophic results.
> To resolve this, I am now explicitly setting the missing levels:
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[1]             = 1024
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[2]             = 512
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[3]             = 256
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[4]             = 160
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[1]             = 1024
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[2]             = 512
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[3]             = 256
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_2[4]             = 160
> This runs, but complains every time step about mismatched "simulated domain
> volume" and "reduction weight sum":
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> INFO (CarpetReduce): Simulation domain volume: 442368
> INFO (CarpetReduce): Reduction weight sum:     442367.999999072
> WARNING level 1 in thorn CarpetReduce processor 0 host
> r186i2n12.p4.nas.nasa.gov
>   (line 120 of
> /home1/bjkelly1/CODES/Cactus/configs/hahndol/build/CarpetReduce/mask_test.c):
>   -> Simulation domain volume and reduction weight sum differ
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> After a short evolution time (7.25 M, or more than 1700 time steps), the run
> crashes. First there are several messages of the form:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> INFO (CarpetReduce): Simulation domain volume: 442368
> INFO (CarpetReduce): Reduction weight sum:     442367.999991311
> INFO (CarpetRegrid2): Centre 1 is at position
> [-3.29831,-0.331478,7.81462e-15] with 12 levels
> INFO (CarpetRegrid2): Centre 2 is at position [6.58787,0.867484,8.98107e-15]
> with 13 levels
> INFO (CarpetRegrid2): Centre 3 is not active
> INFO (CarpetRegrid2): Regridding
> INFO (CarpetRegrid2): Regridding levels 10 and up
> WARNING level 1 in thorn CarpetLib processor 58 host
> r186i3n7.p4.nas.nasa.gov
>   (line 182 of
> /home1/bjkelly1/CODES/Cactus/configs/hahndol/build/CarpetLib/dh.cc):
> [...]
>   ->
> /home1/bjkelly1/CODES/Cactus/configs/hahndol/build/CarpetLib/dh.cc:948:
>    [ml=0 rl=10 c=59] The following grid structure consistency check failed:
>    Synchronisation and boundary prolongation: All points must have been
> received
>    needrecv.empty()
> [...]
> WARNING level 0 in thorn CarpetLib processor 94 host
> r186i3n12.p4.nas.nasa.gov
> 12676   (line 1973 of
> /home1/bjkelly1/CODES/Cactus/configs/hahndol/build/CarpetLib/dh.cc):
> 12677   -> The grid structure is inconsistent.  It is impossible to
> continue.
> --------------------------------------
> I'm attaching my current parameter file in full. I'm reluctant to post the
> entire STDOUT/STDERR, since it's around a MB in size.
> Any ideas would be appreciated. I would turn to the copious documentation on
> CarpetRegrid2, but as noted before, there is none.
> Thanks, Bernard
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bernard Kelly -- CRESST Research Associate, NASA/GSFC
>
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