[Users] differences in results between two versions of ET

Ian Hinder ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de
Fri Jul 27 03:21:43 CDT 2012


Hi Yosef,

I believe the code was reorganised in carpet and this needed the algorithm to change in a way that meant numerical results would change.  I can't check right now, but this should have been mentioned in the announcement of the new version of carpet as well as the ET release notes.

-- 
Ian Hinder
ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de


----- Original message -----
> While trying to understand why the results from a BBH run
> differed when using the 2011_05 and 2011_10 version of ET
> I noticed that the two versions gave different results on every
> other point of the buffer region (in a 2 level run) on the 2nd
> time level.
> 
> I reran the test using McLachlan and I found a similar
> behavior, but for fewer points (here, only 3, rather
> than 8) and only the innermost points.
> 
> 
> diff -w -u ~/ET/Old/Cactus/test/mc/gxx.x.asc ~/ET/Develop/Cactus/test/mc 
> | grep "^[+-]2"
> -2           0 0 0 0 26 8 8   0.1         1.8 0 0 5.86163790879802
> +2           0             0 0 0     26 8 8   0.1         1.8 0 0 5.86163790879801
> -2           0 1 0 0 26 8 8   0.1         1.8 0 0 5.86163790879802
> +2           0             1 0 0     26 8 8   0.1         1.8 0 0 5.86163790879801
> -2           0 1 0 0 59 8 8   0.1         5.1 0 0 2.06954055131151
> +2           0             1 0 0     59 8 8   0.1         5.1 0 0 2.06940807802512
> -2           0 1 0 0 61 8 8   0.1         5.3 0 0 2.01672019300839
> +2           0             1 0 0     61 8 8   0.1         5.3 0 0 2.01674238678588
> -2           0 1 0 0 63 8 8   0.1         5.5 0 0 1.96875965038995
> +2           0             1 0 0     63 8 8   0.1         5.5 0 0 1.96875664800624
> 
> 
> 
> One of the major differences between these two versions of ET is the
> switch from the git to hg version of carpet.
> 
> Here is the full parfile that I used.
> 
> #==============================================================================
> 
> ActiveThorns = "admanalysis admbase admcoupling admmacros coordgauge 
> spacemask StaticConformal   boundary time cartgrid3d ioutil iobasic 
> nanchecker CoordBase aeilocalinterp Slab SphericalSurface LocalReduce 
> MoL Carpet CarpetInterp CarpetIOASCII CarpetLib CarpetReduce CarpetSlab 
> CarpetRegrid2 SphericalSurface CarpetIOHDF5 CarpetIOScalar InitBase 
> SymBase LoopControl GSL ReflectionSymmetry"
> 
> 
> ActiveThorns = "TimerReport"
> 
> TimerReport::out_every       = 512
> TimerReport::out_filename = "TimerReport"
> Carpet::output_timers_every = 512
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # Run parameters
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # Grid
> 
> mol::ode_method                                               = "RK4"
> mol::mol_intermediate_steps                       = 4
> mol::mol_num_scratch_levels                       = 1
> 
> 
> 
> CoordBase::domainsize             = "minmax"
> CoordBase::xmin                         = 0
> CoordBase::ymin                         = 0
> CoordBase::zmin                         = 0
> CoordBase::xmax                         = 10
> CoordBase::ymax                         = 10
> CoordBase::zmax                         = 10
> CoordBase::spacing                   = "numcells"
> CoordBase::ncells_x                 = 50
> CoordBase::ncells_y                 = 50
> CoordBase::ncells_z                 = 50
> CartGrid3D::type                       = "coordbase"
> CartGrid3D::domain                   = "full"
> CartGrid3D::bitant_plane       = "xy"
> CartGrid3D::avoid_originx     = no
> CartGrid3D::avoid_originy     = no
> CartGrid3D::avoid_originz     = no
> 
> CoordBase::boundary_size_x_lower               = 4
> CoordBase::boundary_size_y_lower               = 4
> CoordBase::boundary_size_z_lower               = 4
> CoordBase::boundary_shiftout_x_lower       = 1
> CoordBase::boundary_shiftout_y_lower       = 1
> CoordBase::boundary_shiftout_z_lower       = 1
> 
> CoordBase::boundary_size_x_upper               = 4
> CoordBase::boundary_size_y_upper               = 4
> CoordBase::boundary_size_z_upper               = 4
> 
> ReflectionSymmetry::reflection_x = yes
> ReflectionSymmetry::reflection_y = yes
> ReflectionSymmetry::reflection_z = yes
> ReflectionSymmetry::avoid_origin_x = no
> ReflectionSymmetry::avoid_origin_y = no
> ReflectionSymmetry::avoid_origin_z = no
> 
> 
> 
> driver::ghost_size                                               = 4
> 
> #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> cactus::cctk_itlast                                         = 16
> 
> 
> 
> time::dtfac                                               = .5
> Carpet::domain_from_coordbase             = yes
> Carpet::prolongation_order_space     = 5
> Carpet::prolongation_order_time       = 2
> Carpet::max_refinement_levels           = 2
> Carpet::use_buffer_zones = yes
> Carpet::verbose                     = no
> Carpet::schedule_barriers = no
> Carpet::veryverbose             = no
> 
> CarpetLib::output_bboxes   = no
> CarpetLib::check_bboxes                           = no
> CarpetLib::interleave_communications = yes
> CarpetLib::combine_sends                         = yes
> 
> #Carpet::time_refinement_factors = "[1,1,1,1,2,2,4,8,16,32,64]"
> Carpet::init_3_timelevels = "no"
> Carpet::init_each_timelevel = "no"
> Carpet::init_fill_timelevels = "yes"
> Carpet::enable_all_storage         = no
> Carpet::regrid_during_recovery = no
> 
> ActiveThorns="CarpetRegrid2"
> CarpetRegrid2::regrid_every = 16
> CarpetRegrid2::num_centres = 1
> CarpetRegrid2::num_levels_1 = 2
> CarpetRegrid2::radius_1[ 1] = 5
> 
> 
> # MODEL
> ActiveThorns="IDAnalyticBH"
> ADMBase::initial_data="bl_bh"
> IDAnalyticBH::bl_nbh = 2
> IDAnalyticBH::bl_x0_1 = 1.01001
> IDAnalyticBH::bl_y0_1 = 1.01001
> IDAnalyticBH::bl_x0_2 = -1.01001
> IDAnalyticBH::bl_y0_2 = -1.01001
> initbase::initial_data_setup_method = init_some_levels
> 
> 
> 
> 
> admbase::metric_type                                       = "Physical"
> #staticconformal::conformal_storage           = "factor+derivs+2nd derivs"
> 
> #--- numerics
> 
> 
> ActiveThorns = "ML_BSSN ML_BSSN_Helper TmunuBase GenericFD"
> 
> ADMBase::evolution_method             = "ML_BSSN"
> ADMBase::lapse_evolution_method = "ML_BSSN"
> ADMBase::shift_evolution_method = "ML_BSSN"
> 
> ML_BSSN::timelevels = 3
> 
> ML_BSSN::harmonicN                     = 1           # 1+log
> ML_BSSN::harmonicF                     = 2.0       # 1+log
> ML_BSSN::ShiftGammaCoeff         = 0.75
> ML_BSSN::BetaDriver                   = 1.0
> ML_BSSN::LapseAdvectionCoeff = 1
> ML_BSSN::ShiftAdvectionCoeff = 1
> 
> ML_BSSN::my_boundary_condition = "Minkowski"
> 
> ML_BSSN::ML_log_confac_bound = "none"
> ML_BSSN::ML_metric_bound         = "none"
> ML_BSSN::ML_Gamma_bound           = "none"
> ML_BSSN::ML_trace_curv_bound = "none"
> ML_BSSN::ML_curv_bound             = "none"
> ML_BSSN::ML_lapse_bound           = "none"
> ML_BSSN::ML_dtlapse_bound       = "none"
> ML_BSSN::ML_shift_bound           = "none"
> ML_BSSN::ML_dtshift_bound       = "none"
> 
> admbase::initial_lapse                                   = "one"
> 
> 
> ADMBase::initial_shift     = "zero"
> ADMBase::initial_dtlapse = "zero"
> ADMBase::initial_dtshift = "zero"
> 
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Output
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> IO::out_dir                                                         = $parfile
> IO::out_fileinfo                 = "none"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> CarpetIOASCII::out1D_every                                       = 1
> CarpetIOASCII::out1D_vars                                         = "admbase::alp 
> admbase::metric   admbase::curv admbase::shift "
> CarpetIOASCII::out1D_d=no
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