<div dir="ltr">Regarding the BNS issues, is it something due to when you recover from checkpoint?<div><br></div><div>In Whisky we had an issue related to that due to Con2Prim running after recovery from checkpoint.</div><div><br></div><div>E.g., you run a simulation from iteration 0 to iteration 24 (made up numbers just to explain myself).</div><div>You try the same simulation, but this time you run from 0 to 12, checkpoint, recover from checkpoint and run from 12 to 24.</div><div>The results between these two simulations at iteration 24 were slightly different</div><div><br></div><div>The issue was in the Newton Raphson being called by Con2Prim and using a different initial guess when recovering from checkpoint. During a run it uses the previous values of the primitive variables as an initial guess, but these are not available when restarting from checkpoint. The solution, as far as I remember, was not to run Con2Prim during recovery from checkpoint (since the primitive variables are anyway recovered from the checkpoint files).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Bruno</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno gio 16 gen 2025 alle ore 19:59 Roland Haas <<a href="mailto:rhaas@illinois.edu">rhaas@illinois.edu</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello all,<br>
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> # Reproducibility issues with BNS<br>
> * Wolfgang Tichy has obtained different results with different MPI ranks on<br>
Sorry, my bad. Correction: Michal Pirog (who is working with Wolfgang)<br>
noticed these.<br>
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Yours,<br>
Roland<br>
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