From: Martin Kronbichler Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 13:36:21 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Write results section. X-Git-Tag: v9.1.0-rc1~1206^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=04ece0898e4b041d1415c0bbf84484ebebe4215b;p=dealii.git Write results section. --- diff --git a/examples/step-59/doc/results.dox b/examples/step-59/doc/results.dox index e7cf5f779c..031ac9f383 100644 --- a/examples/step-59/doc/results.dox +++ b/examples/step-59/doc/results.dox @@ -3,97 +3,339 @@

Program output

Like in step-37, we evaluate the multigrid solver in terms of run time. In -two space dimensions with elements of degree 3, a possible output could look +two space dimensions with elements of degree 8, a possible output could look as follows: @code -Running with 12 MPI processes +Running with 12 MPI processes, element FE_DGQHermite<2>(8) Cycle 0 -Number of degrees of freedom: 1024 -Total setup time 0.0246709 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0093796 s -Verification via L2 error: 0.0155167 +Number of degrees of freedom: 5184 +Total setup time 0.0282445 s +Time solve (14 iterations) 0.0110712 s +Verification via L2 error: 1.66232e-07 Cycle 1 -Number of degrees of freedom: 4096 -Total setup time 0.0159565 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0100399 s -Verification via L2 error: 0.00130939 +Number of degrees of freedom: 20736 +Total setup time 0.0126282 s +Time solve (14 iterations) 0.0157021 s +Verification via L2 error: 2.91505e-10 Cycle 2 -Number of degrees of freedom: 16384 -Total setup time 0.0210655 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0117574 s -Verification via L2 error: 9.22924e-05 +Number of degrees of freedom: 82944 +Total setup time 0.0227573 s +Time solve (14 iterations) 0.026568 s +Verification via L2 error: 6.64514e-13 Cycle 3 -Number of degrees of freedom: 65536 -Total setup time 0.0570049 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0228628 s -Verification via L2 error: 5.99019e-06 +Number of degrees of freedom: 331776 +Total setup time 0.0604685 s +Time solve (14 iterations) 0.0628356 s +Verification via L2 error: 5.57513e-13 Cycle 4 -Number of degrees of freedom: 262144 -Total setup time 0.144457 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0545919 s -Verification via L2 error: 3.78568e-07 +Number of degrees of freedom: 1327104 +Total setup time 0.154359 s +Time solve (13 iterations) 0.219555 s +Verification via L2 error: 3.08139e-12 Cycle 5 -Number of degrees of freedom: 1048576 -Total setup time 0.487433 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.230212 s -Verification via L2 error: 2.37412e-08 +Number of degrees of freedom: 5308416 +Total setup time 0.467764 s +Time solve (13 iterations) 1.1821 s +Verification via L2 error: 3.90334e-12 Cycle 6 -Number of degrees of freedom: 4194304 -Total setup time 1.87463 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 1.16517 s -Verification via L2 error: 1.48553e-09 +Number of degrees of freedom: 21233664 +Total setup time 1.73263 s +Time solve (13 iterations) 5.21054 s +Verification via L2 error: 4.94543e-12 @endcode Like in step-37, the number of CG iterations remains constant with increasing -problem size. +problem size. The iteration counts are a bit higher, which is because we use a +lower degree of the Chebyshev polynomial (2 vs 5 in step-37) and because the +interior penalty discretization has a somewhat larger spread in +eigenvalues. Nonetheless, 13 iterations to reduce the residual by 12 orders of +magnitude, or almost a factor of 9 per iteration, indicates an overall very +efficient method. In particular, we can solve a system with 21 million degrees +of freedom in 5 seconds when using 12 cores, which is a very good +efficiency. Of course, in 2D we are well inside the regime of roundoff for a +polynomial degree of 8 – as a matter of fact, around 83k DoFs or 0.025s +would have been enough to fully converge this (simple) analytic solution +here. -Not much changes if we run the program in three spatial dimensions. Since we -use uniform mesh refinement, we get eight times as many elements and -approximately eight times as many degrees of freedom with each cycle: +Not much changes if we run the program in three spatial dimensions, except for +the fact that we now use do something more useful with the higher polynomial +degree and increasing mesh sizes, as the roundoff errors are only obtained at +the finest mesh. Still, it is remarkable that we can solve a 3D Laplace +problem with a wave of three periods to roundoff accuracy on a twelve-core +machine pretty easily - using about 3.5 GB of memory in total for the second +to largest case with 24m DoFs, taking not more than eight seconds. The largest +case uses 30GB of memory with 191m DoFs. @code -Running with 12 MPI processes +Running with 12 MPI processes, element FE_DGQHermite<3>(8) Cycle 0 -Number of degrees of freedom: 512 -Total setup time 0.0297214 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0137131 s -Verification via L2 error: 1.69792 +Number of degrees of freedom: 5832 +Total setup time 0.0210681 s +Time solve (15 iterations) 0.0956945 s +Verification via L2 error: 0.0297194 Cycle 1 -Number of degrees of freedom: 4096 -Total setup time 0.0322271 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0120323 s -Verification via L2 error: 0.346758 +Number of degrees of freedom: 46656 +Total setup time 0.0452428 s +Time solve (15 iterations) 0.113827 s +Verification via L2 error: 9.55733e-05 Cycle 2 -Number of degrees of freedom: 32768 -Total setup time 0.0566789 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0226668 s -Verification via L2 error: 0.0231837 +Number of degrees of freedom: 373248 +Total setup time 0.190423 s +Time solve (15 iterations) 0.218309 s +Verification via L2 error: 2.6868e-07 Cycle 3 -Number of degrees of freedom: 262144 -Total setup time 0.135041 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.0597281 s -Verification via L2 error: 0.00198009 +Number of degrees of freedom: 2985984 +Total setup time 0.627914 s +Time solve (15 iterations) 1.0595 s +Verification via L2 error: 4.6918e-10 Cycle 4 -Number of degrees of freedom: 2097152 -Total setup time 0.762947 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 0.502595 s -Verification via L2 error: 0.000140762 +Number of degrees of freedom: 23887872 +Total setup time 2.85215 s +Time solve (15 iterations) 8.30576 s +Verification via L2 error: 9.38583e-13 Cycle 5 -Number of degrees of freedom: 16777216 -Total setup time 5.63233 s -Time solve (12 iterations) 4.77959 s -Verification via L2 error: 9.16255e-06 +Number of degrees of freedom: 191102976 +Total setup time 16.1324 s +Time solve (15 iterations) 65.57 s +Verification via L2 error: 3.17875e-13 @endcode + +

Comparison of efficiency at different polynomial degrees

+ +In the introduction and in-code comments, it was mentioned several times that +high orders are treated very efficiently with the FEEvaluation and +FEFaceEvaluation evaluators. Now, we want to substantiate these claims by +looking at the throughput of the 3D multigrid solver for various polynomial +degrees. We collect the times as follows: We first run a solver at problem +size close to ten million, indicated in the first four table rows, and record +the timings. Then, we normalize the throughput by recording the number of +million degrees of freedom solved per second (MDoFs/s) to be able to compare +the efficiency of the different degrees, which is computed by dividing the +number of degrees of freedom by the solver time. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
degree123456789101112
Number of DoFs2097152707788816777216327680007077888112394241677721623887872327680004361420870778888998912
Number of iterations131212121313151517191818
Solver time [s]0.7132.1504.6388.8032.0413.2955.7238.30612.7519.253.5304.814
MDoFs/s2.943.293.623.723.473.412.932.882.572.272.011.87
+ +We clearly see how the efficiency per DoF initially improves until it reaches +a maximum for the polynomial degree $k=4$. This effect is surprising, not only +because higher polynomial degrees often yield a vastly better solution, but +especially also when having matrix-based schemes in mind where the denser +coupling at higher degree leads to a monotonously decreasing throughput (and a +drastic one in 3D, with $k=4$ being more than ten times slower than +$k=1$!). For higher degres, the throughput decreases a bit, which is both due +to an increase in the number of iterations (going from 12 at $k=2,3,4$ to 19 +at $k=10$) and due to the $\mathcal O(k)$ complexity of operator +evaluation. Nonetheless, efficiency as the time to solution would be still +better at higher degrees because they have better convergence rates (at least +for problems as simple as this one). For $k=12$, we reach roundoff accuracy +already at 1 million Dofs (solver time less than a second), whereas for $k=8$ +we need 24 million DoFs and 8 seconds. For $k=5$, the error is around +$10^{-9}$ at 57m DoFs and thus still far away from roundoff, despite taking 16 +seconds. + +Note that the above numbers are a bit pessimistic because they +include the time it takes the Chebyshev smoother to compute an eigenvalue +estimate, which is around 10 percent of the solver time. + +

Evaluation of efficiency of ingredients

+ +Finally, we take a look at some of the special ingredients presented in this +tutorial program, namely the FE_DGQHermite basis in particular and the +specification of MatrixFree::DataAccessOnFaces. In the following table, the +third row shows the optimized solver above, the fourth row shows the timings +with only the MatrixFree::DataAccessOnFaces set to `unspecified` rather than +the optimal `gradients`, and the last one with replacing FE_DGQHermite by the +basic FE_DGQ elements where both the MPI exchange are more expensive and the +operations done by FEFaceEvaluation::gather_evaluate() and +FEFaceEvaluation::integrate_scatter(). + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
degree123456789101112
Number of DoFs2097152707788816777216327680007077888112394241677721623887872327680004361420870778888998912
Solver time optimized as in tutorial [s]0.7132.1504.6388.8032.0413.2955.7238.30612.7519.253.5304.814
Solver time MatrixFree::DataAccessOnFaces::unspecified [s]0.7112.1514.6758.9682.2433.6556.2779.08213.5020.053.8175.178
Solver time FE_DGQ [s]0.7122.0415.0669.3352.3793.8026.5649.71414.5422.764.1485.857
+ +The data in the table shows that not using MatrixFree::DataAccessOnFaces +increases timings by around 10% for higher polynomial degrees. For lower +degrees, the difference is obviously less pronounced because the +volume-to-surface ratio is more beneficial and less data needs to be +exchanged. The difference is larger when looking at the matrix-vector product +only, rather than the full multigrid solver shown here, with around 20% worse +timings just because of the MPI communication. + +For $k=1$ and $k=2$, the Hermite-like basis functions do obviously not really +pay off (indeed, for $k=1$ the polynomials are exactly the same as for FE_DGQ) +and the results are similar as with the FE_DGQ basis. However, for degrees +starting at three, we see an increasing advantage for FE_DGQHermite, showing +the effectiveness of these basis functions. + +

Possibilities for extension

+ +As mentioned in the introduction, the fast diagonalization method is tied to a +Cartesian mesh with constant coefficients. If we wanted to solve +variable-coefficient problems, we would need to invest a bit more time in the +design of the smoother parameters by selecting better values. + +Another way of extending the program would be to include support for adaptive +meshes, for which an interface operation at edges of different refinement +level becomes necessary, as discussed in step-39. \ No newline at end of file