PARDISO: Suspected bug in partial / Schur-complement solve

rbunger — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:24:30 GMT

Hi,

I have a complex symmetric system (mtype = 6). I want to compute a partial solution, specifically just a small upper part of the solution vector. I have tested two different matrices:

For the first one (ID = 746704) both the partial solve mode (iparm[30] =3) and the sparse Schur-complement mode (iparm[35] = -2) deliver the same correct result.
The second matrix is special: It contains two individual sub-matrices so that the corresponding systems could be solved individually, like a block-diagonal matrix (the matrix is a FEM matrix where two domains are not connected (they are connected only via a hybridization with an integral equation)). The computed reduced solutions are wrong.

Each matrix is about 25 MB in size (compressed), so I can't upload them.

Below, I just print the first six coefficients of the solution vector. "partial_solve = 0": Schur-complement mode; "partial_solve = 1": Partial solve mode.

Thanks & regards,

Rainer

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ID = 746704
partial_solve = 0
N_schur = 12341

Reference solution:
x(0) = (0,26.0314)
x(1) = (0,-25.8455)
x(2) = (0,41.7267)
x(3) = (0,-67.5421)
x(4) = (0,16.0706)
x(5) = (0,-16.0299)

Reduced solution:
x(0) = (0,26.0314)
x(1) = (0,-25.8455)
x(2) = (0,41.7267)
x(3) = (0,-67.5421)
x(4) = (0,16.0706)
x(5) = (0,-16.0299)

Full solution:
x(0) = (0,26.0314)
x(1) = (0,-25.8455)
x(2) = (0,41.7267)
x(3) = (0,-67.5421)
x(4) = (0,16.0706)
x(5) = (0,-16.0299)

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ID = 746704
partial_solve = 1

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ID = 202443
partial_solve = 0
N_schur = 6508

Reference solution:
x(0) = (0,-2.94291)
x(1) = (0,4.24624)
x(2) = (0,-7.5356)
x(3) = (0,8.64307)
x(4) = (0,-2.44929)
x(5) = (0,-3.66346)

Reduced solution:
x(0) = (0,0.124542)
x(1) = (0,0.13367)
x(2) = (0,0.133519)
x(3) = (0,0.151462)
x(4) = (0,0.152197)
x(5) = (0,0.148365)

Full solution:
x(0) = (0,0.365116)
x(1) = (0,0.589676)
x(2) = (0,-1.5622)
x(3) = (0,2.30311)
x(4) = (0,-0.417001)
x(5) = (0,0.473597)

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ID = 202443
partial_solve = 1

Re: PARDISO: Suspected bug in partial / Schur-complement solve

rbunger — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:26:10 GMT

I wanted to attach my test code but I got the following error: "The attachment's pardiso_schur.cpp content type (text/x-c++src) does not match its file extension and has been removed."

Re: PARDISO: Suspected bug in partial / Schur-complement solve

rbunger — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:45:13 GMT

oneAPI 2026.0.

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