topic Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade in Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

acar — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:37:56 GMT

Hi,

I am writing a finite element application using IVF and the PARDISO linear solver that comes with the MKL libraries. My application was working fine until 3rd January 2011 when I upgraded tow_mkl_10.3.1.127_ia32. Following the upgrade the solver failed at the numerical factorisation phase (PHASE=22). Instructions in the userguide tell you that to set the default parameters one should pass IPARM(1)=0 at the analysis phase (PHASE=11) however on inspection of IPARM following the analysis phase I found that some elements of IPARM had not been set to their default values, for example IPARM(28) which only admits values of 0 or 1 with 0 being the default remained unchanged at -1 which was the value present in the uninitialised array. In seeking a solution to this issue I replaced the initialisation IPARM(1)=0 with IPARM=0, i.e. setting all elements of IPARM to zero, prior to performing the analysis phase. This appeared to solve the problem.

Inspection of the results produced by PARDISO seems to indicate that they are fine with this work-around but I am now left with some uncertainty as to whether or not IPARM is being correctly initialised to appropriate default values (it could be the case that by setting IPARM=0 allowed PARDISO to run for my particular problem configuration but some of the elements of IPARM are not now at sensible default values).

Thanks,

ACAR

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

Gennady_F_Intel — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:26:50 GMT

Do you mean that you had not seen this behavior with the previous version?say, for example, with the 10.2?

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

acar — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:47:03 GMT

Yes that is what I observed - the code was working correctly until I installed the upgrade for mkl and for IVF. That is not to say, of course, that the vector IPARM did not enter phase 1 with different values as I did not initialise it explicitly since according to the documentation this is not required. Unfortunately now that I have installed the upgrades I cannot confirm the outcome of the initialisation for the older version of the libraries.

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

acar — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:41:03 GMT

Almost a week since I asked a fairly important question and still no response (admittedly running over a holiday period)! Is anyone taking note of the question?

Just rebooted my machine and tried to find the mkl forum via the intel.com website - it took me numerous attempts via the intel search engine to find anything to do with forum. This is a general problem that I have with the intel website - it is not easy to return to your previous settings. Now I have found my way in I shall record it for future use but really should there be an issue with shoving "forum" into the intel searh engine?

Best wishes,

Angus.

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

Gennady_F_Intel — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:59:55 GMT

it looks likeabug.Wewill checkandbe back soon.

--Gennady

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

acar — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:24:55 GMT

Many thanks for the update - Angus.

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

acar — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:00:35 GMT

Do we know whether this is a bug yet?

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

Gennady_F_Intel — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:11:36 GMT

Hi Angus.

This is the bug. The fix will available the next update. I will let you know as soon as this update will available.

--Gennady

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

acar — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:46:01 GMT

Hi Gennady,

Thanks for the update.

For my use of PARDISO it seems that what I've already done is okay. For users with other problem types they may need to ensure that the relevant parameters are correctly set by setting them manually.

I look forward to hearing of the next update.

Cheers,

Angus.

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

Gennady_F_Intel — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:11:22 GMT

Hi Angus,

The problem has been fixed in the latest version of the Intel MKL 10.3. Update 2 released yesterday. This Update is available now on the Intel Registration Center.

Could You please check if the problem is still there and let us know the status.

--Gennady

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

acar — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:34:17 GMT

Hi Gennady,

Great. Happy to test it out but could you please supply a link as I haven't the time to wander blindly around the Intel Website.

Thanks,

Angus.

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

Gennady_F_Intel — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:33:33 GMT

Hi Angus,

Please see the officialannouncementhereand this is the link to the

Intel Software Development Products Registration Center

--Gennady

Pardiso - possible error in latest upgrade

acar — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:28:31 GMT

Hi Gennady, I've installed the update but can't do the required check at the moment. Will let you know the outcome when I do.