Re: error level of 68687, particles outside allowed range

From: Brad Krane <brad.krane_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 02:11:09 -0400

Sorry I forgot. My compiling options are:

OPT += -DUNEQUALSOFTENINGS
OPT += -DPEANOHILBERT
OPT += -DWALLCLOCK
OPT += -DPMGRID=128
OPT += -DDOUBLEPRECISION
OPT += -DDOUBLEPRECISION_FFTW
OPT += -DSYNCHRONIZATION

And I am running the galaxy sample.

On 5/8/06, Brad Krane <brad.krane_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been coming up to the same problem with Gadget2 now for a few
> days now with out any real success. It seems that if I run a
> non-periodic simulation long enough that one or more of the particles
> leaves the PM which is usually fine at first but eventually Gadget is
> unable to recover and the program halts with a 68687 error. I know
> that one way to fix this problem is to increase the PMGRID size on
> compile, but this seems to lead to two problems:
>
> 1. An exponential increase in memory use.
> 2. The particle will just leave the now larger mesh later in the
> simulation anyway.
>
> Is there anyway that I might be able to just kill the offending
> particle completely from the simulation and thereby prevent the crash?
> Would this approach lead to problems? Is there a better way that I am
> not thinking about? Or should I just get a better computer? ;)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Here below is a sample of the output if that helps clarify my situation.
>
> Begin Step 2, Time: 0.0437879, Redshift: 21.8373, Systemstep:
> 0.00107381, Dloga: 0.0248285
> domain decomposition...
> NTopleaves= 176
> work-load balance=1 memory-balance=1
> domain decomposition done.
> begin Peano-Hilbert order...
> Peano-Hilbert done.
> Start force computation...
> Starting non-periodic PM calculation (grid=0).
> Particle Id=142373 on task=0 with coordinates
> (-68861.4|-1927.9|-1800.34) lies outside PM mesh.
> Stopping
> In total 1 particles were outside allowed range.
>
> Allowed region for isolated PM mesh (coarse):
> (-68861.4|-68906.6|-68905.6) -> (68906.8|68861.6|68862.6)
> ext=137768 totmeshsize=286880 meshsize=1120.63
>
> Starting non-periodic PM calculation (grid=0).
> done PM.
> Tree construction.
> Tree construction done.
> Begin tree force.
> tree is done.
> force computation done.
> type=1 dmean=510.503 asmth=1400.78 minmass=1.10779 a=0.0437879
> sqrt(<p^2>)=6.81455 dlogmax=0.17174
> type=2 dmean=496.112 asmth=1400.78 minmass=1.01672 a=0.0437879
> sqrt(<p^2>)=4.92943 dlogmax=0.230724
> type=3 dmean=185.921 asmth=1400.78 minmass=0.0535116 a=0.0437879
> sqrt(<p^2>)=5.61213 dlogmax=0.0759471
> displacement time constraint: 0.03 (0.03)
>
> Begin Step 3, Time: 0.0448887, Redshift: 21.2773, Systemstep:
> 0.0011008, Dloga: 0.0248285
> domain decomposition...
> NTopleaves= 176
> work-load balance=1 memory-balance=1
> domain decomposition done.
> begin Peano-Hilbert order...
> Peano-Hilbert done.
> Start force computation...
> Starting non-periodic PM calculation (grid=0).
> Particle Id=142373 on task=0 with coordinates
> (-68871.7|-1927.62|-1803.53) lies outside PM mesh.
> Stopping
> In total 1 particles were outside allowed range.
>
> Allowed region for isolated PM mesh (coarse):
> (-68871.7|-68914.7|-68906.5) -> (68899.7|68856.7|68864.9)
> ext=137771 totmeshsize=286887 meshsize=1120.65
>
> Starting non-periodic PM calculation (grid=0).
> Particle Id=142312 on task=0 with coordinates
> (68899.7|-1661.64|1693.9) lies out side PM mesh.
> Stopping
> In total 1 particles were outside allowed range.
> task 0: endrun called with an error level of 68687
>
> --
> Brad
>


--
Brad
Received on 2006-05-08 08:11:10

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