DecomposePar

veeturi · May 13, 2020, 18:58

Hello Foamers,

I have recently started using openFOAM and I use an HPC cluster to run my simulations. Since I am running the job on parallel cores, I am using the decomposePar file in which I specify the method of distribution (Simple, Hierarchical or scotch). Currently I am using scotch however, I see that the reconstruction of the distributed domain takes a lot of time.

In my specific case, I have a mesh of 5 million elements and I run this on 6 nodes with 40 cores each (a total of 240 cores). The simulation itself (running a pimpleFoam model) takes about 10 hours which is good however, the reconstructPar takes 5 hours! which is 30% of the total time. Am I missing something? Will it make a difference if I use Simple or the hierarchical method? I'm not exactly sure why the reconstruction takes so long.
Experts, please correct any misconception I may have on my part.

Thank you.

HPE · May 14, 2020, 02:58

Hi

- reconstructPar is a serial execution utility.
- please try to use 'mpirun -np X redistributePar -reconstruct -parallel -latestTime', to see if it helps.

veeturi · May 14, 2020, 20:07

Yes. That helped. Actually I'm running a field average as well on the simulation hence, all the results I need are in the last time step.

Thank you!

May 13, 2020, 18:58	DecomposePar	#1
veeturi New Member Sricharan S Veeturi Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 10	Hello Foamers, I have recently started using openFOAM and I use an HPC cluster to run my simulations. Since I am running the job on parallel cores, I am using the decomposePar file in which I specify the method of distribution (Simple, Hierarchical or scotch). Currently I am using scotch however, I see that the reconstruction of the distributed domain takes a lot of time. In my specific case, I have a mesh of 5 million elements and I run this on 6 nodes with 40 cores each (a total of 240 cores). The simulation itself (running a pimpleFoam model) takes about 10 hours which is good however, the reconstructPar takes 5 hours! which is 30% of the total time. Am I missing something? Will it make a difference if I use Simple or the hierarchical method? I'm not exactly sure why the reconstruction takes so long. Experts, please correct any misconception I may have on my part. Thank you. Last edited by veeturi; May 14, 2020 at 20:05.

May 14, 2020, 02:58		#2
HPE Senior Member Herpes Free Engineer Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: The Home Under The Ground with the Lost Boys Posts: 931 Rep Power: 13	Hi - reconstructPar is a serial execution utility. - please try to use 'mpirun -np X redistributePar -reconstruct -parallel -latestTime', to see if it helps. cryabroad likes this. __________________ The OpenFOAM community is the biggest contributor to OpenFOAM: User guide/Wiki-1/Wiki-2/Code guide/Code Wiki/Journal Nilsson/Guerrero/Holzinger/Holzmann/Nagy/Santos/Nozaki/Jasak/Primer Governance Bugs/Features: OpenFOAM (ESI-OpenCFD-Trademark) Bugs/Features: FOAM-Extend (Wikki-FSB) Bugs: OpenFOAM.org How to create a MWE New: Forkable OpenFOAM mirror

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May 14, 2020, 20:07		#3
veeturi New Member Sricharan S Veeturi Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 10	Yes. That helped. Actually I'm running a field average as well on the simulation hence, all the results I need are in the last time step. Thank you!