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* Running Example adjoints_ex3:
*   example-opt  
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Started /Users/petejw/projects/libmesh_git/build/examples/adjoints/adjoints_ex3/.libs/example-opt
Building mesh
Making elements 2nd order
Building system
Initializing systems
 Mesh Information:
  elem_dimensions()={2}
  spatial_dimension()=2
  n_nodes()=99
    n_local_nodes()=99
  n_elem()=16
    n_local_elem()=16
    n_active_elem()=16
  n_subdomains()=1
  n_partitions()=1
  n_processors()=1
  n_threads()=1
  processor_id()=0

 EquationSystems
  n_systems()=1
   System #0, "CoupledSystem"
    Type "Implicit"
    Variables={ "u" "v" } "p" "C" 
    Finite Element Types="LAGRANGE", "JACOBI_20_00" "LAGRANGE", "JACOBI_20_00" "LAGRANGE", "JACOBI_20_00" 
    Infinite Element Mapping="CARTESIAN" "CARTESIAN" "CARTESIAN" 
    Approximation Orders="SECOND", "THIRD" "FIRST", "THIRD" "SECOND", "THIRD" 
    n_dofs()=331
    n_local_dofs()=331
    n_constrained_dofs()=138
    n_local_constrained_dofs()=138
    n_vectors()=1
    n_matrices()=1
    DofMap Sparsity
      Average  On-Processor Bandwidth <= 40.9698
      Average Off-Processor Bandwidth <= 0
      Maximum  On-Processor Bandwidth <= 71
      Maximum Off-Processor Bandwidth <= 0
    DofMap Constraints
      Number of DoF Constraints = 138
      Number of Heterogenous Constraints= 5
      Average DoF Constraint Length= 0

Starting adaptive loop

Adaptive step 0
Solving the forward problem
We have 16 active elements and 193 active dofs.

Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 1.96901
Linear solve starting, tolerance 2.53935e-07
Linear solve finished, step 26, residual 1.82973e-06
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 0.0670908
  Nonlinear step: |du|/|u| = 0.999766, |du| = 81.7355
Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 0.0670908
Linear solve starting, tolerance 7.45258e-06
Linear solve finished, step 18, residual 3.53719e-07
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 1.06915e-06
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual 1.06915e-06
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual reduction 5.4299e-07 < 5e-06
  Nonlinear solver relative step size 0.00197724 > 5e-06
The boundary QoI is 0.083342112283908601

Solving the adjoint problem
Adaptive step 1
Solving the forward problem
We have 22 active elements and 259 active dofs.

Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 0.30764140603472079
Linear solve starting, tolerance 1.6252688688582105e-06
Linear solve finished, step 23, residual 2.5675677371584641e-06
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 2.4742624354879299e-06
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 0, residual 2.4742624354879299e-06
  Nonlinear solver relative residual 8.0426834195676554e-06 > 5.0000000000000004e-06
  Nonlinear solver relative step size 0.026756677559375015 > 5.0000000000000004e-06
The boundary QoI is 0.082285469926828558

Solving the adjoint problem
Adaptive step 2
Solving the forward problem
We have 31 active elements and 366 active dofs.

Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 0.30346378515293759
Linear solve starting, tolerance 1.6476430614216898e-06
Linear solve finished, step 29, residual 1.9948118865767694e-06
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 1.2482465927873654e-05
  Nonlinear step: |du|/|u| = 0.032631884247212889, |du| = 3.2085080229868606
Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 1.2482465927873654e-05
Linear solve starting, tolerance 0.040056187846945188
Linear solve finished, step 5, residual 3.7745192265277882e-07
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 3.5270642290091566e-07
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual 3.5270642290091566e-07
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual reduction 1.1622685808231157e-06 < 5.0000000000000004e-06
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, relative step size 1.0818378614625637e-07 < 5.0000000000000004e-06
The boundary QoI is 0.083397969533066649

Solving the adjoint problem
Adaptive step 3
Solving the forward problem
We have 43 active elements and 489 active dofs.

Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 0.17715444505855465
Linear solve starting, tolerance 2.8223960162824908e-06
Linear solve finished, step 32, residual 3.0115132419954682e-06
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 1.3140031741041044e-05
  Nonlinear step: |du|/|u| = 0.010851284663203398, |du| = 1.1881136323565553
Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 1.3140031741041044e-05
Linear solve starting, tolerance 0.038051658462766133
Linear solve finished, step 19, residual 2.8753290805554482e-07
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 2.9813038188172841e-07
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual 2.9813038188172841e-07
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual reduction 1.6828840043115358e-06 < 5.0000000000000004e-06
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, relative step size 4.3812202048034265e-06 < 5.0000000000000004e-06
The boundary QoI is 0.083320955818497799

Solving the adjoint problem
Adaptive step 4
Solving the forward problem
We have 58 active elements and 665 active dofs.

Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 0.39919146357636331
Linear solve starting, tolerance 1.2525317939429149e-06
Linear solve finished, step 23, residual 2.839106616742409e-06
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 5.6151033018698336e-05
  Nonlinear step: |du|/|u| = 0.026227435390334966, |du| = 3.6016237999137686
Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 5.6151033018698336e-05
Linear solve starting, tolerance 0.0089045556799195423
Linear solve finished, step 24, residual 4.0210669628509374e-07
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 4.5058576148296425e-07
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual 4.5058576148296425e-07
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual reduction 1.128745984310783e-06 < 5.0000000000000004e-06
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, relative step size 1.810249215230675e-06 < 5.0000000000000004e-06
The boundary QoI is 0.083235487523675558

Solving the adjoint problem
Adaptive step 5
Solving the forward problem
We have 76 active elements and 898 active dofs.

Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 0.2694905635811049
Linear solve starting, tolerance 1.8553525338913094e-06
Linear solve finished, step 24, residual 5.6863821486782222e-06
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 6.3943879089033129e-05
  Nonlinear step: |du|/|u| = 0.026516033137707642, |du| = 4.0454321765239287
Assembling the System
Nonlinear Residual: 6.3943879089033129e-05
Linear solve starting, tolerance 0.0078193567097144395
Linear solve finished, step 39, residual 2.8305073809539721e-07
Trying full Newton step
  Current Residual: 3.6756254437316927e-07
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual 3.6756254437316927e-07
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, residual reduction 1.3639161961325929e-06 < 5.0000000000000004e-06
  Nonlinear solver converged, step 1, relative step size 1.5391121888006663e-06 < 5.0000000000000004e-06
The boundary QoI is 0.083295321131089131


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| Time:           Wed Apr 13 10:21:33 2016                                                                          |
| OS:             Darwin                                                                                            |
| HostName:       peterson-laptop.local                                                                             |
| OS Release:     15.0.0                                                                                            |
| OS Version:     Darwin Kernel Version 15.0.0: Sat Sep 19 15:53:46 PDT 2015; root:xnu-3247.10.11~1/RELEASE_X86_64  |
| Machine:        x86_64                                                                                            |
| Username:       petejw                                                                                            |
| Configuration:  ../configure  'INSTALL=/usr/bin/install -C'                                                       |
|  '--with-methods=opt dbg'                                                                                         |
|  '--prefix=/Users/petejw/projects/libmesh_git/installed'                                                          |
|  '--enable-perflog'                                                                                               |
|  '--enable-tracefiles'                                                                                            |
|  '--disable-blocked-storage'                                                                                      |
|  '--enable-default-comm-world'                                                                                    |
|  '--enable-tecio'                                                                                                 |
|  '--enable-unique-ptr'                                                                                            |
|  '--enable-ifem'                                                                                                  |
|  'PETSC_DIR=/opt/moose/petsc/mpich_petsc-3.6.1/clang-opt-superlu'                                                 |
|  'SLEPC_DIR=/opt/petejw/slepc/3.6.1'                                                                              |
|  'CPPFLAGS= '                                                                                                     |
|  'LIBS= '                                                                                                         |
|  'CPPFLAGS=  '                                                                                                    |
|  'LIBS=  '                                                                                                        |
|  '--disable-netcdf-4'                                                                                             |
|  '--disable-testsets'                                                                                             |
|  'CXX=mpicxx'                                                                                                     |
|  'CC=mpicc'                                                                                                       |
|  'F77=mpif77'                                                                                                     |
|  'FC=mpif90'                                                                                                      |
|  'CPPFLAGS=   '                                                                                                   |
|  'LIBS=   '                                                                                                       |
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| libMesh Performance: Alive time=1.60788, Active time=1.52959                                                         |
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| Event                                   nCalls     Total Time  Avg Time    Total Time  Avg Time    % of Active Time  |
|                                                    w/o Sub     w/o Sub     With Sub    With Sub    w/o S    With S   |
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| AdjointResidualErrorEstimator                                                                                        |
|   estimate_error()                      20         0.0012      0.000060    1.2349      0.061745    0.08     80.73    |
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| DofMap                                                                                                               |
|   add_neighbors_to_send_list()          31         0.0006      0.000019    0.0006      0.000019    0.04     0.04     |
|   build_constraint_matrix()             1450       0.0075      0.000005    0.0075      0.000005    0.49     0.49     |
|   build_sparsity()                      6          0.0054      0.000898    0.0056      0.000931    0.35     0.37     |
|   cnstrn_elem_mat_vec()                 470        0.0094      0.000020    0.0094      0.000020    0.61     0.61     |
|   constrain_elem_matrix()               170        0.0031      0.000018    0.0031      0.000018    0.20     0.20     |
|   constrain_elem_vector()               640        0.0013      0.000002    0.0013      0.000002    0.08     0.08     |
|   create_dof_constraints()              31         0.0084      0.000270    0.0141      0.000454    0.55     0.92     |
|   distribute_dofs()                     31         0.0012      0.000037    0.0033      0.000108    0.08     0.22     |
|   dof_indices()                         145940     0.0427      0.000000    0.0427      0.000000    2.79     2.79     |
|   enforce_adjoint_constraints_exactly() 10         0.0005      0.000045    0.0005      0.000045    0.03     0.03     |
|   enforce_constraints_exactly()         28         0.0011      0.000038    0.0011      0.000038    0.07     0.07     |
|   old_dof_indices()                     2760       0.0013      0.000000    0.0013      0.000000    0.09     0.09     |
|   prepare_send_list()                   57         0.0000      0.000000    0.0000      0.000000    0.00     0.00     |
|   reinit()                              31         0.0022      0.000070    0.0022      0.000070    0.14     0.14     |
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| EquationSystems                                                                                                      |
|   build_discontinuous_solution_vector() 25         0.0004      0.000017    0.0006      0.000024    0.03     0.04     |
|   build_solution_vector()               11         0.0017      0.000151    0.0022      0.000199    0.11     0.14     |
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| FE                                                                                                                   |
|   compute_shape_functions()             138632     0.1336      0.000001    0.1336      0.000001    8.73     8.73     |
|   init_shape_functions()                18344      0.1097      0.000006    0.1097      0.000006    7.17     7.17     |
|   inverse_map()                         27315      0.0194      0.000001    0.0194      0.000001    1.27     1.27     |
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| FEMSystem                                                                                                            |
|   assemble_qoi()                        6          0.0028      0.000475    0.0135      0.002246    0.19     0.88     |
|   assemble_qoi_derivative()             5          0.0027      0.000550    0.0124      0.002481    0.18     0.81     |
|   assembly()                            11         0.0293      0.002662    0.0575      0.005227    1.91     3.76     |
|   assembly(get_jacobian)                5          0.0098      0.001956    0.0199      0.003974    0.64     1.30     |
|   assembly(get_residual)                11         0.0072      0.000656    0.0264      0.002399    0.47     1.73     |
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| FEMap                                                                                                                |
|   compute_affine_map()                  138632     0.1076      0.000001    0.1076      0.000001    7.04     7.04     |
|   compute_face_map()                    4052       0.0068      0.000002    0.0191      0.000005    0.45     1.25     |
|   init_face_shape_functions()           626        0.0003      0.000001    0.0003      0.000001    0.02     0.02     |
|   init_reference_to_physical_map()      18344      0.0885      0.000005    0.0885      0.000005    5.78     5.78     |
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| GMVIO                                                                                                                |
|   write_nodal_data()                    11         0.0108      0.000984    0.0108      0.000984    0.71     0.71     |
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| GenericProjector                                                                                                     |
|   copy_dofs                             1200       0.0005      0.000000    0.0023      0.000002    0.03     0.15     |
|   operator()                            10         0.0022      0.000218    0.1083      0.010828    0.14     7.08     |
|   project_edges                         640        0.0000      0.000000    0.0000      0.000000    0.00     0.00     |
|   project_interior                      640        0.0001      0.000000    0.0001      0.000000    0.00     0.00     |
|   project_nodes                         640        0.0022      0.000003    0.1022      0.000160    0.14     6.68     |
|   project_sides                         640        0.0000      0.000000    0.0000      0.000000    0.00     0.00     |
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| ImplicitSystem                                                                                                       |
|   adjoint_solve()                       5          0.0001      0.000022    0.0484      0.009684    0.01     3.17     |
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| Mesh                                                                                                                 |
|   all_first_order()                     25         0.0012      0.000048    0.0012      0.000048    0.08     0.08     |
|   all_second_order()                    1          0.0001      0.000071    0.0001      0.000071    0.00     0.00     |
|   contract()                            5          0.0000      0.000003    0.0000      0.000007    0.00     0.00     |
|   find_neighbors()                      57         0.0042      0.000074    0.0042      0.000074    0.28     0.28     |
|   renumber_nodes_and_elem()             69         0.0001      0.000002    0.0001      0.000002    0.01     0.01     |
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| MeshOutput                                                                                                           |
|   write_equation_systems()              11         0.0001      0.000008    0.0131      0.001191    0.01     0.86     |
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| MeshRefinement                                                                                                       |
|   _coarsen_elements()                   10         0.0000      0.000002    0.0000      0.000002    0.00     0.00     |
|   _refine_elements()                    10         0.0005      0.000048    0.0008      0.000076    0.03     0.05     |
|   add_node()                            720        0.0002      0.000000    0.0002      0.000000    0.01     0.01     |
|   make_coarsening_compatible()          10         0.0002      0.000022    0.0002      0.000022    0.01     0.01     |
|   make_flags_parallel_consistent()      15         0.0001      0.000009    0.0001      0.000009    0.01     0.01     |
|   make_refinement_compatible()          10         0.0000      0.000004    0.0000      0.000004    0.00     0.00     |
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| NewtonSolver                                                                                                         |
|   solve()                               6          0.0014      0.000226    0.1183      0.019722    0.09     7.74     |
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| OldSolutionValue                                                                                                     |
|   Number eval_at_node()                 4960       0.0004      0.000000    0.0004      0.000000    0.03     0.03     |
|   check_old_context(c)                  1200       0.0007      0.000001    0.0013      0.000001    0.04     0.09     |
|   check_old_context(c,p)                2656       0.0016      0.000001    0.0041      0.000002    0.10     0.27     |
|   eval_at_point()                       2656       0.0487      0.000018    0.0989      0.000037    3.18     6.46     |
|   eval_old_dofs()                       1200       0.0003      0.000000    0.0017      0.000001    0.02     0.11     |
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| Parallel                                                                                                             |
|   allgather()                           31         0.0000      0.000000    0.0000      0.000000    0.00     0.00     |
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| Partitioner                                                                                                          |
|   set_node_processor_ids()              51         0.0008      0.000016    0.0008      0.000016    0.05     0.05     |
|   single_partition()                    32         0.0001      0.000004    0.0001      0.000004    0.01     0.01     |
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| PatchRecoveryErrorEstimator                                                                                          |
|   estimate_error()                      120        0.4999      0.004166    0.7391      0.006159    32.68    48.32    |
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| PetscLinearSolver                                                                                                    |
|   solve()                               16         0.0480      0.003003    0.0480      0.003003    3.14     3.14     |
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| System                                                                                                               |
|   project_vector(old,new)               10         0.0017      0.000167    0.1108      0.011079    0.11     7.24     |
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| TopologyMap                                                                                                          |
|   init()                                10         0.0009      0.000085    0.0009      0.000085    0.06     0.06     |
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| WeightedPatchRecoveryErrorEstimator                                                                                  |
|   estimate_error()                      40         0.2967      0.007417    0.4946      0.012364    19.40    32.33    |
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| XdrIO                                                                                                                |
|   read()                                1          0.0002      0.000151    0.0002      0.000151    0.01     0.01     |
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| Totals:                                 515412     1.5296                                          100.00            |
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* Done Running Example adjoints_ex3:
*   example-opt  
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