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428 In this article, a two-stage iterative algorithm is proposed to improve the
429 convergence of Krylov based iterative methods, typically those of GMRES variants. The
430 principle of the proposed approach is to build an external iteration over the Krylov
431 method, and to frequently store its current residual (at each
432 GMRES restart for instance). After a given number of outer iterations, a minimization
433 step is applied on the matrix composed by the saved residuals, in order to
434 compute a better solution and to make new iterations if required. It is proven that
435 the proposal has the same convergence properties than the inner embedded method itself.
436 Experiments using up to 16,394 cores also show that the proposed algorithm
437 runs around 5 or 7 times faster than GMRES.
441 Iterative Krylov methods; sparse linear systems; residual minimization; PETSc; %à voir...
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544 \section{Introduction}
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549 Iterative methods have recently become more attractive than direct ones to solve very large
550 sparse linear systems. They are more efficient in a parallel
551 context, supporting thousands of cores, and they require less memory and arithmetic
552 operations than direct methods. This is why new iterative methods are frequently
553 proposed or adapted by researchers, and the increasing need to solve very large sparse
554 linear systems has triggered the development of such efficient iterative techniques
555 suitable for parallel processing.
557 Most of the successful iterative methods currently available are based on so-called ``Krylov
558 subspaces''. They consist in forming a basis of successive matrix
559 powers multiplied by an initial vector, which can be for instance the residual. These methods use vectors orthogonality of the Krylov subspace basis in order to solve linear
560 systems. The most known iterative Krylov subspace methods are conjugate
561 gradient and GMRES ones (Generalized Minimal RESidual).
564 However, iterative methods suffer from scalability problems on parallel
565 computing platforms with many processors, due to their need of reduction
566 operations, and to collective communications to achive matrix-vector
567 multiplications. The communications on large clusters with thousands of cores
568 and large sizes of messages can significantly affect the performances of these
569 iterative methods. As a consequence, Krylov subspace iteration methods are often used
570 with preconditioners in practice, to increase their convergence and accelerate their
571 performances. However, most of the good preconditioners are not scalable on
574 In this research work, a two-stage algorithm based on two nested iterations
575 called inner-outer iterations is proposed. This algorithm consists in solving the sparse
576 linear system iteratively with a small number of inner iterations, and restarting
577 the outer step with a new solution minimizing some error functions over some
578 previous residuals. This algorithm is iterative and easy to parallelize on large
579 clusters. Furthermore, the minimization technique improves its convergence and
582 The present article is organized as follows. Related works are presented in
583 Section~\ref{sec:02}. Section~\ref{sec:03} details the two-stage algorithm using
584 a least-square residual minimization, while Section~\ref{sec:04} provides
585 convergence results regarding this method. Section~\ref{sec:05} shows some
586 experimental results obtained on large clusters using routines of PETSc
587 toolkit. This research work ends by a conclusion section, in which the proposal
588 is summarized while intended perspectives are provided.
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607 \section{Two-stage iteration with least-square residuals minimization algorithm}
609 A two-stage algorithm is proposed to solve large sparse linear systems of the
610 form $Ax=b$, where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is a sparse and square
611 nonsingular matrix, $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the solution vector, and
612 $b\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the right-hand side. As explained previously,
613 the algorithm is implemented as an
614 inner-outer iteration solver based on iterative Krylov methods. The main
615 key-points of the proposed solver are given in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}.
616 It can be summarized as follows: the
617 inner solver is a Krylov based one. In order to accelerate its convergence, the
618 outer solver periodically applies a least-square minimization on the residuals computed by the inner one. %Tsolver which does not required to be changed.
620 At each outer iteration, the sparse linear system $Ax=b$ is partially
621 solved using only $m$
622 iterations of an iterative method, this latter being initialized with the
623 best known approximation previously obtained.
624 GMRES method~\cite{Saad86}, or any of its variants, can be used for instance as an
625 inner solver. The current approximation of the Krylov method is then stored inside a matrix
626 $S$ composed by the successive solutions that are computed during inner iterations.
628 At each $s$ iterations, the minimization step is applied in order to
629 compute a new solution $x$. For that, the previous residuals are computed with
630 $(b-AS)$. The minimization of the residuals is obtained by
632 \underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2
635 with $R=AS$. Then the new solution $x$ is computed with $x=S\alpha$.
638 In practice, $R$ is a dense rectangular matrix belonging in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$,
639 with $s\ll n$. In order to minimize~\eqref{eq:01}, a least-square method such as
640 CGLS ~\cite{Hestenes52} or LSQR~\cite{Paige82} is used. Remark that these methods are more
641 appropriate than a single direct method in a parallel context.
647 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
648 \Input $A$ (sparse matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
649 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
650 \State Set the initial guess $x^0$
651 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence (error$<\epsilon_{tsirm}$)} \label{algo:conv}
652 \State $x^k=Solve(A,b,x^{k-1},max\_iter_{kryl})$ \label{algo:solve}
653 \State retrieve error
654 \State $S_{k \mod s}=x^k$ \label{algo:store}
655 \If {$k \mod s=0$ {\bf and} error$>\epsilon_{kryl}$}
656 \State $R=AS$ \Comment{compute dense matrix} \label{algo:matrix_mul}
657 \State Solve least-square problem $\underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2$ \label{algo:}
658 \State $x^k=S\alpha$ \Comment{compute new solution}
665 Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} summarizes the principle of our method. The outer
666 iteration is inside the for loop. Line~\ref{algo:solve}, the Krylov method is
667 called for a maximum of $max\_iter_{kryl}$ iterations. In practice, we suggest to set this parameter
668 equals to the restart number of the GMRES-like method. Moreover, a tolerance
669 threshold must be specified for the solver. In practice, this threshold must be
670 much smaller than the convergence threshold of the TSIRM algorithm (\emph{i.e.}
671 $\epsilon_{tsirm}$). Line~\ref{algo:store}, $S_{k~ mod~ s}=x^k$ consists in copying the
672 solution $x_k$ into the column $k~ mod~ s$ of the matrix $S$. After the
673 minimization, the matrix $S$ is reused with the new values of the residuals. To
674 solve the minimization problem, an iterative method is used. Two parameters are
675 required for that: the maximum number of iterations and the threshold to stop the
678 Let us summarize the most important parameters of TSIRM:
680 \item $\epsilon_{tsirm}$: the threshold to stop the TSIRM method;
681 \item $max\_iter_{kryl}$: the maximum number of iterations for the Krylov method;
682 \item $s$: the number of outer iterations before applying the minimization step;
683 \item $max\_iter_{ls}$: the maximum number of iterations for the iterative least-square method;
684 \item $\epsilon_{ls}$: the threshold used to stop the least-square method.
688 The parallelisation of TSIRM relies on the parallelization of all its
689 parts. More precisely, except the least-square step, all the other parts are
690 obvious to achieve out in parallel. In order to develop a parallel version of
691 our code, we have chosen to use PETSc~\cite{petsc-web-page}. For
692 line~\ref{algo:matrix_mul} the matrix-matrix multiplication is implemented and
693 efficient since the matrix $A$ is sparse and since the matrix $S$ contains few
694 colums in practice. As explained previously, at least two methods seem to be
695 interesting to solve the least-square minimization, CGLS and LSQR.
697 In the following we remind the CGLS algorithm. The LSQR method follows more or
698 less the same principle but it takes more place, so we briefly explain the parallelization of CGLS which is similar to LSQR.
702 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
703 \Input $A$ (matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
704 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
709 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence (g$<\epsilon_{ls}$)} \label{algo2:conv}
711 \State $\alpha=g/||q||^2_2$
717 \State $\beta=g/g_{old}$
724 In each iteration of CGLS, there is two matrix-vector multiplications and some
725 classical operations: dot product, norm, multiplication and addition on vectors. All
726 these operations are easy to implement in PETSc or similar environment.
730 %%%*********************************************************
731 %%%*********************************************************
733 \section{Convergence results}
735 Let us recall the following result, see~\cite{Saad86}.
737 Suppose that $A$ is a positive real matrix with symmetric part $M$. Then the residual norm provided at the $m$-th step of GMRES satisfies:
739 ||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_0|| ,
741 where $\alpha = \lambda_min(M)^2$ and $\beta = \lambda_max(A^T A)$, which proves
742 the convergence of GMRES($m$) for all $m$ under that assumption regarding $A$.
747 %%%*********************************************************
748 %%%*********************************************************
749 \section{Experiments using PETSc}
753 In order to see the influence of our algorithm with only one processor, we first
754 show a comparison with the standard version of GMRES and our algorithm. In
755 Table~\ref{tab:01}, we show the matrices we have used and some of them
756 characteristics. For all the matrices, the name, the field, the number of rows
757 and the number of nonzero elements are given.
761 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|}
763 Matrix name & Field &\# Rows & \# Nonzeros \\\hline \hline
764 crashbasis & Optimization & 160,000 & 1,750,416 \\
765 parabolic\_fem & Comput. fluid dynamics & 525,825 & 2,100,225 \\
766 epb3 & Thermal problem & 84,617 & 463,625 \\
767 atmosmodj & Comput. fluid dynamics & 1,270,432 & 8,814,880 \\
768 bfwa398 & Electromagnetics pb & 398 & 3,678 \\
769 torso3 & 2D/3D problem & 259,156 & 4,429,042 \\
773 \caption{Main characteristics of the sparse matrices chosen from the Davis collection}
778 The following parameters have been chosen for our experiments. As by default
779 the restart of GMRES is performed every 30 iterations, we have chosen to stop
780 the GMRES every 30 iterations (\emph{i.e.} $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$). $s$ is set to 8. CGLS is
781 chosen to minimize the least-squares problem with the following parameters:
782 $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$ and $max\_iter_{ls}=20$. The external precision is set to
783 $\epsilon_{tsirm}=1e-10$. Those experiments have been performed on a Intel(R)
784 Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz with the version 3.5.1 of PETSc.
787 In Table~\ref{tab:02}, some experiments comparing the solving of the linear
788 systems obtained with the previous matrices with a GMRES variant and with out 2
789 stage algorithm are given. In the second column, it can be noticed that either
790 gmres or fgmres is used to solve the linear system. According to the matrices,
791 different preconditioner is used. With TSIRM, the same solver and the same
792 preconditionner are used. This Table shows that TSIRM can drastically reduce the
793 number of iterations to reach the convergence when the number of iterations for
794 the normal GMRES is more or less greater than 500. In fact this also depends on
795 tow parameters: the number of iterations to stop GMRES and the number of
796 iterations to perform the minimization.
801 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|r|}
804 \multirow{2}{*}{Matrix name} & Solver / & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} \\
806 & precond & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. \\\hline \hline
808 crashbasis & gmres / none & 15.65 & 518 & 14.12 & 450 \\
809 parabolic\_fem & gmres / ilu & 1009.94 & 7573 & 401.52 & 2970 \\
810 epb3 & fgmres / sor & 8.67 & 600 & 8.21 & 540 \\
811 atmosmodj & fgmres / sor & 104.23 & 451 & 88.97 & 366 \\
812 bfwa398 & gmres / none & 1.42 & 9612 & 0.28 & 1650 \\
813 torso3 & fgmres / sor & 37.70 & 565 & 34.97 & 510 \\
817 \caption{Comparison of (F)GMRES and 2 stage (F)GMRES algorithms in sequential with some matrices, time is expressed in seconds.}
826 In order to perform larger experiments, we have tested some example applications
827 of PETSc. Those applications are available in the ksp part which is suited for
828 scalable linear equations solvers:
830 \item ex15 is an example which solves in parallel an operator using a finite
831 difference scheme. The diagonal is equal to 4 and 4 extra-diagonals
832 representing the neighbors in each directions is equal to -1. This example is
833 used in many physical phenomena, for example, heat and fluid flow, wave
835 \item ex54 is another example based on 2D problem discretized with quadrilateral
836 finite elements. For this example, the user can define the scaling of material
837 coefficient in embedded circle, it is called $\alpha$.
839 For more technical details on these applications, interested reader are invited
840 to read the codes available in the PETSc sources. Those problem have been
841 chosen because they are scalable with many cores. We have tested other problem
842 but they are not scalable with many cores.
844 In the following larger experiments are described on two large scale architectures: Curie and Juqeen... {\bf description...}\\
847 {\bf Description of preconditioners}
851 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
854 nb. cores & precond & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain \\
856 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
857 2,048 & mg & 403.49 & 18,210 & 73.89 & 3,060 & 77.84 & 3,270 & 5.46 \\
858 2,048 & sor & 745.37 & 57,060 & 87.31 & 6,150 & 104.21 & 7,230 & 8.53 \\
859 4,096 & mg & 562.25 & 25,170 & 97.23 & 3,990 & 89.71 & 3,630 & 6.27 \\
860 4,096 & sor & 912.12 & 70,194 & 145.57 & 9,750 & 168.97 & 10,980 & 6.26 \\
861 8,192 & mg & 917.02 & 40,290 & 148.81 & 5,730 & 143.03 & 5,280 & 6.41 \\
862 8,192 & sor & 1,404.53 & 106,530 & 212.55 & 12,990 & 180.97 & 10,470 & 7.76 \\
863 16,384 & mg & 1,430.56 & 63,930 & 237.17 & 8,310 & 244.26 & 7,950 & 6.03 \\
864 16,384 & sor & 2,852.14 & 216,240 & 418.46 & 21,690 & 505.26 & 23,970 & 6.82 \\
868 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM with FGMRES for example ex15 of PETSc with two preconditioner (mg and sor) with 25,000 components per core on Juqueen (threshold 1e-3, restart=30, s=12), time is expressed in seconds.}
873 Table~\ref{tab:03} shows the execution times and the number of iterations of
874 example ex15 of PETSc on the Juqueen architecture. Differents number of cores
875 are studied rangin from 2,048 upto 16,383. Two preconditioners have been
876 tested. For those experiments, the number of components (or unknown of the
877 problems) per processor is fixed to 25,000, also called weak scaling. This
878 number can seem relatively small. In fact, for some applications that need a lot
879 of memory, the number of components per processor requires sometimes to be
884 In this Table, we can notice that TSIRM is always faster than FGMRES. The last
885 column shows the ratio between FGMRES and the best version of TSIRM according to
886 the minimization procedure: CGLS or LSQR. Even if we have computed the worst
887 case between CGLS and LSQR, it is clear that TSIRM is alsways faster than
888 FGMRES. For this example, the multigrid preconditionner is faster than SOR. The
889 gain between TSIRM and FGMRES is more or less similar for the two
890 preconditioners. Looking at the number of iterations to reach the convergence,
891 it is obvious that TSIRM allows the reduction of the number of iterations. It
892 should be noticed that for TSIRM, in those experiments, only the iterations of
893 the Krylov solver are taken into account. Iterations of CGLS or LSQR were not
894 recorded but they are time-consuming. In general each $max\_iter_{kryl}*s$ which
895 corresponds to 30*12, there are $max\_iter_{ls}$ which corresponds to 15.
899 \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex15_juqueen}
900 \caption{Number of iterations per second with ex15 and the same parameters than in Table~\ref{tab:03}}
905 In Figure~\ref{fig:01}, the number of iterations per second corresponding to
906 Table~\ref{tab:01} is displayed. It can be noticed that the number of
907 iterations per second of FMGRES is constant whereas it decrease with TSIRM with
908 both preconditioner. This can be explained by the fact that when the number of
909 core increases the time for the minimization step also increases but, generally,
910 when the number of cores increases, the number of iterations to reach the
911 threshold also increases, and, in that case, TSIRM is more efficient to reduce
912 the number of iterations. So, the overall benefit of using TSIRM is interesting.
921 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
924 nb. cores & threshold & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain \\
926 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
927 2,048 & 8e-5 & 108.88 & 16,560 & 23.06 & 3,630 & 22.79 & 3,630 & 4.77 \\
928 2,048 & 6e-5 & 194.01 & 30,270 & 35.50 & 5,430 & 27.74 & 4,350 & 6.99 \\
929 4,096 & 7e-5 & 160.59 & 22,530 & 35.15 & 5,130 & 29.21 & 4,350 & 5.49 \\
930 4,096 & 6e-5 & 249.27 & 35,520 & 52.13 & 7,950 & 39.24 & 5,790 & 6.35 \\
931 8,192 & 6e-5 & 149.54 & 17,280 & 28.68 & 3,810 & 29.05 & 3,990 & 5.21 \\
932 8,192 & 5e-5 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 \\
933 16,384 & 4e-5 & 718.61 & 86,400 & 98.98 & 10,830 & 131.86 & 14,790 & 7.26 \\
937 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and 2 stage FGMRES algorithms for ex54 of Petsc (both with the MG preconditioner) with 25000 components per core on Curie (restart=30, s=12), time is expressed in seconds.}
943 In Table~\ref{tab:04}, some experiments with example ex54 on the Curie architecture are reported
948 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
951 nb. cores & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{efficiency} \\
952 \cline{2-7} \cline{9-11}
953 & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & & GMRES & TS CGLS & TS LSQR\\\hline \hline
954 512 & 3,969.69 & 33,120 & 709.57 & 5,790 & 622.76 & 5,070 & 6.37 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
955 1024 & 1,530.06 & 25,860 & 290.95 & 4,830 & 307.71 & 5,070 & 5.25 & 1.30 & 1.21 & 1.01 \\
956 2048 & 919.62 & 31,470 & 237.52 & 8,040 & 194.22 & 6,510 & 4.73 & 1.08 & .75 & .80\\
957 4096 & 405.60 & 28,380 & 111.67 & 7,590 & 91.72 & 6,510 & 4.42 & 1.22 & .79 & .84 \\
958 8192 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 & .32 & .58 & .56 \\
963 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and 2 stage FGMRES algorithms for ex54 of Petsc (both with the MG preconditioner) with 204,919,225 components on Curie with different number of cores (restart=30, s=12, threshol 5e-5), time is expressed in seconds.}
968 %%%*********************************************************
969 %%%*********************************************************
973 %%%*********************************************************
974 %%%*********************************************************
977 %The conclusion goes here. this is more of the conclusion
978 %%%*********************************************************
979 %%%*********************************************************
983 - study other kinds of matrices, problems, inner solvers\\
984 - test the influence of all the parameters\\
985 - adaptative number of outer iterations to minimize\\
986 - other methods to minimize the residuals?\\
987 - implement our solver inside PETSc
990 % conference papers do not normally have an appendix
994 % use section* for acknowledgement
995 %%%*********************************************************
996 %%%*********************************************************
997 \section*{Acknowledgment}
998 This paper is partially funded by the Labex ACTION program (contract
999 ANR-11-LABX-01-01). We acknowledge PRACE for awarding us access to resource
1000 Curie and Juqueen respectively based in France and Germany.
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