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429 In this paper we propose a two stage iterative method which increases the
430 convergence of Krylov iterative methods, typically those of GMRES variants. The
431 principle of our approach is to build an external iteration over the Krylov
432 method and to save the current residual frequently (for example, for each
433 restart of GMRES). Then after a given number of outer iterations, a minimization
434 step is applied on the matrix composed of the save residuals in order to compute
435 a better solution and make a new iteration if necessary. We prove that our
436 method has the same convergence property than the inner method used. Some
437 experiments using up to 16,394 cores show that compared to GMRES our algorithm
438 can be around 7 times faster.
442 Iterative Krylov methods; sparse linear systems; error minimization; PETSc; %à voir...
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545 \section{Introduction}
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550 Iterative methods became more attractive than direct ones to solve very large
551 sparse linear systems. Iterative methods are more effecient in a parallel
552 context, with thousands of cores, and require less memory and arithmetic
553 operations than direct methods. A number of iterative methods are proposed and
554 adapted by many researchers and the increased need for solving very large sparse
555 linear systems triggered the development of efficient iterative techniques
556 suitable for the parallel processing.
558 Most of the successful iterative methods currently available are based on Krylov
559 subspaces which consist in forming a basis of a sequence of successive matrix
560 powers times an initial vector for example the residual. These methods are based
561 on orthogonality of vectors of the Krylov subspace basis to solve linear
562 systems. The most well-known iterative Krylov subspace methods are Conjugate
563 Gradient method and GMRES method (generalized minimal residual).
565 However, iterative methods suffer from scalability problems on parallel
566 computing platforms with many processors due to their need for reduction
567 operations and collective communications to perform matrix-vector
568 multiplications. The communications on large clusters with thousands of cores
569 and large sizes of messages can significantly affect the performances of
570 iterative methods. In practice, Krylov subspace iteration methods are often used
571 with preconditioners in order to increase their convergence and accelerate their
572 performances. However, most of the good preconditioners are not scalable on
575 In this paper we propose a two-stage algorithm based on two nested iterations
576 called inner-outer iterations. This algorithm consists in solving the sparse
577 linear system iteratively with a small number of inner iterations and restarts
578 the outer step with a new solution minimizing some error functions over some
579 previous residuals. This algorithm is iterative and easy to parallelize on large
580 clusters and the minimization technique improves its convergence and
583 The present paper is organized as follows. In Section~\ref{sec:02} some related
584 works are presented. Section~\ref{sec:03} presents our two-stage algorithm using
585 a least-square residual minimization. Section~\ref{sec:04} describes some
586 convergence results on this method. In Section~\ref{sec:05}, parallization
587 details of TSARM are given. Section~\ref{sec:06} shows some experimental
588 results obtained on large clusters of our algorithm using routines of PETSc
589 toolkit. Finally Section~\ref{sec:06} concludes and gives some perspectives.
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597 \section{Related works}
599 %Wherever Times is specified, Times Roman or Times New Roman may be used. If neither is available on your system, please use the font closest in appearance to Times. Avoid using bit-mapped fonts if possible. True-Type 1 or Open Type fonts are preferred. Please embed symbol fonts, as well, for math, etc.
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607 \section{Two-stage algorithm with least-square residuals minimization}
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. The algorithm is implemented as an
613 inner-outer iteration solver based on iterative Krylov methods. The main key
614 points of our solver are given in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}.
616 In order to accelerate the convergence, the outer iteration periodically applies
617 a least-square minimization on the residuals computed by the inner solver. The
618 inner solver is a Krylov based solver which does not required to be changed.
620 At each outer iteration, the sparse linear system $Ax=b$ is solved, only for $m$
621 iterations, using an iterative method restarting with the previous solution. For
622 example, the GMRES method~\cite{Saad86} or some of its variants can be used as a
623 inner solver. The current solution of the Krylov method is saved inside a matrix
624 $S$ composed of successive solutions computed by the inner iteration.
626 Periodically, every $s$ iterations, the minimization step is applied in order to
627 compute a new solution $x$. For that, the previous residuals are computed with
628 $(b-AS)$. The minimization of the residuals is obtained by
630 \underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2
633 with $R=AS$. Then the new solution $x$ is computed with $x=S\alpha$.
636 In practice, $R$ is a dense rectangular matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$,
637 $s\ll n$. In order to minimize~(\ref{eq:01}), a least-square method such as
638 CGLS ~\cite{Hestenes52} or LSQR~\cite{Paige82} is used. Those methods are more
639 appropriate than a direct method in a parallel context.
643 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
644 \Input $A$ (sparse matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
645 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
646 \State Set the initial guess $x^0$
647 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence (error$<\epsilon_{kryl}$)} \label{algo:conv}
648 \State $x^k=Solve(A,b,x^{k-1},max\_iter_{kryl})$ \label{algo:solve}
649 \State retrieve error
650 \State $S_{k~mod~s}=x^k$ \label{algo:store}
651 \If {$k$ mod $s=0$ {\bf and} error$>\epsilon_{kryl}$}
652 \State $R=AS$ \Comment{compute dense matrix}
653 \State Solve least-squares problem $\underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2$ \label{algo:}
654 \State $x^k=S\alpha$ \Comment{compute new solution}
661 Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} summarizes the principle of our method. The outer
662 iteration is inside the for loop. Line~\ref{algo:solve}, the Krylov method is
663 called for a maximum of $max\_iter_{kryl}$ iterations. In practice, we suggest to set this parameter
664 equals to the restart number of the GMRES-like method. Moreover, a tolerance
665 threshold must be specified for the solver. In practice, this threshold must be
666 much smaller than the convergence threshold of the TSARM algorithm (i.e.
667 $\epsilon$). Line~\ref{algo:store}, $S_{k~ mod~ s}=x^k$ consists in copying the
668 solution $x_k$ into the column $k~ mod~ s$ of the matrix $S$. After the
669 minimization, the matrix $S$ is reused with the new values of the residuals. To
670 solve the minimization problem, an iterative method is used. Two parameters are
671 required for that: the maximum number of iteration and the threshold to stop the
674 To summarize, the important parameters of are:
676 \item $\epsilon_{kryl}$ the threshold to stop the method of the krylov method
677 \item $max\_iter_{kryl}$ the maximum number of iterations for the krylov method
678 \item $s$ the number of outer iterations before applying the minimization step
679 \item $max\_iter_{ls}$ the maximum number of iterations for the iterative least-square method
680 \item $\epsilon_{ls}$ the threshold to stop the least-square method
683 %%%*********************************************************
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686 \section{Convergence results}
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693 \section{Parallelization}
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698 \section{Experiments using petsc}
702 In order to see the influence of our algorithm with only one processor, we first
703 show a comparison with the standard version of GMRES and our algorithm. In
704 table~\ref{tab:01}, we show the matrices we have used and some of them
705 characteristics. For all the matrices, the name, the field, the number of rows
706 and the number of nonzero elements is given.
710 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|}
712 Matrix name & Field &\# Rows & \# Nonzeros \\\hline \hline
713 crashbasis & Optimization & 160,000 & 1,750,416 \\
714 parabolic\_fem & Computational fluid dynamics & 525,825 & 2,100,225 \\
715 epb3 & Thermal problem & 84,617 & 463,625 \\
716 atmosmodj & Computational fluid dynamics & 1,270,432 & 8,814,880 \\
717 bfwa398 & Electromagnetics problem & 398 & 3,678 \\
718 torso3 & 2D/3D problem & 259,156 & 4,429,042 \\
722 \caption{Main characteristics of the sparse matrices chosen from the Davis collection}
727 The following parameters have been chosen for our experiments. As by default
728 the restart of GMRES is performed every 30 iterations, we have chosen to stop
729 the GMRES every 30 iterations (line \ref{algo:solve} in
730 Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}). $s$ is set to 8. CGLS is chosen to minimize the
731 least-squares problem. Two conditions are used to stop CGLS, either the
732 precision is under $1e-40$ or the number of iterations is greater to $20$. The
733 external precision is set to $1e-10$ (line \ref{algo:conv} in
734 Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}). Those experiments have been performed on a Intel(R)
735 Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz with the version 3.5.1 of PETSc.
738 In Table~\ref{tab:02}, some experiments comparing the solving of the linear
739 systems obtained with the previous matrices with a GMRES variant and with out 2
740 stage algorithm are given. In the second column, it can be noticed that either
741 gmres or fgmres is used to solve the linear system. According to the matrices,
742 different preconditioner is used. With the 2 stage algorithm, the same solver
743 and the same preconditionner is used. This Table shows that the 2 stage
744 algorithm can drastically reduce the number of iterations to reach the
745 convergence when the number of iterations for the normal GMRES is more or less
746 greater than 500. In fact this also depends on tow parameters: the number of
747 iterations to stop GMRES and the number of iterations to perform the
753 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|r|}
756 \multirow{2}{*}{Matrix name} & Solver / & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{gmres variant} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage CGLS} \\
758 & precond & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. \\\hline \hline
760 crashbasis & gmres / none & 15.65 & 518 & 14.12 & 450 \\
761 parabolic\_fem & gmres / ilu & 1009.94 & 7573 & 401.52 & 2970 \\
762 epb3 & fgmres / sor & 8.67 & 600 & 8.21 & 540 \\
763 atmosmodj & fgmres / sor & 104.23 & 451 & 88.97 & 366 \\
764 bfwa398 & gmres / none & 1.42 & 9612 & 0.28 & 1650 \\
765 torso3 & fgmres / sor & 37.70 & 565 & 34.97 & 510 \\
769 \caption{Comparison of (F)GMRES and 2 stage (F)GMRES algorithms in sequential with some matrices, time is expressed in seconds.}
777 Larger experiments ....
781 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
784 nb. cores & precond & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{gmres variant} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage LSQR} & best gain \\
786 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
787 2,048 & mg & 403.49 & 18,210 & 73.89 & 3,060 & 77.84 & 3,270 & 5.46 \\
788 2,048 & sor & 745.37 & 57,060 & 87.31 & 6,150 & 104.21 & 7,230 & 8.53 \\
789 4,096 & mg & 562.25 & 25,170 & 97.23 & 3,990 & 89.71 & 3,630 & 6.27 \\
790 4,096 & sor & 912.12 & 70,194 & 145.57 & 9,750 & 168.97 & 10,980 & 6.26 \\
791 8,192 & mg & 917.02 & 40,290 & 148.81 & 5,730 & 143.03 & 5,280 & 6.41 \\
792 8,192 & sor & 1,404.53 & 106,530 & 212.55 & 12,990 & 180.97 & 10,470 & 7.76 \\
793 16,384 & mg & 1,430.56 & 63,930 & 237.17 & 8,310 & 244.26 & 7,950 & 6.03 \\
794 16,384 & sor & 2,852.14 & 216,240 & 418.46 & 21,690 & 505.26 & 23,970 & 6.82 \\
798 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and 2 stage FGMRES algorithms for ex15 of Petsc with 25000 components per core on Juqueen (threshold 1e-3, restart=30, s=12), time is expressed in seconds.}
806 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
809 nb. cores & threshold & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{gmres variant} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage LSQR} & best gain \\
811 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
812 2,048 & 8e-5 & 108.88 & 16,560 & 23.06 & 3,630 & 22.79 & 3,630 & 4.77 \\
813 2,048 & 6e-5 & 194.01 & 30,270 & 35.50 & 5,430 & 27.74 & 4,350 & 6.99 \\
814 4,096 & 7e-5 & 160.59 & 22,530 & 35.15 & 5,130 & 29.21 & 4,350 & 5.49 \\
815 4,096 & 6e-5 & 249.27 & 35,520 & 52.13 & 7,950 & 39.24 & 5,790 & 6.35 \\
816 8,192 & 6e-5 & 149.54 & 17,280 & 28.68 & 3,810 & 29.05 & 3,990 & 5.21 \\
817 8,192 & 5e-5 & 792.11 & 109,590 & 76.83 & 10,470 & 65.20 & 9,030 & 12.14 \\
818 16,384 & 4e-5 & 718.61 & 86,400 & 98.98 & 10,830 & 131.86 & 14,790 & 7.26 \\
822 \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.}
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835 %The conclusion goes here. this is more of the conclusion
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837 %%%*********************************************************
841 - study other kinds of matrices, problems, inner solvers\\
842 - adaptative number of outer iterations to minimize\\
843 - other methods to minimize the residuals?\\
844 - implement our solver inside PETSc
847 % conference papers do not normally have an appendix
851 % use section* for acknowledgement
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853 %%%*********************************************************
854 \section*{Acknowledgment}
855 This paper is partially funded by the Labex ACTION program (contract
856 ANR-11-LABX-01-01). We acknowledge PRACE for awarding us access to resource
857 Curie and Juqueen respectively based in France and Germany.
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