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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
430 variants. The principle of the proposed approach is to build an external
431 iteration over the Krylov method, and to frequently store its current residual
432 (at each GMRES restart for instance). After a given number of outer iterations,
433 a least-squares minimization step is applied on the matrix composed by the saved
434 residuals, in order to compute a better solution and to make new iterations if
435 required. It is proven that the proposal has the same convergence properties
436 than the inner embedded method itself. Experiments using up to 16,394 cores
437 also show that the proposed algorithm runs around 5 or 7 times faster than
442 Iterative Krylov methods; sparse linear systems; residual minimization; PETSc; %à voir...
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545 \section{Introduction}
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550 Iterative methods have recently become more attractive than direct ones to solve very large
551 sparse linear systems. They are more efficient in a parallel
552 context, supporting thousands of cores, and they require less memory and arithmetic
553 operations than direct methods. This is why new iterative methods are frequently
554 proposed or adapted by researchers, and the increasing need to solve very large sparse
555 linear systems has triggered the development of such efficient iterative techniques
556 suitable for parallel processing.
558 Most of the successful iterative methods currently available are based on so-called ``Krylov
559 subspaces''. They consist in forming a basis of successive matrix
560 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
561 systems. The most known iterative Krylov subspace methods are conjugate
562 gradient and GMRES ones (Generalized Minimal RESidual).
565 However, iterative methods suffer from scalability problems on parallel
566 computing platforms with many processors, due to their need of reduction
567 operations, and to collective communications to achieve 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 these
570 iterative methods. As a consequence, Krylov subspace iteration methods are often used
571 with preconditioners in practice, to increase their convergence and accelerate their
572 performances. However, most of the good preconditioners are not scalable on
575 In this research work, a two-stage algorithm based on two nested iterations
576 called inner-outer iterations is proposed. This algorithm consists in solving the sparse
577 linear system iteratively with a small number of inner iterations, and restarting
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. Furthermore, the minimization technique improves its convergence and
583 The present article is organized as follows. Related works are presented in
584 Section~\ref{sec:02}. Section~\ref{sec:03} details the two-stage algorithm using
585 a least-squares residual minimization, while Section~\ref{sec:04} provides
586 convergence results regarding this method. Section~\ref{sec:05} shows some
587 experimental results obtained on large clusters using routines of PETSc
588 toolkit. This research work ends by a conclusion section, in which the proposal
589 is summarized while intended perspectives are provided.
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598 \section{Related works}
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608 \section{Two-stage iteration with least-squares residuals minimization algorithm}
610 A two-stage algorithm is proposed to solve large sparse linear systems of the
611 form $Ax=b$, where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is a sparse and square
612 nonsingular matrix, $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the solution vector, and
613 $b\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the right-hand side. As explained previously,
614 the algorithm is implemented as an
615 inner-outer iteration solver based on iterative Krylov methods. The main
616 key-points of the proposed solver are given in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}.
617 It can be summarized as follows: the
618 inner solver is a Krylov based one. In order to accelerate its convergence, the
619 outer solver periodically applies a least-squares minimization on the residuals computed by the inner one. %Tsolver which does not required to be changed.
621 At each outer iteration, the sparse linear system $Ax=b$ is partially
622 solved using only $m$
623 iterations of an iterative method, this latter being initialized with the
624 best known approximation previously obtained.
625 GMRES method~\cite{Saad86}, or any of its variants, can be used for instance as an
626 inner solver. The current approximation of the Krylov method is then stored inside a matrix
627 $S$ composed by the successive solutions that are computed during inner iterations.
629 At each $s$ iterations, the minimization step is applied in order to
630 compute a new solution $x$. For that, the previous residuals of $Ax=b$ are computed by
631 the inner iterations with $(b-AS)$. The minimization of the residuals is obtained by
633 \underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2
636 with $R=AS$. Then the new solution $x$ is computed with $x=S\alpha$.
639 In practice, $R$ is a dense rectangular matrix belonging in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$,
640 with $s\ll n$. In order to minimize~\eqref{eq:01}, a least-squares method such as
641 CGLS ~\cite{Hestenes52} or LSQR~\cite{Paige82} is used. Remark that these methods are more
642 appropriate than a single direct method in a parallel context.
648 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
649 \Input $A$ (sparse matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
650 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
651 \State Set the initial guess $x_0$
652 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence (error$<\epsilon_{tsirm}$)} \label{algo:conv}
653 \State $x_k=Solve(A,b,x_{k-1},max\_iter_{kryl})$ \label{algo:solve}
654 \State retrieve error
655 \State $S_{k \mod s}=x_k$ \label{algo:store}
656 \If {$k \mod s=0$ {\bf and} error$>\epsilon_{kryl}$}
657 \State $R=AS$ \Comment{compute dense matrix} \label{algo:matrix_mul}
658 \State $\alpha=Least\_Squares(R,b,max\_iter_{ls})$ \label{algo:}
659 \State $x_k=S\alpha$ \Comment{compute new solution}
666 Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} summarizes the principle of our method. The outer
667 iteration is inside the for loop. Line~\ref{algo:solve}, the Krylov method is
668 called for a maximum of $max\_iter_{kryl}$ iterations. In practice, we suggest to set this parameter
669 equals to the restart number of the GMRES-like method. Moreover, a tolerance
670 threshold must be specified for the solver. In practice, this threshold must be
671 much smaller than the convergence threshold of the TSIRM algorithm (\emph{i.e.}
672 $\epsilon_{tsirm}$). Line~\ref{algo:store}, $S_{k \mod s}=x^k$ consists in copying the
673 solution $x_k$ into the column $k \mod s$ of the matrix $S$, where $S$ is a matrix of size $n\times s$ whose column vector $i$ is denoted by $S_i$. After the
674 minimization, the matrix $S$ is reused with the new values of the residuals. To
675 solve the minimization problem, an iterative method is used. Two parameters are
676 required for that: the maximum number of iterations and the threshold to stop the
679 Let us summarize the most important parameters of TSIRM:
681 \item $\epsilon_{tsirm}$: the threshold to stop the TSIRM method;
682 \item $max\_iter_{kryl}$: the maximum number of iterations for the Krylov method;
683 \item $s$: the number of outer iterations before applying the minimization step;
684 \item $max\_iter_{ls}$: the maximum number of iterations for the iterative least-squares method;
685 \item $\epsilon_{ls}$: the threshold used to stop the least-squares method.
689 The parallelization of TSIRM relies on the parallelization of all its
690 parts. More precisely, except the least-squares step, all the other parts are
691 obvious to achieve out in parallel. In order to develop a parallel version of
692 our code, we have chosen to use PETSc~\cite{petsc-web-page}. For
693 line~\ref{algo:matrix_mul} the matrix-matrix multiplication is implemented and
694 efficient since the matrix $A$ is sparse and since the matrix $S$ contains few
695 columns in practice. As explained previously, at least two methods seem to be
696 interesting to solve the least-squares minimization, CGLS and LSQR.
698 In the following we remind the CGLS algorithm. The LSQR method follows more or
699 less the same principle but it takes more place, so we briefly explain the parallelization of CGLS which is similar to LSQR.
703 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
704 \Input $A$ (matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
705 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
706 \State Let $x_0$ be an initial approximation
710 \State $\gamma=||s_0||^2_2$
711 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence ($\gamma<\epsilon_{ls}$)} \label{algo2:conv}
713 \State $\alpha_k=\gamma/||q_k||^2_2$
714 \State $x_k=x_{k-1}+\alpha_kp_k$
715 \State $r_k=r_{k-1}-\alpha_kq_k$
717 \State $\gamma_{old}=\gamma$
718 \State $\gamma=||s_k||^2_2$
719 \State $\beta_k=\gamma/\gamma_{old}$
720 \State $p_{k+1}=s_k+\beta_kp_k$
727 In each iteration of CGLS, there is two matrix-vector multiplications and some
728 classical operations: dot product, norm, multiplication and addition on vectors. All
729 these operations are easy to implement in PETSc or similar environment.
733 %%%*********************************************************
734 %%%*********************************************************
736 \section{Convergence results}
738 Let us recall the following result, see~\cite{Saad86}.
741 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:
743 ||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_0|| ,
745 where $\alpha = \lambda_{min}(M)^2$ and $\beta = \lambda_{max}(A^T A)$, which proves
746 the convergence of GMRES($m$) for all $m$ under that assumption regarding $A$.
750 We can now claim that,
752 If $A$ is a positive real matrix and GMRES($m$) is used as solver, then the TSIRM algorithm is convergent. Furthermore,
754 $k$-th residue of TSIRM, then
757 ||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0|| ,
759 where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are defined as in Proposition~\ref{prop:saad}.
763 We will prove by a mathematical induction that, for each $k \in \mathbb{N}^\ast$,
764 $||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}} ||r_0||.$
766 The base case is obvious, as for $k=1$, the TSIRM algorithm simply consists in applying GMRES($m$) once, leading to a new residual $r_1$ which follows the inductive hypothesis due to Proposition~\ref{prop:saad}.
768 Suppose now that the claim holds for all $m=1, 2, \hdots, k-1$, that is, $\forall m \in \{1,2,\hdots, k-1\}$, $||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0||$.
769 We will show that the statement holds too for $r_k$. Two situations can occur:
771 \item If $k \mod m \neq 0$, then the TSIRM algorithm consists in executing GMRES once. In that case, we obtain $||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_{k-1}||\leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0||$ by the inductive hypothesis.
772 \item Else, the TSIRM algorithm consists in two stages: a first GMRES($m$) execution leads to a temporary $x_k$ whose residue satisfies $||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_{k-1}||\leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0||$, and a least squares resolution.
773 Let $\operatorname{span}(S) = \left \{ {\sum_{i=1}^k \lambda_i v_i \Big| k \in \mathbb{N}, v_i \in S, \lambda _i \in \mathbb{R}} \right \}$ be the linear span of a set of real vectors $S$. So,\\
774 $\min_{\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^s} ||b-R\alpha ||_2 = \min_{\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^s} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2$
777 & = \min_{x \in span\left(S_{k-s+1}, S_{k-s+2}, \hdots, S_{k} \right)} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2\\
778 & = \min_{x \in span\left(x_{k-s+1}, x_{k-s}+2, \hdots, x_{k} \right)} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2\\
779 & \leqslant \min_{x \in span\left( x_{k} \right)} ||b-Ax ||_2\\
780 & \leqslant \min_{\lambda \in \mathbb{R}} ||b-\lambda Ax_{k} ||_2\\
781 & \leqslant ||b-Ax_{k}||_2\\
783 & \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0||,
786 which concludes the induction and the proof.
789 We can remark that, at each iterate, the residue of the TSIRM algorithm is lower
790 than the one of the GMRES method.
792 %%%*********************************************************
793 %%%*********************************************************
794 \section{Experiments using PETSc}
798 In order to see the influence of our algorithm with only one processor, we first
799 show a comparison with the standard version of GMRES and our algorithm. In
800 Table~\ref{tab:01}, we show the matrices we have used and some of them
801 characteristics. For all the matrices, the name, the field, the number of rows
802 and the number of nonzero elements are given.
806 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|}
808 Matrix name & Field &\# Rows & \# Nonzeros \\\hline \hline
809 crashbasis & Optimization & 160,000 & 1,750,416 \\
810 parabolic\_fem & Comput. fluid dynamics & 525,825 & 2,100,225 \\
811 epb3 & Thermal problem & 84,617 & 463,625 \\
812 atmosmodj & Comput. fluid dynamics & 1,270,432 & 8,814,880 \\
813 bfwa398 & Electromagnetics pb & 398 & 3,678 \\
814 torso3 & 2D/3D problem & 259,156 & 4,429,042 \\
818 \caption{Main characteristics of the sparse matrices chosen from the Davis collection}
823 The following parameters have been chosen for our experiments. As by default
824 the restart of GMRES is performed every 30 iterations, we have chosen to stop
825 the GMRES every 30 iterations (\emph{i.e.} $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$). $s$ is set to 8. CGLS is
826 chosen to minimize the least-squares problem with the following parameters:
827 $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$ and $max\_iter_{ls}=20$. The external precision is set to
828 $\epsilon_{tsirm}=1e-10$. Those experiments have been performed on a Intel(R)
829 Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz with the version 3.5.1 of PETSc.
832 In Table~\ref{tab:02}, some experiments comparing the solving of the linear
833 systems obtained with the previous matrices with a GMRES variant and with out 2
834 stage algorithm are given. In the second column, it can be noticed that either
835 gmres or fgmres is used to solve the linear system. According to the matrices,
836 different preconditioner is used. With TSIRM, the same solver and the same
837 preconditionner are used. This Table shows that TSIRM can drastically reduce the
838 number of iterations to reach the convergence when the number of iterations for
839 the normal GMRES is more or less greater than 500. In fact this also depends on
840 tow parameters: the number of iterations to stop GMRES and the number of
841 iterations to perform the minimization.
846 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|r|}
849 \multirow{2}{*}{Matrix name} & Solver / & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} \\
851 & precond & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. \\\hline \hline
853 crashbasis & gmres / none & 15.65 & 518 & 14.12 & 450 \\
854 parabolic\_fem & gmres / ilu & 1009.94 & 7573 & 401.52 & 2970 \\
855 epb3 & fgmres / sor & 8.67 & 600 & 8.21 & 540 \\
856 atmosmodj & fgmres / sor & 104.23 & 451 & 88.97 & 366 \\
857 bfwa398 & gmres / none & 1.42 & 9612 & 0.28 & 1650 \\
858 torso3 & fgmres / sor & 37.70 & 565 & 34.97 & 510 \\
862 \caption{Comparison of (F)GMRES and TSIRM with (F)GMRES in sequential with some matrices, time is expressed in seconds.}
871 In order to perform larger experiments, we have tested some example applications
872 of PETSc. Those applications are available in the ksp part which is suited for
873 scalable linear equations solvers:
875 \item ex15 is an example which solves in parallel an operator using a finite
876 difference scheme. The diagonal is equal to 4 and 4 extra-diagonals
877 representing the neighbors in each directions are equal to -1. This example is
878 used in many physical phenomena, for example, heat and fluid flow, wave
880 \item ex54 is another example based on 2D problem discretized with quadrilateral
881 finite elements. For this example, the user can define the scaling of material
882 coefficient in embedded circle called $\alpha$.
884 For more technical details on these applications, interested readers are invited
885 to read the codes available in the PETSc sources. Those problems have been
886 chosen because they are scalable with many cores which is not the case of other problems that we have tested.
888 In the following larger experiments are described on two large scale architectures: Curie and Juqeen... {\bf description...}\\
891 {\bf Description of preconditioners}\\
895 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
898 nb. cores & precond & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain \\
900 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
901 2,048 & mg & 403.49 & 18,210 & 73.89 & 3,060 & 77.84 & 3,270 & 5.46 \\
902 2,048 & sor & 745.37 & 57,060 & 87.31 & 6,150 & 104.21 & 7,230 & 8.53 \\
903 4,096 & mg & 562.25 & 25,170 & 97.23 & 3,990 & 89.71 & 3,630 & 6.27 \\
904 4,096 & sor & 912.12 & 70,194 & 145.57 & 9,750 & 168.97 & 10,980 & 6.26 \\
905 8,192 & mg & 917.02 & 40,290 & 148.81 & 5,730 & 143.03 & 5,280 & 6.41 \\
906 8,192 & sor & 1,404.53 & 106,530 & 212.55 & 12,990 & 180.97 & 10,470 & 7.76 \\
907 16,384 & mg & 1,430.56 & 63,930 & 237.17 & 8,310 & 244.26 & 7,950 & 6.03 \\
908 16,384 & sor & 2,852.14 & 216,240 & 418.46 & 21,690 & 505.26 & 23,970 & 6.82 \\
912 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM with FGMRES for example ex15 of PETSc with two preconditioners (mg and sor) with 25,000 components per core on Juqueen (threshold 1e-3, restart=30, s=12), time is expressed in seconds.}
917 Table~\ref{tab:03} shows the execution times and the number of iterations of
918 example ex15 of PETSc on the Juqueen architecture. Different numbers of cores
919 are studied ranging from 2,048 up-to 16,383. Two preconditioners have been
920 tested: {\it mg} and {\it sor}. For those experiments, the number of components (or unknowns of the
921 problems) per core is fixed to 25,000, also called weak scaling. This
922 number can seem relatively small. In fact, for some applications that need a lot
923 of memory, the number of components per processor requires sometimes to be
928 In Table~\ref{tab:03}, we can notice that TSIRM is always faster than FGMRES. The last
929 column shows the ratio between FGMRES and the best version of TSIRM according to
930 the minimization procedure: CGLS or LSQR. Even if we have computed the worst
931 case between CGLS and LSQR, it is clear that TSIRM is always faster than
932 FGMRES. For this example, the multigrid preconditioner is faster than SOR. The
933 gain between TSIRM and FGMRES is more or less similar for the two
934 preconditioners. Looking at the number of iterations to reach the convergence,
935 it is obvious that TSIRM allows the reduction of the number of iterations. It
936 should be noticed that for TSIRM, in those experiments, only the iterations of
937 the Krylov solver are taken into account. Iterations of CGLS or LSQR were not
938 recorded but they are time-consuming. In general each $max\_iter_{kryl}*s$ which
939 corresponds to 30*12, there are $max\_iter_{ls}$ which corresponds to 15.
943 \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex15_juqueen}
944 \caption{Number of iterations per second with ex15 and the same parameters than in Table~\ref{tab:03} (weak scaling)}
949 In Figure~\ref{fig:01}, the number of iterations per second corresponding to
950 Table~\ref{tab:03} is displayed. It can be noticed that the number of
951 iterations per second of FMGRES is constant whereas it decreases with TSIRM with
952 both preconditioners. This can be explained by the fact that when the number of
953 cores increases the time for the least-squares minimization step also increases but, generally,
954 when the number of cores increases, the number of iterations to reach the
955 threshold also increases, and, in that case, TSIRM is more efficient to reduce
956 the number of iterations. So, the overall benefit of using TSIRM is interesting.
965 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
968 nb. cores & threshold & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain \\
970 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
971 2,048 & 8e-5 & 108.88 & 16,560 & 23.06 & 3,630 & 22.79 & 3,630 & 4.77 \\
972 2,048 & 6e-5 & 194.01 & 30,270 & 35.50 & 5,430 & 27.74 & 4,350 & 6.99 \\
973 4,096 & 7e-5 & 160.59 & 22,530 & 35.15 & 5,130 & 29.21 & 4,350 & 5.49 \\
974 4,096 & 6e-5 & 249.27 & 35,520 & 52.13 & 7,950 & 39.24 & 5,790 & 6.35 \\
975 8,192 & 6e-5 & 149.54 & 17,280 & 28.68 & 3,810 & 29.05 & 3,990 & 5.21 \\
976 8,192 & 5e-5 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 \\
977 16,384 & 4e-5 & 718.61 & 86,400 & 98.98 & 10,830 & 131.86 & 14,790 & 7.26 \\
981 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM with FGMRES algorithms for ex54 of Petsc (both with the MG preconditioner) with 25,000 components per core on Curie (restart=30, s=12), time is expressed in seconds.}
987 In Table~\ref{tab:04}, some experiments with example ex54 on the Curie architecture are reported.
992 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
995 nb. cores & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{efficiency} \\
996 \cline{2-7} \cline{9-11}
997 & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & & FGMRES & TS CGLS & TS LSQR\\\hline \hline
998 512 & 3,969.69 & 33,120 & 709.57 & 5,790 & 622.76 & 5,070 & 6.37 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
999 1024 & 1,530.06 & 25,860 & 290.95 & 4,830 & 307.71 & 5,070 & 5.25 & 1.30 & 1.21 & 1.01 \\
1000 2048 & 919.62 & 31,470 & 237.52 & 8,040 & 194.22 & 6,510 & 4.73 & 1.08 & .75 & .80\\
1001 4096 & 405.60 & 28,380 & 111.67 & 7,590 & 91.72 & 6,510 & 4.42 & 1.22 & .79 & .84 \\
1002 8192 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 & .32 & .58 & .56 \\
1007 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM with FGMRES 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, threshold 5e-5), time is expressed in seconds.}
1012 \begin{figure}[htbp]
1014 \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex54_curie}
1015 \caption{Number of iterations per second with ex54 and the same parameters than in Table~\ref{tab:05} (strong scaling)}
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1024 %%%*********************************************************
1025 %%%*********************************************************
1026 \section{Conclusion}
1028 %The conclusion goes here. this is more of the conclusion
1029 %%%*********************************************************
1030 %%%*********************************************************
1032 A novel two-stage iterative algorithm has been proposed in this article,
1033 in order to accelerate the convergence Krylov iterative methods.
1034 Our TSIRM proposal acts as a merger between Krylov based solvers and
1035 a least-squares minimization step.
1036 The convergence of the method has been proven in some situations, while
1037 experiments up to 16,394 cores have been led to verify that TSIRM runs
1038 5 or 7 times faster than GMRES.
1041 For future work, the authors' intention is to investigate
1042 other kinds of matrices, problems, and inner solvers. The
1043 influence of all parameters must be tested too, while
1044 other methods to minimize the residuals must be regarded.
1045 The number of outer iterations to minimize should become
1046 adaptative to improve the overall performances of the proposal.
1047 Finally, this solver will be implemented inside PETSc.
1050 % conference papers do not normally have an appendix
1054 % use section* for acknowledgement
1055 %%%*********************************************************
1056 %%%*********************************************************
1057 \section*{Acknowledgment}
1058 This paper is partially funded by the Labex ACTION program (contract
1059 ANR-11-LABX-01-01). We acknowledge PRACE for awarding us access to resources
1060 Curie and Juqueen respectively based in France and Germany.
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