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76 \LRH{R. Couturier, L. Ziane Khodja and C. Guyeux}
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78 \RRH{TSIRM: A Two-Stage Iteration with least-squares Residual Minimization algorithm}
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92 \title{TSIRM: A Two-Stage Iteration with least-squares Residual Minimization algorithm to solve large sparse linear and non linear systems}
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95 \authorA{Rapha\"el Couturier}
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97 \affA{Femto-ST Institute, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comte, France\\
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98 E-mail: raphael.couturier@univ-fcomte.fr}
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101 \authorB{Lilia Ziane Khodja}
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102 \affB{LTAS-Mécanique numérique non linéaire, University of Liege, Belgium \\
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103 E-mail: l.zianekhodja@ulg.ac.be}
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105 \authorC{Christophe Guyeux}
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106 \affC{Femto-ST Institute, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comte, France\\
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107 E-mail: christophe.guyeux@univ-fcomte.fr}
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111 In this paper, a two-stage iterative algorithm is proposed to improve the
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112 convergence of Krylov based iterative methods, typically those of GMRES
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113 variants. The principle of the proposed approach is to build an external
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114 iteration over the Krylov method, and to frequently store its current residual
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115 (at each GMRES restart for instance). After a given number of outer iterations,
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116 a least-squares minimization step is applied on the matrix composed by the saved
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117 residuals, in order to compute a better solution and to make new iterations if
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118 required. It is proven that the proposal has the same convergence properties
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119 than the inner embedded method itself.
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121 Several experiments have been performed
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122 with the PETSc solver with linear and nonlinear problems. They show good
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123 speedups compared to GMRES with up to 16,394 cores with different
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130 \KEYWORD{Iterative Krylov methods; sparse linear and non linear systems; two stage iteration; least-squares residual minimization; PETSc.}
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139 Raphaël Couturier ....
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141 \noindent Lilia Ziane Khodja ...
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143 \noindent Christophe Guyeux ...
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150 \section{Introduction}
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152 Iterative methods have recently become more attractive than direct ones to solve
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153 very large sparse linear systems~\cite{Saad2003}. They are more efficient in a
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154 parallel context, supporting thousands of cores, and they require less memory
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155 and arithmetic operations than direct methods~\cite{bahicontascoutu}. This is
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156 why new iterative methods are frequently proposed or adapted by researchers, and
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157 the increasing need to solve very large sparse linear systems has triggered the
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158 development of such efficient iterative techniques suitable for parallel
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161 Most of the successful iterative methods currently available are based on
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162 so-called ``Krylov subspaces''. They consist in forming a basis of successive
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163 matrix powers multiplied by an initial vector, which can be for instance the
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164 residual. These methods use vectors orthogonality of the Krylov subspace basis
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165 in order to solve linear systems. The best known iterative Krylov subspace
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166 methods are conjugate gradient and GMRES ones (Generalized Minimal RESidual).
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169 However, iterative methods suffer from scalability problems on parallel
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170 computing platforms with many processors, due to their need of reduction
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171 operations, and to collective communications to achieve matrix-vector
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172 multiplications. The communications on large clusters with thousands of cores
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173 and large sizes of messages can significantly affect the performances of these
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174 iterative methods. As a consequence, Krylov subspace iteration methods are often
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175 used with preconditioners in practice, to increase their convergence and
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176 accelerate their performances. However, most of the good preconditioners are
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177 not scalable on large clusters.
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179 In this research work, a two-stage algorithm based on two nested iterations
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180 called inner-outer iterations is proposed. This algorithm consists in solving
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181 the sparse linear system iteratively with a small number of inner iterations,
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182 and restarting the outer step with a new solution minimizing some error
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183 functions over some previous residuals. For further information on two-stage
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184 iteration methods, interested readers are invited to
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185 consult~\cite{Nichols:1973:CTS}. Two-stage algorithms are easy to parallelize on
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186 large clusters. Furthermore, the least-squares minimization technique improves
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187 its convergence and performances.
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189 The present article is organized as follows. Related works are presented in
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190 Section~\ref{sec:02}. Section~\ref{sec:03} details the two-stage algorithm using
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191 a least-squares residual minimization, while Section~\ref{sec:04} provides
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192 convergence results regarding this method. Section~\ref{sec:05} shows some
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193 experimental results obtained on large clusters using routines of PETSc
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194 toolkit. This research work ends by a conclusion section, in which the proposal
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195 is summarized while intended perspectives are provided.
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206 \section{Related works}
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208 Krylov subspace iteration methods have increasingly become key
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209 techniques for solving linear and nonlinear systems, or eigenvalue problems,
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210 especially since the increasing development of
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211 preconditioners~\cite{Saad2003,Meijerink77}. One reason for the popularity of
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212 these methods is their generality, simplicity, and efficiency to solve systems of
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213 equations arising from very large and complex problems.
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215 GMRES is one of the most widely used Krylov iterative method for solving sparse
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216 and large linear systems. It has been developed by Saad \emph{et
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217 al.}~\cite{Saad86} as a generalized method to deal with unsymmetric and
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218 non-Hermitian problems, and indefinite symmetric problems too. In its original
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219 version called full GMRES, this algorithm minimizes the residual over the
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220 current Krylov subspace until convergence in at most $n$ iterations, where $n$
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221 is the size of the sparse matrix. Full GMRES is however too expensive in the
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222 case of large matrices, since the required orthogonalization process per
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223 iteration grows quadratically with the number of iterations. For that reason,
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224 GMRES is restarted in practice after each $m\ll n$ iterations, to avoid the
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225 storage of a large orthonormal basis. However, the convergence behavior of the
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226 restarted GMRES, called GMRES($m$), in many cases depends quite critically on
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227 the $m$ value~\cite{Huang89}. Therefore in most cases, a preconditioning
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228 technique is applied to the restarted GMRES method in order to improve its
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231 To enhance the robustness of Krylov iterative solvers, some techniques have been
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232 proposed allowing the use of different preconditioners, if necessary, within the
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233 iteration itself instead of restarting. Those techniques may lead to
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234 considerable savings in CPU time and memory requirements. Van der Vorst
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235 in~\cite{Vorst94} has for instance proposed variants of the GMRES algorithm in
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236 which a different preconditioner is applied in each iteration, leading to the
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237 so-called GMRESR family of nested methods. In fact, the GMRES method is
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238 effectively preconditioned with other iterative schemes (or GMRES itself), where
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239 the iterations of the GMRES method are called outer iterations while the
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240 iterations of the preconditioning process is referred to as inner iterations.
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241 Saad in~\cite{Saad:1993} has proposed Flexible GMRES (FGMRES) which is another
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242 variant of the GMRES algorithm using a variable preconditioner. In FGMRES the
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243 search directions are preconditioned whereas in GMRESR the residuals are
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244 preconditioned. However, in practice, good preconditioners are those based on
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245 direct methods, as ILU preconditioners, which are not easy to parallelize and
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246 suffer from the scalability problems on large clusters of thousands of cores.
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248 Recently, communication-avoiding methods have been developed to reduce the
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249 communication overheads in Krylov subspace iterative solvers. On modern computer
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250 architectures, communications between processors are much slower than
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251 floating-point arithmetic operations on a given
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252 processor. Communication-avoiding techniques reduce either communications
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253 between processors or data movements between levels of the memory hierarchy, by
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254 reformulating the communication-bound kernels (more frequently SpMV kernels) and
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255 the orthogonalization operations within the Krylov iterative solver. Different
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256 works have studied the communication-avoiding techniques for the GMRES method,
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257 so-called CA-GMRES, on multicore processors and multi-GPU
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258 machines~\cite{Mohiyuddin2009,Hoemmen2010,Yamazaki2014}.
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260 Compared to all these works and to all the other works on Krylov iterative
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261 methods, the originality of our work is to build a second iteration over a
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262 Krylov iterative method and to minimize the residuals with a least-squares
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263 method after a given number of outer iterations.
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272 \section{TSIRM: Two-stage iteration with least-squares residuals minimization algorithm}
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274 A two-stage algorithm is proposed to solve large sparse linear systems of the
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275 form $Ax=b$, where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is a sparse and square
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276 nonsingular matrix, $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the solution vector, and
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277 $b\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the right-hand side. As explained previously, the
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278 algorithm is implemented as an inner-outer iteration solver based on iterative
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279 Krylov methods. The main key-points of the proposed solver are given in
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280 Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}. It can be summarized as follows: the inner solver is a
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281 Krylov based one. In order to accelerate its convergence, the outer solver
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282 periodically applies a least-squares minimization on the residuals computed by
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285 At each outer iteration, the sparse linear system $Ax=b$ is partially solved
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286 using only $m$ iterations of an iterative method, this latter being initialized
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287 with the last obtained approximation. The GMRES method~\cite{Saad86}, or any of
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288 its variants, can potentially be used as inner solver. The current approximation
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289 of the Krylov method is then stored inside a $n \times s$ matrix $S$, which is
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290 composed by the $s$ last solutions that have been computed during the inner
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291 iterations phase. In the remainder, the $i$-th column vector of $S$ will be
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294 At each $s$ iterations, another kind of minimization step is applied in order to
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295 compute a new solution $x$. For that, the previous residuals of $Ax=b$ are
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296 computed by the inner iterations with $(b-AS)$. The minimization of the
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297 residuals is obtained by
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299 \underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2
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302 with $R=AS$. The new solution $x$ is then computed with $x=S\alpha$.
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305 In practice, $R$ is a dense rectangular matrix belonging in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times
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306 s}$, with $s\ll n$. In order to minimize~\eqref{eq:01}, a least-squares
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307 method such as CGLS ~\cite{Hestenes52} or LSQR~\cite{Paige82} is used. Remark
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308 that these methods are more appropriate than a single direct method in a
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309 parallel context. CGLS has recently been used to improve the performance of multisplitting algorithms \cite{cz15:ij}.
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313 \begin{algorithm}[t]
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315 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
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316 \Input $A$ (sparse matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
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317 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
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318 \State Set the initial guess $x_0$
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319 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence ($error<\epsilon_{tsirm}$)} \label{algo:conv}
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320 \State $[x_k,error]=Solve(A,b,x_{k-1},max\_iter_{kryl})$ \label{algo:solve}
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321 \State $S_{k \mod s}=x_k$ \label{algo:store} \Comment{update column ($k \mod s$) of $S$}
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322 \If {$k \mod s=0$ {\bf and} $error>\epsilon_{kryl}$}
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323 \State $R=AS$ \Comment{compute dense matrix} \label{algo:matrix_mul}
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324 \State $\alpha=Least\_Squares(R,b,max\_iter_{ls})$ \label{algo:}
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325 \State $x_k=S\alpha$ \Comment{compute new solution}
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332 Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} summarizes the principle of the proposed method. The
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333 outer iteration is inside the \emph{for} loop. Line~\ref{algo:solve}, the Krylov
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334 method is called for a maximum of $max\_iter_{kryl}$ iterations. In practice,
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335 we suggest to set this parameter equal to the restart number in the GMRES-like
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336 method. Moreover, a tolerance threshold must be specified for the solver. In
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337 practice, this threshold must be much smaller than the convergence threshold of
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338 the TSIRM algorithm (\emph{i.e.}, $\epsilon_{tsirm}$). We also consider that
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339 after the call of the $Solve$ function, we obtain the vector $x_k$ and the
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340 $error$, which is defined by $||Ax_k-b||_2$.
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342 Line~\ref{algo:store}, $S_{k \mod s}=x_k$ consists in copying the solution
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343 $x_k$ into the column $k \mod s$ of $S$. After the minimization, the matrix
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344 $S$ is reused with the new values of the residuals. To solve the minimization
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345 problem, an iterative method is used. Two parameters are required for that:
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346 the maximum number of iterations ($max\_iter_{ls}$) and the threshold to stop
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347 the method ($\epsilon_{ls}$).
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349 Let us summarize the most important parameters of TSIRM:
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351 \item $\epsilon_{tsirm}$: the threshold that stops the TSIRM method;
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352 \item $max\_iter_{kryl}$: the maximum number of iterations for the Krylov method;
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353 \item $s$: the number of outer iterations before applying the minimization step;
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354 \item $max\_iter_{ls}$: the maximum number of iterations for the iterative least-squares method;
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355 \item $\epsilon_{ls}$: the threshold used to stop the least-squares method.
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359 The parallelization of TSIRM relies on the parallelization of all its
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360 parts. More precisely, except the least-squares step, all the other parts are
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361 obvious to achieve out in parallel. In order to develop a parallel version of
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362 our code, we have chosen to use PETSc~\cite{petsc-web-page}. In
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363 line~\ref{algo:matrix_mul}, the matrix-matrix multiplication is implemented and
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364 efficient since the matrix $A$ is sparse and the matrix $S$ contains few columns
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365 in practice. As explained previously, at least two methods seem to be
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366 interesting to solve the least-squares minimization, the CGLS and the LSQR
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369 In Algorithm~\ref{algo:02} we remind the CGLS algorithm. The LSQR method follows
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370 more or less the same principle but it takes more place, so we briefly explain
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371 the parallelization of CGLS which is similar to LSQR.
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373 \begin{algorithm}[t]
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375 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
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376 \Input $A$ (matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
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377 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
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378 \State Let $x_0$ be an initial approximation
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379 \State $r_0=b-Ax_0$
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380 \State $p_1=A^Tr_0$
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382 \State $\gamma=||s_0||^2_2$
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383 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence ($\gamma<\epsilon_{ls}$)} \label{algo2:conv}
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385 \State $\alpha_k=\gamma/||q_k||^2_2$
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386 \State $x_k=x_{k-1}+\alpha_kp_k$
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387 \State $r_k=r_{k-1}-\alpha_kq_k$
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388 \State $s_k=A^Tr_k$
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389 \State $\gamma_{old}=\gamma$
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390 \State $\gamma=||s_k||^2_2$
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391 \State $\beta_k=\gamma/\gamma_{old}$
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392 \State $p_{k+1}=s_k+\beta_kp_k$
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399 In each iteration of CGLS, there are two matrix-vector multiplications and some
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400 classical operations: dot product, norm, multiplication, and addition on
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401 vectors. All these operations are easy to implement in PETSc or similar
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402 environment. It should be noticed that LSQR follows the same principle, it is a
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403 little bit longer but it performs more or less the same operations.
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409 \section{Convergence results}
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415 We suppose in this section that GMRES($m$) is used as solver in the TSIRM algorithm applied on a complex matrix $A$.
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416 Let us denote $A^\ast$ the conjugate transpose of $A$, and let $\mathfrak{R}(A)=\dfrac{1}{2} \left( A + A^\ast\right)$, $\mathfrak{I}(A)=\dfrac{1}{2i} \left( A - A^\ast\right)$.
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418 \subsection{$\mathfrak{R}(A)$ is positive}
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420 \begin{proposition}
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421 \label{positiveConvergent}
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422 If $\mathfrak{R}(A)$ is positive, then the TSIRM algorithm is convergent.
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427 If $\mathfrak{R}(A)$ is positive, then even if $A$ is complex, it is possible to state that
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428 the GMRES algorithm is convergent, see, \emph{e.g.},~\cite{Huang89}. In particular, its residual norm
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431 At each iterate of the TSIRM algorithm, either a GMRES iteration is realized or a least square
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432 resolution (to find the minimum of $||b-Ax||_2$ is achieved on the linear span of the iterated approximation vectors
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433 $span\left(x_{k-s+1}, x_{k-s}+2, \hdots, x_{k} \right)$
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434 of the last GMRES stage,
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436 $\operatorname{span}(S) = \left \{ {\sum_{i=1}^k \lambda_i v_i \Big| k \in \mathbb{N}, v_i \in S, \lambda _i \in \mathbb{R}} \right \}$.
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438 Obviously, the minimum of $||b-Ax||_2$ on the set $span\left(x_{k-s+1}, x_{k-s}+2, \hdots, x_{k} \right)$
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439 is lower than or equal to $||b-Ax_k||_2$, which is the last obtained GMRES-residual norm. So we can
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440 conclude that the intermediate stage of least square resolution inserted into the GMRES algorithm
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441 does not break the decreasing to zero of the GMRES-residual norm.
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443 In other words, the TSIRM algorithm is convergent.
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447 Regarding the convergence speed, we can claim that,
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448 \begin{proposition}
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450 If $A$ is a positive matrix, then the convergence of the
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451 TSIRM algorithm is linear.
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453 Furthermore, let $r_k$ be the $k$-th residue of TSIRM, then
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454 we have the following boundaries:
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456 ||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0|| ,
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458 where $M$ is the symmetric part of $A$, $\alpha = \lambda_{min}(M)^2$ and $\beta = \lambda_{max}(A^T A)$.
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462 Let us first recall that, when $A$ is a positive real matrix with symmetric part $M$, then the residual norm provided at the $m$-th step of GMRES satisfies:
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464 ||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_0|| ,
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466 where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are defined as in Proposition~\ref{prop:saad}.
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467 These well-known results can be found, \emph{e.g.}, in~\cite{Saad86}.
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469 We will now prove by a mathematical induction that, for each $k \in \mathbb{N}^\ast$,
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470 $||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}} ||r_0||$ when $A$ is positive.
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472 The base case is obvious, as for $k=1$, the TSIRM algorithm simply consists in applying GMRES($m$) once, leading to a new residual $r_1$ that follows the inductive hypothesis due to the results recalled above.
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474 Suppose now that the claim holds for all $m=1, 2, \hdots, k-1$, that is, $\forall m \in \{1,2,\hdots, k-1\}$, $||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0||$.
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475 We will show that the statement holds too for $r_k$. Two situations can occur:
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477 \item If $k \not\equiv 0 ~(\textrm{mod}\ m)$, then the TSIRM algorithm consists in executing GMRES once. In that case and by using the inductive hypothesis, we obtain either $||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_{k-1}||\leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0||$.
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478 \item Else, the TSIRM algorithm consists in two stages: a first GMRES($m$) execution leads to a temporary $x_k$ whose residue satisfies:
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479 $$||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_{k-1}||\leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0||$$
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480 and a least squares resolution.
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481 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,\\
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482 $\min_{\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^s} ||b-R\alpha ||_2 = \min_{\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^s} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2$
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485 & = \min_{x \in span\left(S_{k-s+1}, S_{k-s+2}, \hdots, S_{k} \right)} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2\\
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486 & = \min_{x \in span\left(x_{k-s+1}, x_{k-s}+2, \hdots, x_{k} \right)} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2\\
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487 & \leqslant \min_{x \in span\left( x_{k} \right)} ||b-Ax ||_2\\
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488 & \leqslant \min_{\lambda \in \mathbb{R}} ||b-\lambda Ax_{k} ||_2\\
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489 & \leqslant ||b-Ax_{k}||_2\\
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491 & \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{km}{2}} ||r_0||, \\
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494 which concludes the induction and the proof.
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499 \subsection{$\mathfrak{R}(A)$ is positive definite}
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501 \begin{proposition}
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503 Convergence of the TSIRM algorithm is at least linear when $\mathfrak{R}(A)$ is
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504 positive definite. Furthermore, the rate of convergence is lower
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505 than $$\min\left( \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}};
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506 \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}}\right) ,$$
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507 where ${\lambda_{min}^{X}}$ (resp. ${\lambda_{max}^{X}}$) is the lowest (resp. largest) eigenvalue of matrix $X$.
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512 If $\mathfrak{R}(A)$ is positive definite, then it is positive, and so the TSIRM algorithm
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513 is convergent due to Proposition~\ref{positiveConvergent}.
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515 Furthermore, as stated in the proof of Proposition~\ref{positiveConvergent}, the GMRES residue is under control
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516 when $\mathfrak{R}(A)$ is positive. More precisely, it has been proven in the literature that the residual norm
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517 provided at the $m$-th step of GMRES satisfies:
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519 \item $||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}} ||r_0||$, see, \emph{e.g.},~\cite{citeulike:2951999},
\r
520 \item $||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}} ||r_0||$, see~\cite{ANU:137201},
\r
522 which proves the convergence of GMRES($m$) for all $m$ under such assumptions regarding $A$.
\r
524 We will now prove by a mathematical induction, and following the same canvas than in the proof of Prop.~\ref{positiveConvergent}, that: for each $k \in \mathbb{N}^\ast$, the TSIRM-residual norm satisfies
\r
528 ||r_k|| \leqslant & \min\left( \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}}; \right. \\
\r
529 & \left. \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}}\right) ||r_0||
\r
532 when $A$ is positive definite.
\r
535 The base case is obvious, as for $k=1$, the TSIRM algorithm simply consists in applying GMRES($m$) once, leading to a new residual $r_1$ that follows the inductive hypothesis due to the results recalled in the items listed above.
\r
537 Suppose now that the claim holds for all $u=1, 2, \hdots, k-1$, that is, $\forall u \in \{1,2,\hdots, k-1\}$, $||r_u|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{mu}{2}} ||r_0||$.
\r
538 We will show that the statement holds too for $r_k$. Two situations can occur:
\r
540 \item If $k \not\equiv 0 ~(\textrm{mod}\ m)$, then the TSIRM algorithm consists in executing GMRES once. In that case and by using the inductive hypothesis, we obtain
\r
541 $||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} \leqslant \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}} ||r_0||$, due to~\cite{citeulike:2951999}. Furthermore, we have too that: $||r_k|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_{k-1}|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}} ||r_0||$, as proven in~\cite{ANU:137201} and by using the inductive hypothesis. So we can conclude that
\r
542 $$\begin{array}{ll}||r_k|| \leqslant & \min\left( \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}}; \right. \\
\r
543 & \left. \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}}\right) \times ||r_0||
\r
546 \item Else, the TSIRM algorithm consists in two stages: a first GMRES($m$) execution leads to a temporary $x_k$ whose residue satisfies, following the previous item:
\r
547 $$\begin{array}{ll}
\r
548 ||r_k|| & \leqslant \min\left( \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}}; \right. \\
\r
549 & \left. \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}}\right) \times ||r_{k-1}||\\
\r
550 & \leqslant \min\left( \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}}; \right. \\
\r
551 & \left. \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}}\right) \times ||r_0||
\r
553 and the least squares resolution of $\min_{\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^s} ||b-R\alpha ||_2$.
\r
555 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 $S$, as defined previously. So,\\
\r
556 $\min_{\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^s} ||b-R\alpha ||_2 = \min_{\alpha \in \mathbb{R}^s} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2$
\r
559 & = \min_{x \in span\left(S_{k-s+1}, S_{k-s+2}, \hdots, S_{k} \right)} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2\\
\r
560 & = \min_{x \in span\left(x_{k-s+1}, x_{k-s}+2, \hdots, x_{k} \right)} ||b-AS\alpha ||_2\\
\r
561 & \leqslant \min_{x \in span\left( x_{k} \right)} ||b-Ax ||_2\\
\r
562 & \leqslant \min_{\lambda \in \mathbb{R}} ||b-\lambda Ax_{k} ||_2\\
\r
563 & \leqslant ||b-Ax_{k}||_2\\
\r
565 & \leqslant \min\left( \left(1- \dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{ \lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} \lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)} + {\lambda_{max}^{\mathfrak{I}(A)}}^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}}; \right. \\
\r
566 & \left. \left(1-\dfrac{{\lambda_{min}^{\mathfrak{R}(A)}}^2}{||A||^2}\right)^{\frac{mk}{2}}\right) \times ||r_0||
\r
569 due to the inductive hypothesis.
\r
570 So the statement of Equation~\eqref{induc} holds too for the $k$-th iterate, which concludes the induction and the proof.
\r
573 \subsection{A last linear convergence}
\r
576 \begin{proposition}
\r
577 Let us define the field of values of $A$ by
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578 $$\mathfrak{F}(A) = \left\{ \dfrac{x^\ast A x}{x^\ast x}, x \in \mathds{C}^n\setminus \{0\} \right\} .$$
\r
580 Then if $\mathfrak{F}(A)$ is included into a closed ball of radius $r$ and center $c$,
\r
581 which does not contain the origin, then the convergence of the TSIRM algorithm is at least linear.
\r
583 More precisely, the rate of convergence is lower
\r
584 than $2 \dfrac{r}{|c|}$.
\r
588 This inequality comes from the fact that, in the conditions of the proposition, the GMRES residue
\r
589 satisfies the inequality: $|r_k| \leqslant 2 \dfrac{r}{|c|}^k |r_0|$. An induction inspired by
\r
590 the proofs of Propositions~\ref{prop:saad} and~\ref{prop2} can transfer this inequality to the
\r
596 Remark that a similar proposition can be formulated at each time
\r
597 the given solver satisfies an inequality of the form $||r_n|| \leqslant \mu^n ||r_0||$,
\r
598 with $|\mu|<1$. Furthermore, it is \emph{a priori} possible in some particular cases
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600 that the proposed TSIRM converges while the GMRES($m$) does not.
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605 %%%*********************************************************
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606 %%%*********************************************************
\r
607 \section{Experiments using PETSc}
\r
611 In this section four kinds of experiments have been performed. First, some experiments on real matrices issued from the sparse matrix florida have been achieved out. Second, some experiments in parallel with some linear problems are reported and analyzed. Third, some experiments in parallèle with som nonlinear problems are illustrated. Finally some parameters of TSIRM are studied in order to understand their influences.
\r
614 \subsection{Real matrices}
\r
618 In order to see the behavior of our approach when considering only one processor,
\r
619 a first comparison with GMRES or FGMRES and the new algorithm detailed
\r
620 previously has been experimented. Matrices that have been used with their
\r
621 characteristics (names, fields, rows, and nonzero coefficients) are detailed in
\r
622 Table~\ref{tab:01}. These latter, which are real-world applications matrices,
\r
623 have been extracted from the Davis collection, University of
\r
624 Florida~\cite{Dav97}.
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626 \begin{table*}[htbp]
\r
628 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|}
\r
630 Matrix name & Field &\# Rows & \# Nonzeros \\\hline \hline
\r
631 crashbasis & Optimization & 160,000 & 1,750,416 \\
\r
632 parabolic\_fem & Comput. fluid dynamics & 525,825 & 2,100,225 \\
\r
633 epb3 & Thermal problem & 84,617 & 463,625 \\
\r
634 atmosmodj & Comput. fluid dynamics & 1,270,432 & 8,814,880 \\
\r
635 bfwa398 & Electromagnetics pb & 398 & 3,678 \\
\r
636 torso3 & 2D/3D problem & 259,156 & 4,429,042 \\
\r
640 \caption{Main characteristics of the sparse matrices chosen from the Davis collection}
\r
644 Chosen parameters are detailed below.
\r
645 We have stopped the GMRES every 30
\r
646 iterations (\emph{i.e.}, $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$), which is the default
\r
647 setting of GMRES restart parameter. The parameter $s$ has been set to 8. CGLS
\r
648 minimizes the least-squares problem with parameters
\r
649 $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$ and $max\_iter_{ls}=20$. The external precision is set to
\r
650 $\epsilon_{tsirm}=1e-10$. These experiments have been performed on an Intel(R)
\r
651 Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz with the 3.5.1 version of PETSc.
\r
654 Experiments comparing
\r
655 a GMRES variant with TSIRM in the resolution of linear systems are given in Table~\ref{tab:02}.
\r
656 The second column describes whether GMRES or FGMRES has been used for linear systems solving.
\r
657 Different preconditioners have been used according to the matrices. With TSIRM, the same
\r
658 solver and the same preconditioner are used. This table shows that TSIRM can
\r
659 drastically reduce the number of iterations needed to reach the convergence, when the
\r
660 number of iterations for the normal GMRES is more or less greater than 500. In
\r
661 fact this also depends on two parameters: the number of iterations before stopping GMRES
\r
662 and the number of iterations to perform the minimization.
\r
665 \begin{table*}[htbp]
\r
667 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|r|}
\r
670 \multirow{2}{*}{Matrix name} & Solver / & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} \\
\r
672 & precond & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. \\\hline \hline
\r
674 crashbasis & gmres / none & 15.65 & 518 & 14.12 & 450 \\
\r
675 parabolic\_fem & gmres / ilu & 1009.94 & 7573 & 401.52 & 2970 \\
\r
676 epb3 & fgmres / sor & 8.67 & 600 & 8.21 & 540 \\
\r
677 atmosmodj & fgmres / sor & 104.23 & 451 & 88.97 & 366 \\
\r
678 bfwa398 & gmres / none & 1.42 & 9612 & 0.28 & 1650 \\
\r
679 torso3 & fgmres / sor & 37.70 & 565 & 34.97 & 510 \\
\r
683 \caption{Comparison between sequential standalone (F)GMRES and TSIRM with (F)GMRES (time in seconds).}
\r
690 \subsection{Parallel linear problems}
\r
693 In order to perform larger experiments, we have tested some example applications
\r
694 of PETSc. These applications are available in the \emph{ksp} part, which is
\r
695 suited for scalable linear equations solvers:
\r
697 \item ex15 is an example that solves in parallel an operator using a finite
\r
698 difference scheme. The diagonal is equal to 4 and 4 extra-diagonals
\r
699 representing the neighbors in each directions are equal to -1. This example is
\r
700 used in many physical phenomena, for example, heat and fluid flow, wave
\r
702 \item ex54 is another example based on a 2D problem discretized with quadrilateral
\r
703 finite elements. In this example, the user can define the scaling of material
\r
704 coefficient in embedded circle called $\alpha$.
\r
706 For more technical details on these applications, interested readers are invited
\r
707 to read the codes available in the PETSc sources. These problems have been
\r
708 chosen because they are scalable with many cores.
\r
710 In the following, larger experiments are described on two large scale
\r
711 architectures: Curie and Juqueen. Both these architectures are supercomputers
\r
712 respectively composed of 80,640 cores for Curie and 458,752 cores for
\r
713 Juqueen. Those machines are respectively hosted by GENCI in France and Jülich
\r
714 Supercomputing Center in Germany. They belong with other similar architectures
\r
715 to the PRACE initiative (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), which
\r
716 aims at proposing high performance supercomputing architecture to enhance
\r
717 research in Europe. The Curie architecture is composed of Intel E5-2680
\r
718 processors at 2.7 GHz with 2Gb memory by core. The Juqueen architecture,
\r
720 composed by IBM PowerPC A2 at 1.6 GHz with 1Gb memory per core. Both those
\r
721 architectures are equipped with a dedicated high speed network.
\r
724 In many situations, using preconditioners is essential in order to find the
\r
725 solution of a linear system. There are many preconditioners available in PETSc.
\r
726 However, for parallel applications, all the preconditioners based on matrix factorization
\r
727 are not available. In our experiments, we have tested different kinds of
\r
728 preconditioners, but as it is not the subject of this paper, we will not
\r
729 present results with many preconditioners. In practice, we have chosen to use a
\r
730 multigrid (MG) and successive over-relaxation (SOR). For further details on the
\r
731 preconditioners in PETSc, readers are referred to~\cite{petsc-web-page}.
\r
735 \begin{table*}[htbp]
\r
737 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
\r
740 nb. cores & precond & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain \\
\r
742 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
\r
743 2,048 & MG & 403.49 & 18,210 & 73.89 & 3,060 & 77.84 & 3,270 & 5.46 \\
\r
744 2,048 & SOR & 745.37 & 57,060 & 87.31 & 6,150 & 104.21 & 7,230 & 8.53 \\
\r
745 4,096 & MG & 562.25 & 25,170 & 97.23 & 3,990 & 89.71 & 3,630 & 6.27 \\
\r
746 4,096 & SOR & 912.12 & 70,194 & 145.57 & 9,750 & 168.97 & 10,980 & 6.26 \\
\r
747 8,192 & MG & 917.02 & 40,290 & 148.81 & 5,730 & 143.03 & 5,280 & 6.41 \\
\r
748 8,192 & SOR & 1,404.53 & 106,530 & 212.55 & 12,990 & 180.97 & 10,470 & 7.76 \\
\r
749 16,384 & MG & 1,430.56 & 63,930 & 237.17 & 8,310 & 244.26 & 7,950 & 6.03 \\
\r
750 16,384 & SOR & 2,852.14 & 216,240 & 418.46 & 21,690 & 505.26 & 23,970 & 6.82 \\
\r
754 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM with FGMRES for example ex15 of PETSc/KSP with two preconditioners (MG and SOR) having 25,000 components per core on Juqueen ($\epsilon_{tsirm}=1e-3$, $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$, $s=12$, $max\_iter_{ls}=15$, $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$), time is expressed in seconds.}
\r
759 Table~\ref{tab:03} shows the execution times and the number of iterations of
\r
760 example ex15 of PETSc on the Juqueen architecture. Different numbers of cores
\r
761 are studied ranging from 2,048 up-to 16,383 with the two preconditioners {\it
\r
762 MG} and {\it SOR}. For those experiments, the number of components (or
\r
763 unknowns of the problems) per core is fixed at 25,000, also called weak
\r
764 scaling. This number can seem relatively small. In fact, for some applications
\r
765 that need a lot of memory, the number of components per processor requires
\r
766 sometimes to be small. Other parameters for this application are described in
\r
767 the legend of this table.
\r
771 In Table~\ref{tab:03}, we can notice that TSIRM is always faster than
\r
772 FGMRES. The last column shows the ratio between FGMRES and the best version of
\r
773 TSIRM according to the minimization procedure: CGLS or LSQR. Even if we have
\r
774 computed the worst case between CGLS and LSQR, it is clear that TSIRM is always
\r
775 faster than FGMRES. For this example, the multigrid preconditioner is faster
\r
776 than SOR. The gain between TSIRM and FGMRES is more or less similar for the two
\r
777 preconditioners. Looking at the number of iterations to reach the convergence,
\r
778 it is obvious that TSIRM allows the reduction of the number of iterations. It
\r
779 should be noticed that for TSIRM, in those experiments, only the iterations of
\r
780 the Krylov solver are taken into account. Iterations of CGLS or LSQR were not
\r
781 recorded but they are time-consuming. In general, each $max\_iter_{kryl}*s$
\r
782 iterations which corresponds to 30*12, there are $max\_iter_{ls}$ iterations for
\r
783 the least-squares method which corresponds to 15.
\r
785 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
787 \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex15_juqueen}
\r
788 \caption{Number of iterations per second with ex15 and the same parameters as in Table~\ref{tab:03} (weak scaling)}
\r
793 In Figure~\ref{fig:01}, the number of iterations per second corresponding to
\r
794 Table~\ref{tab:03} is displayed. It can be noticed that the number of
\r
795 iterations per second of FMGRES is constant whereas it decreases with TSIRM with
\r
796 both preconditioners. This can be explained by the fact that when the number of
\r
797 cores increases, the time for the least-squares minimization step also increases
\r
798 but, generally, when the number of cores increases, the number of iterations to
\r
799 reach the threshold also increases, and, in that case, TSIRM is more efficient
\r
800 to reduce the number of iterations. So, the overall benefit of using TSIRM is
\r
808 \begin{table*}[htbp]
\r
810 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
\r
813 nb. cores & $\epsilon_{tsirm}$ & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain \\
\r
815 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
\r
816 2,048 & 8e-5 & 108.88 & 16,560 & 23.06 & 3,630 & 22.79 & 3,630 & 4.77 \\
\r
817 2,048 & 6e-5 & 194.01 & 30,270 & 35.50 & 5,430 & 27.74 & 4,350 & 6.99 \\
\r
818 4,096 & 7e-5 & 160.59 & 22,530 & 35.15 & 5,130 & 29.21 & 4,350 & 5.49 \\
\r
819 4,096 & 6e-5 & 249.27 & 35,520 & 52.13 & 7,950 & 39.24 & 5,790 & 6.35 \\
\r
820 8,192 & 6e-5 & 149.54 & 17,280 & 28.68 & 3,810 & 29.05 & 3,990 & 5.21 \\
\r
821 8,192 & 5e-5 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 \\
\r
822 16,384 & 4e-5 & 718.61 & 86,400 & 98.98 & 10,830 & 131.86 & 14,790 & 7.26 \\
\r
826 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM with FGMRES algorithms for ex54 of PETSc/KSP (both with the MG preconditioner) with 25,000 components per core on Curie ($max\_iter_{kryl}=30$, $s=12$, $max\_iter_{ls}=15$, $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$), time is expressed in seconds.}
\r
832 In Table~\ref{tab:04}, some experiments with example ex54 on the Curie
\r
833 architecture are reported. For this application, we fixed $\alpha=0.6$. As it
\r
834 can be seen in that table, the size of the problem has a strong influence on the
\r
835 number of iterations to reach the convergence. That is why we have preferred to
\r
836 change the threshold. If we set it to $1e-3$ as with the previous application,
\r
837 only one iteration is necessary to reach the convergence. So Table~\ref{tab:04}
\r
838 shows the results of different executions with different number of cores and
\r
839 different thresholds. As with the previous example, we can observe that TSIRM is
\r
840 faster than FGMRES. The ratio greatly depends on the number of iterations for
\r
841 FMGRES to reach the threshold. The greater the number of iterations to reach the
\r
842 convergence is, the better the ratio between our algorithm and FMGRES is. This
\r
843 experiment is also a weak scaling with approximately $25,000$ components per
\r
844 core. It can also be observed that the difference between CGLS and LSQR is not
\r
845 significant. Both can be good but it seems not possible to know in advance which
\r
846 one will be the best.
\r
848 Table~\ref{tab:05} shows a strong scaling experiment with example ex54 on the
\r
849 Curie architecture. So, in this case, the number of unknowns is fixed at
\r
850 $204,919,225$ and the number of cores ranges from $512$ to $8192$ with the power
\r
851 of two. The threshold is fixed at $5e-5$ and only the $mg$ preconditioner has
\r
852 been tested. Here again we can see that TSIRM is faster than FGMRES. The
\r
853 efficiency of each algorithm is reported. It can be noticed that the efficiency
\r
854 of FGMRES is better than the TSIRM one except with $8,192$ cores and that its
\r
855 efficiency is greater than one whereas the efficiency of TSIRM is lower than
\r
856 one. Nevertheless, the ratio of TSIRM with any version of the least-squares
\r
857 method is always faster. With $8,192$ cores when the number of iterations is
\r
858 far more important for FGMRES, we can see that it is only slightly more
\r
859 important for TSIRM.
\r
861 In Figure~\ref{fig:02} we report the number of iterations per second for the
\r
862 experiments reported in Table~\ref{tab:05}. This figure highlights that the
\r
863 number of iterations per second is more or less the same for FGMRES and TSIRM
\r
864 with a little advantage for FGMRES. It can be explained by the fact that, as we
\r
865 have previously explained, the iterations of the least-squares steps are not
\r
866 taken into account with TSIRM.
\r
868 \begin{table*}[htbp]
\r
870 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
\r
873 nb. cores & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{efficiency} \\
\r
874 \cline{2-7} \cline{9-11}
\r
875 & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & & FGMRES & TS CGLS & TS LSQR\\\hline \hline
\r
876 512 & 3,969.69 & 33,120 & 709.57 & 5,790 & 622.76 & 5,070 & 6.37 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
\r
877 1024 & 1,530.06 & 25,860 & 290.95 & 4,830 & 307.71 & 5,070 & 5.25 & 1.30 & 1.21 & 1.01 \\
\r
878 2048 & 919.62 & 31,470 & 237.52 & 8,040 & 194.22 & 6,510 & 4.73 & 1.08 & .75 & .80\\
\r
879 4096 & 405.60 & 28,380 & 111.67 & 7,590 & 91.72 & 6,510 & 4.42 & 1.22 & .79 & .84 \\
\r
880 8192 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 & .32 & .58 & .56 \\
\r
885 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM for ex54 of PETSc/KSP (both with the MG preconditioner) with 204,919,225 components on Curie with different number of cores ($\epsilon_{tsirm}=5e-5$, $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$, $s=12$, $max\_iter_{ls}=15$, $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$), time is expressed in seconds.}
\r
890 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
892 \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex54_curie}
\r
893 \caption{Number of iterations per second with ex54 and the same parameters as in Table~\ref{tab:05} (strong scaling)}
\r
898 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
900 \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex45_curie}
\r
901 \caption{Number of iterations per second with ex45 and the same parameters as in Table~\ref{tab:06} (weak scaling)}
\r
908 {\bf example ex45/ksp à décrire et commenter en montrant que hypre est pourri avec cet exemple}
\r
910 \begin{table*}[htbp]
\r
912 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
\r
915 nb. cores & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES/ASM} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS/ASM} & gain& \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES/HYPRE} \\
\r
916 \cline{2-5} \cline{7-8}
\r
917 & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & & Time & \# Iter. \\\hline \hline
\r
918 512 & 5.54 & 685 & 2.5 & 570 & 2.21 & 128.9 & 9 \\
\r
919 2048 & 14.95 & 1,560 & 4.32 & 746 & 3.48 & 335.7 & 9 \\
\r
920 4096 & 25.13 & 2,369 & 5.61 & 859 & 4.48 & >1000 & -- \\
\r
921 8192 & 44.35 & 3,197 & 7.6 & 1083 & 5.84 & >1000 & -- \\
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926 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM for ex45 of PETSc/KSP with two preconditioner (ASM and HYPRE) having 5,000 components per core on Curie ($\epsilon_{tsirm}=1e-10$, $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$, $s=12$, $max\_iter_{ls}=15$,$\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$), time is expressed in seconds.}
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932 \subsection{Parallel nonlinear problems}
\r
934 With PETSc, linear solvers are used inside nonlinear solvers. The SNES
\r
935 (Scalable Nonlinear Equations Solvers) module in PETSc implements easy to use
\r
936 methods, like Newton-type, quasi-Newton or full approximation scheme (FAS)
\r
937 multigrid to solve systems of nonlinears equations. As SNES is based on the
\r
938 Krylov methods of PETSc, it is interesting to investigate if the TSIRM method is
\r
939 also efficient and scalable with non linear problems. In PETSc, some examples
\r
940 are provided. An important criteria is the scalability of the initial code with
\r
941 classical solvers. Consequently, we have chosen two of these examples: ex14 and
\r
942 ex20. In ex14, the code solves the Bratu (SFI - solid fuel ignition) nonlinear
\r
943 partial difference equations in 3 dimension. In ex20, the code solves a 3
\r
944 dimension radiative transport test problem. For more details on these examples,
\r
945 interested readers are invited to see the code in the PETSc examples. For both
\r
946 these examples, a weak scaling case is chosen where processors have
\r
947 approximately a number of components equals to 100,000.
\r
949 In Table~\ref{tab:07} we report the result of our experiments for the example
\r
950 ex14 with the block Jacobi preconditioner. For TSIRM the CGLS algorithm is used
\r
951 to solve the minimization step. In this table, we can see that the number of
\r
952 iterations used by the linear solver is smaller with TSIRM compared with FGMRES.
\r
953 Consequently the execution times are smaller with TSIRM. The gain between TSIRM
\r
954 and FGMRES is around 6 and 7. The parameters of TSIRM are expressed in the
\r
955 caption of the table.
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957 \begin{table*}[htbp]
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959 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
\r
962 nb. cores & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES/BJAC} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS/BJAC} & gain \\
\r
964 & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
\r
965 1,024 & 159.52 & 11,584 & 26.34 & 1,563 & 6.06 \\
\r
966 2,048 & 226.24 & 16,459 & 37.23 & 2,248 & 6.08\\
\r
967 4,096 & 391.21 & 27,794 & 50.93 & 2,911 & 7.69\\
\r
968 8,192 & 543.23 & 37,770 & 79.21 & 4,324 & 6.86 \\
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973 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM for ex14 of PETSc/SNES with a Block Jacobi preconditioner having 100,000 components per core on Curie ($\epsilon_{tsirm}=1e-10$, $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$, $s=12$, $max\_iter_{ls}=15$, $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$), time is expressed in seconds.}
\r
978 In Table~\cite{tab:08}, the results of the experiments with the example ex20 are
\r
979 reported. The block Jacobi preconditioner has also been used and CGLS to solve
\r
980 the minimization step for TSIRM. For this example, we can observ that the number
\r
981 of iterations for FMGRES increase drastically when the number of cores
\r
982 increases. With TSIRM, we can see that the number of iterations is initially
\r
983 very small compared to the FGMRES ones and when the number of cores increase,
\r
984 the number of iterations increases slighther with TSIRM than with FGMRES. For
\r
985 this example, the gain between TSIRM and FGMRES ranges between 8 with 1,024
\r
986 cores to more than 16 with 8,192 cores.
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988 \begin{table*}[htbp]
\r
990 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
\r
993 nb. cores & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES/BJAC} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS/BJAC} & gain \\
\r
995 & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
\r
996 1,024 & 667.92 & 48,732 & 81.65 & 5,087 & 8.18 \\
\r
997 2,048 & 966.87 & 77,177 & 90.34 & 5,716 & 10.70\\
\r
998 4,096 & 1,742.31 & 124,411 & 119.21 & 6,905 & 14.61\\
\r
999 8,192 & 2,739.21 & 187,626 & 168.9 & 9,000 & 16.22\\
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1004 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM for ex20 of PETSc/SNES with a Block Jacobi preconditioner having 100,000 components per core on Curie ($\epsilon_{tsirm}=1e-10$, $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$, $s=12$, $max\_iter_{ls}=15$, $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$), time is expressed in seconds.}
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1016 \subsection{Influence of parameters for TSIRM}
\r
1017 In this section we present some experimental results in order to study the influence of some parameters on the TSIRM algorithm. We conducted experiments on $16$ cores to solve 3D problems of size $200,000$ components per core. We solved nonlinear problems token from examples of PETSc. We fixed some parameters of the TSIRM algorithm as follows: the nonlinear systems are solved with a precision of $10^{-8}$, block Jacobi preconditioner is used, the tolerance threshold $\epsilon_{tsirm}$ is $10^{-8}$ , the maximum number of iterations $max\_iter_{tsirm}$ is set to $10,000$ iterations, the FGMRES method is used as the inner solver with a tolerance threshold $\epsilon_{kryl}=10^{-10}$ and the least-squares problem is solved with a precision $\epsilon_{ls}=10^{-40}$ in the minimization process.
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1019 %time mpirun ../ex48 -da_grid_x 147 -da_grid_y 147 -da_grid_z 147 -snes_rtol 1.e-8 -snes_monitor -ksp_type tsirm -ksp_pc_type bjacobi -pc_type ksp -ksp_tsirm_tol 1e-8 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter 10000 -ksp_ksp_type fgmres -ksp_tsirm_max_inner_iter 30 -ksp_tsirm_inner_restarts 30 -ksp_tsirm_inner_tol 1e-10 -ksp_tsirm_cgls 0 -ksp_tsirm_tol_ls 1.e-40 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter_ls 15 -ksp_tsirm_size_ls 10
\r
1020 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1022 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_cgls_iter_total}
\r
1023 \caption{Number of total iterations using two different methods for the minimization: LSQR and CGLS.}
\r
1024 \label{fig:cgls-iter}
\r
1027 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1029 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_cgls_time}
\r
1030 \caption{Execution time in seconds using two different methods for the minimization: LSQR and CGLS.}
\r
1031 \label{fig:cgls-time}
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1034 %time mpirun ../ex35 -da_grid_x 147 -da_grid_y 147 -da_grid_z 147 -snes_rtol 1.e-8 -snes_monitor -ksp_type tsirm -ksp_pc_type bjacobi -pc_type ksp -ksp_tsirm_tol 1e-8 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter 10000 -ksp_ksp_type fgmres -ksp_tsirm_max_inner_iter 30 -ksp_tsirm_inner_restarts 38 -ksp_tsirm_inner_tol 1e-10 -ksp_tsirm_cgls 0 -ksp_tsirm_tol_ls 1.e-40 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter_ls 15 -ksp_tsirm_size_ls 10
\r
1035 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1037 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_inner_restarts_iter_total}
\r
1038 \caption{Number of total iterations with variation of restarts in the inner solver FGMRES.}
\r
1039 \label{fig:inner_restarts_iter_total}
\r
1042 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1044 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_inner_restarts_time}
\r
1045 \caption{Execution time in seconds with variation of restarts in the inner solver FGMRES.}
\r
1046 \label{fig:inner_restarts_time}
\r
1049 %time mpirun ../ex14 -da_grid_x 147 -da_grid_y 147 -da_grid_z 147 -snes_rtol 1.e-8 -snes_monitor -ksp_type tsirm -ksp_pc_type bjacobi -pc_type ksp -ksp_tsirm_tol 1e-8 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter 10000 -ksp_ksp_type fgmres -ksp_tsirm_max_inner_iter 1000 -ksp_tsirm_inner_restarts 30 -ksp_tsirm_inner_tol 1e-10 -ksp_tsirm_cgls 0 -ksp_tsirm_tol_ls 1.e-40 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter_ls 15 -ksp_tsirm_size_ls 10
\r
1050 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1052 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_max_inner_iter}
\r
1053 \caption{Number of total iterations with variation of number of inner iterations.}
\r
1054 \label{fig:max_inner_iter}
\r
1057 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1059 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_max_inner_time}
\r
1060 \caption{Execution time in seconds with variation of number of inner iterations.}
\r
1061 \label{fig:max_inner_time}
\r
1064 %time mpirun ../ex14 -da_grid_x 147 -da_grid_y 147 -da_grid_z 147 -snes_rtol 1.e-8 -snes_monitor -ksp_type tsirm -ksp_pc_type bjacobi -pc_type ksp -ksp_tsirm_tol 1e-8 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter 10000 -ksp_ksp_type fgmres -ksp_tsirm_max_inner_iter 30 -ksp_tsirm_inner_restarts 30 -ksp_tsirm_inner_tol 1e-10 -ksp_tsirm_cgls 0 -ksp_tsirm_tol_ls 1.e-40 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter_ls 5 -ksp_tsirm_size_ls 10
\r
1065 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1067 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_maxiter_ls_iter}
\r
1068 \caption{Number of total iterations with variation of number of iterations in the minimization process.}
\r
1069 \label{fig:maxiter_ls_iter}
\r
1072 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1074 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_maxiter_ls_time}
\r
1075 \caption{Execution time in seconds with variation of number of iterations in the minimization process.}
\r
1076 \label{fig:maxiter_ls_time}
\r
1079 %time mpirun ../ex14 -da_grid_x 147 -da_grid_y 147 -da_grid_z 147 -snes_rtol 1.e-8 -snes_monitor -ksp_type tsirm -ksp_pc_type bjacobi -pc_type ksp -ksp_tsirm_tol 1e-8 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter 10000 -ksp_ksp_type fgmres -ksp_tsirm_max_inner_iter 30 -ksp_tsirm_inner_restarts 30 -ksp_tsirm_inner_tol 1e-10 -ksp_tsirm_cgls 0 -ksp_tsirm_tol_ls 1.e-40 -ksp_tsirm_maxiter_ls 15 -ksp_tsirm_size_ls 2
\r
1080 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1082 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_size_ls_iter}
\r
1083 \caption{Number of total iterations with variation of the size of the least-squares problem in the minimization process.}
\r
1084 \label{fig:size_ls_iter}
\r
1087 \begin{figure}[htbp]
\r
1089 \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=0.5\textwidth]{ksp_tsirm_size_ls_time}
\r
1090 \caption{Execution time in seconds with variation of the size of the least-squares problem in the minimization process.}
\r
1091 \label{fig:size_ls_time}
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1100 \subsection{Experiments conclusions }
\r
1104 Concerning the experiments some other remarks are interesting.
\r
1106 \item We have tested other examples of PETSc/KSP (ex29, ex45, ex49). For all these
\r
1107 examples, we have also obtained similar gains between GMRES and TSIRM but
\r
1108 those examples are not scalable with many cores. In general, we had some
\r
1109 problems with more than $4,096$ cores.
\r
1110 \item We have tested many iterative solvers available in PETSc. In fact, it is
\r
1111 possible to use most of them with TSIRM. From our point of view, the condition
\r
1112 to use a solver inside TSIRM is that the solver must have a restart
\r
1113 feature. More precisely, the solver must support to be stopped and restarted
\r
1114 without decreasing its convergence. That is why with GMRES we stop it when it
\r
1115 is naturally restarted (\emph{i.e.} with $m$ the restart parameter). The
\r
1116 Conjugate Gradient (CG) and all its variants do not have ``restarted'' version
\r
1117 in PETSc, so they are not efficient. They will converge with TSIRM but not
\r
1118 quickly because if we compare a normal CG with a CG which is stopped and
\r
1119 restarted every 16 iterations (for example), the normal CG will be far more
\r
1120 efficient. Some restarted CG or CG variant versions exist and may be
\r
1121 interesting to study in future works.
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1127 %%%*********************************************************
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1128 %%%*********************************************************
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1129 \section{Conclusion}
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1131 %The conclusion goes here. this is more of the conclusion
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1132 %%%*********************************************************
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1133 %%%*********************************************************
\r
1136 In this paper a new two-stage algorithm TSIRM has been described. This method allows us to improve the convergence of Krylov iterative methods. It is based
\r
1137 on a least-squares minimization step which uses the Krylov residuals.
\r
1140 We have implemented our code in PETSc in order to show that it is efficient and scalable. Some experiments with classical examples of PETSc for linear and nonlinear problems have been performed. We observed that TSIRM outperforms GMRES variants when the number of iterations is large. TSIRM is also scalable since we made some experiments with up to 16,394 cores.
\r
1142 We also observed that TSIRM is efficient with different preconditioners. The hypre preconditioner that is globally very efficient for many problems is also very time consuming. Consequently, sometimes using a less performent preconditioners may be a better solution. In that case, TSIRM is also more efficient than traditional Krylov methods.
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1144 {\bf A CHECKER !!}
\r
1145 The influence of some important parameters of TSIRM have been studied. It can be noticed that they have a strong influence on the convergence speed
\r
1147 In future works, we plan to study other problems coming from different research areas. Other efficient Krylov optimisation methods as communication avoiding technique may be interesting to be investigated
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1152 % use section* for acknowledgement
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1154 %%%*********************************************************
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1155 \section*{Acknowledgment}
\r
1156 This paper is partially funded by the Labex ACTION program (contract
\r
1157 ANR-11-LABX-01-01). We acknowledge PRACE for awarding us access to resources
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1158 Curie and Juqueen respectively based in France and Germany.
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