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431 In this article, a two-stage iterative method is proposed to improve the
432 convergence of Krylov based iterative ones, typically those of GMRES variants. The
433 principle of the proposed approach is to build an external iteration over the Krylov
434 method, and to frequently store its current residual (at each
435 GMRES restart for instance). After a given number of outer iterations, a minimization
436 step is applied on the matrix composed by the saved residuals, in order to
437 compute a better solution while making new iterations if required. It is proven that
438 the proposal has the same convergence properties than the inner embedded method itself.
439 Experiments using up to 16,394 cores also show that the proposed algorithm
440 run around 7 times faster than GMRES.
444 Iterative Krylov methods; sparse linear systems; residual minimization; PETSc; %à voir...
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547 \section{Introduction}
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552 Iterative methods have recently become more attractive than direct ones to solve very large
553 sparse linear systems. They are more efficient in a parallel
554 context, supporting thousands of cores, and they require less memory and arithmetic
555 operations than direct methods. This is why new iterative methods are frequently
556 proposed or adapted by researchers, and the increasing need to solve very large sparse
557 linear systems has triggered the development of such efficient iterative techniques
558 suitable for parallel processing.
560 Most of the successful iterative methods currently available are based on so-called ``Krylov
561 subspaces''. They consist in forming a basis of successive matrix
562 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
563 systems. The most known iterative Krylov subspace methods are conjugate
564 gradient and GMRES ones (Generalized Minimal RESidual).
567 However, iterative methods suffer from scalability problems on parallel
568 computing platforms with many processors, due to their need of reduction
569 operations, and to collective communications to achive matrix-vector
570 multiplications. The communications on large clusters with thousands of cores
571 and large sizes of messages can significantly affect the performances of these
572 iterative methods. As a consequence, Krylov subspace iteration methods are often used
573 with preconditioners in practice, to increase their convergence and accelerate their
574 performances. However, most of the good preconditioners are not scalable on
577 In this research work, a two-stage algorithm based on two nested iterations
578 called inner-outer iterations is proposed. This algorithm consists in solving the sparse
579 linear system iteratively with a small number of inner iterations, and restarting
580 the outer step with a new solution minimizing some error functions over some
581 previous residuals. This algorithm is iterative and easy to parallelize on large
582 clusters. Furthermore, the minimization technique improves its convergence and
585 The present article is organized as follows. Related works are presented in
586 Section~\ref{sec:02}. Section~\ref{sec:03} details the two-stage algorithm using
587 a least-square residual minimization, while Section~\ref{sec:04} provides
588 convergence results regarding this method. Section~\ref{sec:05} shows some
589 experimental results obtained on large clusters using routines of PETSc
590 toolkit. This research work ends by a conclusion section, in which the proposal
591 is summarized while intended perspectives are provided.
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600 \section{Related works}
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610 \section{Two-stage algorithm with least-square residuals minimization}
612 A two-stage algorithm is proposed to solve large sparse linear systems of the
613 form $Ax=b$, where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is a sparse and square
614 nonsingular matrix, $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the solution vector, and
615 $b\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the right-hand side. As explained previously,
616 the algorithm is implemented as an
617 inner-outer iteration solver based on iterative Krylov methods. The main
618 key-points of the proposed solver are given in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}.
619 It can be summarized as follows: the
620 inner solver is a Krylov based one. In order to accelerate its convergence, the
621 outer solver periodically applies a least-square minimization on the residuals computed by the inner one. %Tsolver which does not required to be changed.
623 At each outer iteration, the sparse linear system $Ax=b$ is partially
624 solved using only $m$
625 iterations of an iterative method, this latter being initialized with the
626 best known approximation previously obtained.
627 GMRES method~\cite{Saad86}, or any of its variants, can be used for instance as an
628 inner solver. The current approximation of the Krylov method is then stored inside a matrix
629 $S$ composed by the successive solutions that are computed during inner iterations.
631 At each $s$ iterations, the minimization step is applied in order to
632 compute a new solution $x$. For that, the previous residuals are computed with
633 $(b-AS)$. The minimization of the residuals is obtained by
635 \underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2
638 with $R=AS$. Then the new solution $x$ is computed with $x=S\alpha$.
641 In practice, $R$ is a dense rectangular matrix belonging in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$,
642 with $s\ll n$. In order to minimize~(\eqref{eq:01}), a least-square method such as
643 CGLS ~\cite{Hestenes52} or LSQR~\cite{Paige82} is used. Remark that these methods are more
644 appropriate than a single direct method in a parallel context.
650 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
651 \Input $A$ (sparse matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
652 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
653 \State Set the initial guess $x^0$
654 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence (error$<\epsilon_{tsarm}$)} \label{algo:conv}
655 \State $x^k=Solve(A,b,x^{k-1},max\_iter_{kryl})$ \label{algo:solve}
656 \State retrieve error
657 \State $S_{k \mod s}=x^k$ \label{algo:store}
658 \If {$k \mod s=0$ {\bf and} error$>\epsilon_{kryl}$}
659 \State $R=AS$ \Comment{compute dense matrix} \label{algo:matrix_mul}
660 \State Solve least-square problem $\underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2$ \label{algo:}
661 \State $x^k=S\alpha$ \Comment{compute new solution}
668 Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} summarizes the principle of our method. The outer
669 iteration is inside the for loop. Line~\ref{algo:solve}, the Krylov method is
670 called for a maximum of $max\_iter_{kryl}$ iterations. In practice, we suggest to set this parameter
671 equals to the restart number of the GMRES-like method. Moreover, a tolerance
672 threshold must be specified for the solver. In practice, this threshold must be
673 much smaller than the convergence threshold of the TSARM algorithm (\emph{i.e.}
674 $\epsilon_{tsarm}$). Line~\ref{algo:store}, $S_{k~ mod~ s}=x^k$ consists in copying the
675 solution $x_k$ into the column $k~ mod~ s$ of the matrix $S$. After the
676 minimization, the matrix $S$ is reused with the new values of the residuals. To
677 solve the minimization problem, an iterative method is used. Two parameters are
678 required for that: the maximum number of iteration and the threshold to stop the
681 Let us summarize the most important parameters of TSARM:
683 \item $\epsilon_{tsarm}$: the threshold to stop the TSARM method;
684 \item $max\_iter_{kryl}$: the maximum number of iterations for the Krylov method;
685 \item $s$: the number of outer iterations before applying the minimization step;
686 \item $max\_iter_{ls}$: the maximum number of iterations for the iterative least-square method;
687 \item $\epsilon_{ls}$: the threshold used to stop the least-square method.
691 The parallelisation of TSARM relies on the parallelization of all its
692 parts. More precisely, except the least-square step, all the other parts are
693 obvious to achieve out in parallel. In order to develop a parallel version of
694 our code, we have chosen to use PETSc~\cite{petsc-web-page}. For
695 line~\ref{algo:matrix_mul} the matrix-matrix multiplication is implemented and
696 efficient since the matrix $A$ is sparse and since the matrix $S$ contains few
697 colums in practice. As explained previously, at least two methods seem to be
698 interesting to solve the least-square minimization, CGLS and LSQR.
700 In the following we remind the CGLS algorithm. The LSQR method follows more or
701 less the same principle but it take more place, so we briefly explain the parallelization of CGLS which is similar to LSQR.
705 \begin{algorithmic}[1]
706 \Input $A$ (matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
707 \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
712 \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence (g$<\epsilon_{ls}$)} \label{algo2:conv}
714 \State $\alpha=g/||q||^2_2$
720 \State $\beta=g/g_{old}$
727 In each iteration of CGLS, there is two matrix-vector multiplications and some
728 classical operations: dots, 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}.
740 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:
742 ||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_0|| ,
744 where $\alpha = \lambda_min(M)^2$ and $\beta = \lambda_max(A^T A)$, which proves
745 the convergence of GMRES($m$) for all $m$ under that assumption regarding $A$.
750 %%%*********************************************************
751 %%%*********************************************************
752 \section{Experiments using PETSc}
756 In order to see the influence of our algorithm with only one processor, we first
757 show a comparison with the standard version of GMRES and our algorithm. In
758 Table~\ref{tab:01}, we show the matrices we have used and some of them
759 characteristics. For all the matrices, the name, the field, the number of rows
760 and the number of nonzero elements is given.
764 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|}
766 Matrix name & Field &\# Rows & \# Nonzeros \\\hline \hline
767 crashbasis & Optimization & 160,000 & 1,750,416 \\
768 parabolic\_fem & Computational fluid dynamics & 525,825 & 2,100,225 \\
769 epb3 & Thermal problem & 84,617 & 463,625 \\
770 atmosmodj & Computational fluid dynamics & 1,270,432 & 8,814,880 \\
771 bfwa398 & Electromagnetics problem & 398 & 3,678 \\
772 torso3 & 2D/3D problem & 259,156 & 4,429,042 \\
776 \caption{Main characteristics of the sparse matrices chosen from the Davis collection}
781 The following parameters have been chosen for our experiments. As by default
782 the restart of GMRES is performed every 30 iterations, we have chosen to stop
783 the GMRES every 30 iterations, $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$). $s$ is set to 8. CGLS is
784 chosen to minimize the least-squares problem with the following parameters:
785 $\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$ and $max\_iter_{ls}=20$. The external precision is set to
786 $\epsilon_{tsarm}=1e-10$. Those experiments have been performed on a Intel(R)
787 Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz with the version 3.5.1 of PETSc.
790 In Table~\ref{tab:02}, some experiments comparing the solving of the linear
791 systems obtained with the previous matrices with a GMRES variant and with out 2
792 stage algorithm are given. In the second column, it can be noticed that either
793 gmres or fgmres is used to solve the linear system. According to the matrices,
794 different preconditioner is used. With TSARM, the same solver and the same
795 preconditionner is used. This Table shows that TSARM can drastically reduce the
796 number of iterations to reach the convergence when the number of iterations for
797 the normal GMRES is more or less greater than 500. In fact this also depends on
798 tow parameters: the number of iterations to stop GMRES and the number of
799 iterations to perform the minimization.
804 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|r|}
807 \multirow{2}{*}{Matrix name} & Solver / & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSARM CGLS} \\
809 & precond & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. \\\hline \hline
811 crashbasis & gmres / none & 15.65 & 518 & 14.12 & 450 \\
812 parabolic\_fem & gmres / ilu & 1009.94 & 7573 & 401.52 & 2970 \\
813 epb3 & fgmres / sor & 8.67 & 600 & 8.21 & 540 \\
814 atmosmodj & fgmres / sor & 104.23 & 451 & 88.97 & 366 \\
815 bfwa398 & gmres / none & 1.42 & 9612 & 0.28 & 1650 \\
816 torso3 & fgmres / sor & 37.70 & 565 & 34.97 & 510 \\
820 \caption{Comparison of (F)GMRES and 2 stage (F)GMRES algorithms in sequential with some matrices, time is expressed in seconds.}
829 In order to perform larger experiments, we have tested some example application
830 of PETSc. Those applications are available in the ksp part which is suited for
831 scalable linear equations solvers:
833 \item ex15 is an example which solves in parallel an operator using a finite
834 difference scheme. The diagonal is equals to 4 and 4 extra-diagonals
835 representing the neighbors in each directions is equal to -1. This example is
836 used in many physical phenomena, for example, heat and fluid flow, wave
838 \item ex54 is another example based on 2D problem discretized with quadrilateral
839 finite elements. For this example, the user can define the scaling of material
840 coefficient in embedded circle, it is called $\alpha$.
842 For more technical details on these applications, interested reader are invited
843 to read the codes available in the PETSc sources. Those problem have been
844 chosen because they are scalable with many cores. We have tested other problem
845 but they are not scalable with many cores.
847 In the following larger experiments are described on two large scale architectures: Curie and Juqeen... {\bf description...}\\
850 {\bf Description of preconditioners}
854 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
857 nb. cores & precond & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSARM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSARM LSQR} & best gain \\
859 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
860 2,048 & mg & 403.49 & 18,210 & 73.89 & 3,060 & 77.84 & 3,270 & 5.46 \\
861 2,048 & sor & 745.37 & 57,060 & 87.31 & 6,150 & 104.21 & 7,230 & 8.53 \\
862 4,096 & mg & 562.25 & 25,170 & 97.23 & 3,990 & 89.71 & 3,630 & 6.27 \\
863 4,096 & sor & 912.12 & 70,194 & 145.57 & 9,750 & 168.97 & 10,980 & 6.26 \\
864 8,192 & mg & 917.02 & 40,290 & 148.81 & 5,730 & 143.03 & 5,280 & 6.41 \\
865 8,192 & sor & 1,404.53 & 106,530 & 212.55 & 12,990 & 180.97 & 10,470 & 7.76 \\
866 16,384 & mg & 1,430.56 & 63,930 & 237.17 & 8,310 & 244.26 & 7,950 & 6.03 \\
867 16,384 & sor & 2,852.14 & 216,240 & 418.46 & 21,690 & 505.26 & 23,970 & 6.82 \\
871 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSARM with FGMRES for example ex15 of PETSc with two preconditioner (mg and sor) with 25,000 components per core on Juqueen (threshold 1e-3, restart=30, s=12), time is expressed in seconds.}
876 Table~\ref{tab:03} shows the execution times and the number of iterations of
877 example ex15 of PETSc on the Juqueen architecture. Differents number of cores
878 are studied rangin from 2,048 upto 16,383. Two preconditioners have been
879 tested. For those experiments, the number of components (or unknown of the
880 problems) per processor is fixed to 25,000. This number can seem relatively
881 small. In fact, for some applications that need a lot of memory, the number of
882 components per processor requires sometimes to be small.
884 In this Table, we can notice that TSARM is always faster than FGMRES. The last
885 column shows the ratio between FGMRES and the best version of TSARM according to
886 the minimization procedure: CGLS or LSQR.
891 \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex15_juqueen}
892 \caption{Number of iterations per second with ex15 and the same parameters than in Table~\ref{tab:03}}
902 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
905 nb. cores & threshold & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSARM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSARM LSQR} & best gain \\
907 & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
908 2,048 & 8e-5 & 108.88 & 16,560 & 23.06 & 3,630 & 22.79 & 3,630 & 4.77 \\
909 2,048 & 6e-5 & 194.01 & 30,270 & 35.50 & 5,430 & 27.74 & 4,350 & 6.99 \\
910 4,096 & 7e-5 & 160.59 & 22,530 & 35.15 & 5,130 & 29.21 & 4,350 & 5.49 \\
911 4,096 & 6e-5 & 249.27 & 35,520 & 52.13 & 7,950 & 39.24 & 5,790 & 6.35 \\
912 8,192 & 6e-5 & 149.54 & 17,280 & 28.68 & 3,810 & 29.05 & 3,990 & 5.21 \\
913 8,192 & 5e-5 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 \\
914 16,384 & 4e-5 & 718.61 & 86,400 & 98.98 & 10,830 & 131.86 & 14,790 & 7.26 \\
918 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and 2 stage FGMRES algorithms for ex54 of Petsc (both with the MG preconditioner) with 25000 components per core on Curie (restart=30, s=12), time is expressed in seconds.}
929 \begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
932 nb. cores & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSARM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSARM LSQR} & best gain & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{efficiency} \\
933 \cline{2-7} \cline{9-11}
934 & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & & GMRES & TS CGLS & TS LSQR\\\hline \hline
935 512 & 3,969.69 & 33,120 & 709.57 & 5,790 & 622.76 & 5,070 & 6.37 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
936 1024 & 1,530.06 & 25,860 & 290.95 & 4,830 & 307.71 & 5,070 & 5.25 & 1.30 & 1.21 & 1.01 \\
937 2048 & 919.62 & 31,470 & 237.52 & 8,040 & 194.22 & 6,510 & 4.73 & 1.08 & .75 & .80\\
938 4096 & 405.60 & 28,380 & 111.67 & 7,590 & 91.72 & 6,510 & 4.42 & 1.22 & .79 & .84 \\
939 8192 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 & .32 & .58 & .56 \\
944 \caption{Comparison of FGMRES and 2 stage FGMRES algorithms for ex54 of Petsc (both with the MG preconditioner) with 204,919,225 components on Curie with different number of cores (restart=30, s=12, threshol 5e-5), time is expressed in seconds.}
949 %%%*********************************************************
950 %%%*********************************************************
954 %%%*********************************************************
955 %%%*********************************************************
958 %The conclusion goes here. this is more of the conclusion
959 %%%*********************************************************
960 %%%*********************************************************
964 - study other kinds of matrices, problems, inner solvers\\
965 - test the influence of all the parameters\\
966 - adaptative number of outer iterations to minimize\\
967 - other methods to minimize the residuals?\\
968 - implement our solver inside PETSc
971 % conference papers do not normally have an appendix
975 % use section* for acknowledgement
976 %%%*********************************************************
977 %%%*********************************************************
978 \section*{Acknowledgment}
979 This paper is partially funded by the Labex ACTION program (contract
980 ANR-11-LABX-01-01). We acknowledge PRACE for awarding us access to resource
981 Curie and Juqueen respectively based in France and Germany.
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