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@@ -611,19 +611,19 @@ equations arising from very large and complex problems.
 GMRES is one of the most  widely used Krylov iterative method for solving sparse
 and large  linear systems. It  has been developed by  Saad \emph{et al.}~\cite{Saad86}  as a
 generalized  method to  deal with  unsymmetric and  non-Hermitian  problems, and
 GMRES is one of the most  widely used Krylov iterative method for solving sparse
 and large  linear systems. It  has been developed by  Saad \emph{et al.}~\cite{Saad86}  as a
 generalized  method to  deal with  unsymmetric and  non-Hermitian  problems, and

-indefinite symmetric problems too. In its original version called full GMRES, it
+indefinite symmetric problems too. In its original version called full GMRES, this algorithm

 minimizes the residual over the  current Krylov subspace until convergence in at
 minimizes the residual over the  current Krylov subspace until convergence in at

-most $n$ iterations,  where $n$ is the  size of the sparse matrix.  It should be
-noticed that full GMRES is too expensive in the case of large matrices since the
+most $n$ iterations,  where $n$ is the  size of the sparse matrix.  
+Full GMRES is however too much expensive in the case of large matrices, since the

 required orthogonalization  process per  iteration grows quadratically  with the
 required orthogonalization  process per  iteration grows quadratically  with the

-number of iterations. For that reason, in practice GMRES is restarted after each
-$m\ll n$ iterations to avoid the  storage of a large orthonormal basis. However,
+number of iterations. For that reason, GMRES is restarted in practice after each
+$m\ll n$ iterations, to avoid the  storage of a large orthonormal basis. However,

 the  convergence behavior  of the  restarted GMRES,  called GMRES($m$),  in many
 the  convergence behavior  of the  restarted GMRES,  called GMRES($m$),  in many

-cases depends quite critically on  the value of $m$~\cite{Huang89}. Therefore in
+cases depends quite critically on  the $m$ value~\cite{Huang89}. Therefore in

 most cases, a preconditioning technique is applied to the restarted GMRES method
 in order to improve its convergence.
 
 most cases, a preconditioning technique is applied to the restarted GMRES method
 in order to improve its convergence.
 

-In order to enhance the robustness of Krylov iterative solvers, some techniques have been proposed allowing the use of different preconditioners, if necessary, within the iteration instead of restarting. Those techniques may lead to considerable savings in CPU time and memory requirements. Van der Vorst in~\cite{Vorst94} has proposed variants of the GMRES algorithm in which a different preconditioner is applied in each iteration, so-called GMRESR family of nested methods. In fact, the GMRES method is effectively preconditioned with other iterative schemes (or GMRES itself), where the iterations of the GMRES method are called outer iterations while the iterations of the preconditioning process referred to as inner iterations. Saad in~\cite{Saad:1993} has proposed FGMRES which is another variant of the GMRES algorithm using a variable preconditioner. In FGMRES the search directions are preconditioned whereas in GMRESR the residuals are preconditioned. However in practice the good preconditioners are those based on direct methods, as ILU preconditioners, which are not easy to parallelize and suffer from the scalability problems on large clusters of thousands of cores.  
+To enhance the robustness of Krylov iterative solvers, some techniques have been proposed allowing the use of different preconditioners, if necessary, within the iteration instead of restarting. Those techniques may lead to considerable savings in CPU time and memory requirements. Van der Vorst in~\cite{Vorst94} has proposed variants of the GMRES algorithm in which a different preconditioner is applied in each iteration, so-called GMRESR family of nested methods. In fact, the GMRES method is effectively preconditioned with other iterative schemes (or GMRES itself), where the iterations of the GMRES method are called outer iterations while the iterations of the preconditioning process referred to as inner iterations. Saad in~\cite{Saad:1993} has proposed FGMRES which is another variant of the GMRES algorithm using a variable preconditioner. In FGMRES the search directions are preconditioned whereas in GMRESR the residuals are preconditioned. However in practice the good preconditioners are those based on direct methods, as ILU preconditioners, which are not easy to parallelize and suffer from the scalability problems on large clusters of thousands of cores.  

 
 Recently, communication-avoiding methods have been developed to reduce the communication overheads in Krylov subspace iterative solvers. On modern computer architectures, communications between processors are much slower than floating-point arithmetic operations on a given processor. Communication-avoiding techniques reduce either communications between processors or data movements between levels of the memory hierarchy, by reformulating the communication-bound kernels (more frequently SpMV kernels) and the orthogonalization operations within the Krylov iterative solver. Different works have studied the communication-avoiding techniques for the GMRES method, so-called CA-GMRES, on multicore processors and multi-GPU machines~\cite{Mohiyuddin2009,Hoemmen2010,Yamazaki2014}. 
 
 
 Recently, communication-avoiding methods have been developed to reduce the communication overheads in Krylov subspace iterative solvers. On modern computer architectures, communications between processors are much slower than floating-point arithmetic operations on a given processor. Communication-avoiding techniques reduce either communications between processors or data movements between levels of the memory hierarchy, by reformulating the communication-bound kernels (more frequently SpMV kernels) and the orthogonalization operations within the Krylov iterative solver. Different works have studied the communication-avoiding techniques for the GMRES method, so-called CA-GMRES, on multicore processors and multi-GPU machines~\cite{Mohiyuddin2009,Hoemmen2010,Yamazaki2014}.