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+\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Rapha\"el Couturier\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}, Lilia Ziane Khodja \IEEEauthorrefmark{2}, and Christophe Guyeux\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}}
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+Email: lilia.ziane@inria.fr}
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+\begin{abstract}
+In this article, a two-stage iterative algorithm is proposed to improve the
+convergence of Krylov based iterative methods, typically those of GMRES
+variants. The principle of the proposed approach is to build an external
+iteration over the Krylov method, and to frequently store its current residual
+(at each GMRES restart for instance). After a given number of outer iterations,
+a least-squares minimization step is applied on the matrix composed by the saved
+residuals, in order to compute a better solution and to make new iterations if
+required. It is proven that the proposal has the same convergence properties
+than the inner embedded method itself. Experiments using up to 16,394 cores
+also show that the proposed algorithm runs around 5 or 7 times faster than
+GMRES.
+\end{abstract}
+
+\begin{IEEEkeywords}
+Iterative Krylov methods; sparse linear systems; residual minimization; PETSc; %à voir...
+\end{IEEEkeywords}
+
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+%%%*********************************************************
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+\section{Introduction}
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+
+Iterative methods have recently become more attractive than direct ones to solve very large
+sparse linear systems. They are more efficient in a parallel
+context, supporting thousands of cores, and they require less memory and arithmetic
+operations than direct methods. This is why new iterative methods are frequently
+proposed or adapted by researchers, and the increasing need to solve very large sparse
+linear systems has triggered the development of such efficient iterative techniques
+suitable for parallel processing.
+
+Most of the successful iterative methods currently available are based on so-called ``Krylov
+subspaces''. They consist in forming a basis of successive matrix
+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
+systems. The most known iterative Krylov subspace methods are conjugate
+gradient and GMRES ones (Generalized Minimal RESidual).
+
+
+However, iterative methods suffer from scalability problems on parallel
+computing platforms with many processors, due to their need of reduction
+operations, and to collective communications to achive matrix-vector
+multiplications. The communications on large clusters with thousands of cores
+and large sizes of messages can significantly affect the performances of these
+iterative methods. As a consequence, Krylov subspace iteration methods are often used
+with preconditioners in practice, to increase their convergence and accelerate their
+performances. However, most of the good preconditioners are not scalable on
+large clusters.
+
+In this research work, a two-stage algorithm based on two nested iterations
+called inner-outer iterations is proposed. This algorithm consists in solving the sparse
+linear system iteratively with a small number of inner iterations, and restarting
+the outer step with a new solution minimizing some error functions over some
+previous residuals. This algorithm is iterative and easy to parallelize on large
+clusters. Furthermore, the minimization technique improves its convergence and
+performances.
+
+The present article is organized as follows. Related works are presented in
+Section~\ref{sec:02}. Section~\ref{sec:03} details the two-stage algorithm using
+a least-squares residual minimization, while Section~\ref{sec:04} provides
+convergence results regarding this method. Section~\ref{sec:05} shows some
+experimental results obtained on large clusters using routines of PETSc
+toolkit. This research work ends by a conclusion section, in which the proposal
+is summarized while intended perspectives are provided.
+
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+
+
+
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+\section{Related works}
+\label{sec:02}
+%Wherever Times is specified, Times Roman or Times New Roman may be used. If neither is available on your system, please use the font closest in appearance to Times. Avoid using bit-mapped fonts if possible. True-Type 1 or Open Type fonts are preferred. Please embed symbol fonts, as well, for math, etc.
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+
+
+
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+\section{Two-stage iteration with least-squares residuals minimization algorithm}
+\label{sec:03}
+A two-stage algorithm is proposed to solve large sparse linear systems of the
+form $Ax=b$, where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is a sparse and square
+nonsingular matrix, $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the solution vector, and
+$b\in\mathbb{R}^n$ is the right-hand side. As explained previously,
+the algorithm is implemented as an
+inner-outer iteration solver based on iterative Krylov methods. The main
+key-points of the proposed solver are given in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}.
+It can be summarized as follows: the
+inner solver is a Krylov based one. In order to accelerate its convergence, the
+outer solver periodically applies a least-squares minimization on the residuals computed by the inner one. %Tsolver which does not required to be changed.
+
+At each outer iteration, the sparse linear system $Ax=b$ is partially
+solved using only $m$
+iterations of an iterative method, this latter being initialized with the
+best known approximation previously obtained.
+GMRES method~\cite{Saad86}, or any of its variants, can be used for instance as an
+inner solver. The current approximation of the Krylov method is then stored inside a matrix
+$S$ composed by the successive solutions that are computed during inner iterations.
+
+At each $s$ iterations, the minimization step is applied in order to
+compute a new solution $x$. For that, the previous residuals of $Ax=b$ are computed by
+the inner iterations with $(b-AS)$. The minimization of the residuals is obtained by
+\begin{equation}
+ \underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2
+\label{eq:01}
+\end{equation}
+with $R=AS$. Then the new solution $x$ is computed with $x=S\alpha$.
+
+
+In practice, $R$ is a dense rectangular matrix belonging in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$,
+with $s\ll n$. In order to minimize~\eqref{eq:01}, a least-squares method such as
+CGLS ~\cite{Hestenes52} or LSQR~\cite{Paige82} is used. Remark that these methods are more
+appropriate than a single direct method in a parallel context.
+
+
+
+\begin{algorithm}[t]
+\caption{TSIRM}
+\begin{algorithmic}[1]
+ \Input $A$ (sparse matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
+ \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
+ \State Set the initial guess $x_0$
+ \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence (error$<\epsilon_{tsirm}$)} \label{algo:conv}
+ \State $x_k=Solve(A,b,x_{k-1},max\_iter_{kryl})$ \label{algo:solve}
+ \State retrieve error
+ \State $S_{k \mod s}=x_k$ \label{algo:store}
+ \If {$k \mod s=0$ {\bf and} error$>\epsilon_{kryl}$}
+ \State $R=AS$ \Comment{compute dense matrix} \label{algo:matrix_mul}
+ \State $\alpha=Least\_Squares(R,b,max\_iter_{ls})$ \label{algo:}
+ \State $x_k=S\alpha$ \Comment{compute new solution}
+ \EndIf
+ \EndFor
+\end{algorithmic}
+\label{algo:01}
+\end{algorithm}
+
+Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} summarizes the principle of our method. The outer
+iteration is inside the for loop. Line~\ref{algo:solve}, the Krylov method is
+called for a maximum of $max\_iter_{kryl}$ iterations. In practice, we suggest to set this parameter
+equals to the restart number of the GMRES-like method. Moreover, a tolerance
+threshold must be specified for the solver. In practice, this threshold must be
+much smaller than the convergence threshold of the TSIRM algorithm (\emph{i.e.}
+$\epsilon_{tsirm}$). Line~\ref{algo:store}, $S_{k~ mod~ s}=x^k$ consists in copying the
+solution $x_k$ into the column $k~ mod~ s$ of the matrix $S$. After the
+minimization, the matrix $S$ is reused with the new values of the residuals. To
+solve the minimization problem, an iterative method is used. Two parameters are
+required for that: the maximum number of iterations and the threshold to stop the
+method.
+
+Let us summarize the most important parameters of TSIRM:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item $\epsilon_{tsirm}$: the threshold to stop the TSIRM method;
+\item $max\_iter_{kryl}$: the maximum number of iterations for the Krylov method;
+\item $s$: the number of outer iterations before applying the minimization step;
+\item $max\_iter_{ls}$: the maximum number of iterations for the iterative least-squares method;
+\item $\epsilon_{ls}$: the threshold used to stop the least-squares method.
+\end{itemize}
+
+
+The parallelisation of TSIRM relies on the parallelization of all its
+parts. More precisely, except the least-squares step, all the other parts are
+obvious to achieve out in parallel. In order to develop a parallel version of
+our code, we have chosen to use PETSc~\cite{petsc-web-page}. For
+line~\ref{algo:matrix_mul} the matrix-matrix multiplication is implemented and
+efficient since the matrix $A$ is sparse and since the matrix $S$ contains few
+colums in practice. As explained previously, at least two methods seem to be
+interesting to solve the least-squares minimization, CGLS and LSQR.
+
+In the following we remind the CGLS algorithm. The LSQR method follows more or
+less the same principle but it takes more place, so we briefly explain the parallelization of CGLS which is similar to LSQR.
+
+\begin{algorithm}[t]
+\caption{CGLS}
+\begin{algorithmic}[1]
+ \Input $A$ (matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
+ \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
+ \State Let $x_0$ be an initial approximation
+ \State $r_0=b-Ax_0$
+ \State $p_1=A^Tr_0$
+ \State $s_0=p_1$
+ \State $\gamma=||s_0||^2_2$
+ \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence ($\gamma<\epsilon_{ls}$)} \label{algo2:conv}
+ \State $q_k=Ap_k$
+ \State $\alpha_k=\gamma/||q_k||^2_2$
+ \State $x_k=x_{k-1}+\alpha_kp_k$
+ \State $r_k=r_{k-1}-\alpha_kq_k$
+ \State $s_k=A^Tr_k$
+ \State $\gamma_{old}=\gamma$
+ \State $\gamma=||s_k||^2_2$
+ \State $\beta_k=\gamma/\gamma_{old}$
+ \State $p_{k+1}=s_k+\beta_kp_k$
+ \EndFor
+\end{algorithmic}
+\label{algo:02}
+\end{algorithm}
+
+
+In each iteration of CGLS, there is two matrix-vector multiplications and some
+classical operations: dot product, norm, multiplication and addition on vectors. All
+these operations are easy to implement in PETSc or similar environment.
+
+
+
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+
+\section{Convergence results}
+\label{sec:04}
+Let us recall the following result, see~\cite{Saad86}.
+\begin{proposition}
+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:
+\begin{equation}
+||r_m|| \leqslant \left(1-\dfrac{\alpha}{\beta}\right)^{\frac{m}{2}} ||r_0|| ,
+\end{equation}
+where $\alpha = \lambda_min(M)^2$ and $\beta = \lambda_max(A^T A)$, which proves
+the convergence of GMRES($m$) for all $m$ under that assumption regarding $A$.
+\end{proposition}
+
+
+
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+\section{Experiments using PETSc}
+\label{sec:05}
+
+
+In order to see the influence of our algorithm with only one processor, we first
+show a comparison with the standard version of GMRES and our algorithm. In
+Table~\ref{tab:01}, we show the matrices we have used and some of them
+characteristics. For all the matrices, the name, the field, the number of rows
+and the number of nonzero elements are given.
+
+\begin{table}[htbp]
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|}
+\hline
+Matrix name & Field &\# Rows & \# Nonzeros \\\hline \hline
+crashbasis & Optimization & 160,000 & 1,750,416 \\
+parabolic\_fem & Comput. fluid dynamics & 525,825 & 2,100,225 \\
+epb3 & Thermal problem & 84,617 & 463,625 \\
+atmosmodj & Comput. fluid dynamics & 1,270,432 & 8,814,880 \\
+bfwa398 & Electromagnetics pb & 398 & 3,678 \\
+torso3 & 2D/3D problem & 259,156 & 4,429,042 \\
+\hline
+
+\end{tabular}
+\caption{Main characteristics of the sparse matrices chosen from the Davis collection}
+\label{tab:01}
+\end{center}
+\end{table}
+
+The following parameters have been chosen for our experiments. As by default
+the restart of GMRES is performed every 30 iterations, we have chosen to stop
+the GMRES every 30 iterations (\emph{i.e.} $max\_iter_{kryl}=30$). $s$ is set to 8. CGLS is
+chosen to minimize the least-squares problem with the following parameters:
+$\epsilon_{ls}=1e-40$ and $max\_iter_{ls}=20$. The external precision is set to
+$\epsilon_{tsirm}=1e-10$. Those experiments have been performed on a Intel(R)
+Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz with the version 3.5.1 of PETSc.
+
+
+In Table~\ref{tab:02}, some experiments comparing the solving of the linear
+systems obtained with the previous matrices with a GMRES variant and with out 2
+stage algorithm are given. In the second column, it can be noticed that either
+gmres or fgmres is used to solve the linear system. According to the matrices,
+different preconditioner is used. With TSIRM, the same solver and the same
+preconditionner are used. This Table shows that TSIRM can drastically reduce the
+number of iterations to reach the convergence when the number of iterations for
+the normal GMRES is more or less greater than 500. In fact this also depends on
+tow parameters: the number of iterations to stop GMRES and the number of
+iterations to perform the minimization.
+
+
+\begin{table}[htbp]
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|r|}
+\hline
+
+ \multirow{2}{*}{Matrix name} & Solver / & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} \\
+\cline{3-6}
+ & precond & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. \\\hline \hline
+
+crashbasis & gmres / none & 15.65 & 518 & 14.12 & 450 \\
+parabolic\_fem & gmres / ilu & 1009.94 & 7573 & 401.52 & 2970 \\
+epb3 & fgmres / sor & 8.67 & 600 & 8.21 & 540 \\
+atmosmodj & fgmres / sor & 104.23 & 451 & 88.97 & 366 \\
+bfwa398 & gmres / none & 1.42 & 9612 & 0.28 & 1650 \\
+torso3 & fgmres / sor & 37.70 & 565 & 34.97 & 510 \\
+\hline
+
+\end{tabular}
+\caption{Comparison of (F)GMRES and 2 stage (F)GMRES algorithms in sequential with some matrices, time is expressed in seconds.}
+\label{tab:02}
+\end{center}
+\end{table}
+
+
+
+
+
+In order to perform larger experiments, we have tested some example applications
+of PETSc. Those applications are available in the ksp part which is suited for
+scalable linear equations solvers:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item ex15 is an example which solves in parallel an operator using a finite
+ difference scheme. The diagonal is equal to 4 and 4 extra-diagonals
+ representing the neighbors in each directions are equal to -1. This example is
+ used in many physical phenomena, for example, heat and fluid flow, wave
+ propagation, etc.
+\item ex54 is another example based on 2D problem discretized with quadrilateral
+ finite elements. For this example, the user can define the scaling of material
+ coefficient in embedded circle called $\alpha$.
+\end{itemize}
+For more technical details on these applications, interested readers are invited
+to read the codes available in the PETSc sources. Those problems have been
+chosen because they are scalable with many cores which is not the case of other problems that we have tested.
+
+In the following larger experiments are described on two large scale architectures: Curie and Juqeen... {\bf description...}\\
+
+
+{\bf Description of preconditioners}\\
+
+\begin{table*}[htbp]
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
+\hline
+
+ nb. cores & precond & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{FGMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain \\
+\cline{3-8}
+ & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
+ 2,048 & mg & 403.49 & 18,210 & 73.89 & 3,060 & 77.84 & 3,270 & 5.46 \\
+ 2,048 & sor & 745.37 & 57,060 & 87.31 & 6,150 & 104.21 & 7,230 & 8.53 \\
+ 4,096 & mg & 562.25 & 25,170 & 97.23 & 3,990 & 89.71 & 3,630 & 6.27 \\
+ 4,096 & sor & 912.12 & 70,194 & 145.57 & 9,750 & 168.97 & 10,980 & 6.26 \\
+ 8,192 & mg & 917.02 & 40,290 & 148.81 & 5,730 & 143.03 & 5,280 & 6.41 \\
+ 8,192 & sor & 1,404.53 & 106,530 & 212.55 & 12,990 & 180.97 & 10,470 & 7.76 \\
+ 16,384 & mg & 1,430.56 & 63,930 & 237.17 & 8,310 & 244.26 & 7,950 & 6.03 \\
+ 16,384 & sor & 2,852.14 & 216,240 & 418.46 & 21,690 & 505.26 & 23,970 & 6.82 \\
+\hline
+
+\end{tabular}
+\caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM with FGMRES for example ex15 of PETSc with two preconditioners (mg and sor) with 25,000 components per core on Juqueen (threshold 1e-3, restart=30, s=12), time is expressed in seconds.}
+\label{tab:03}
+\end{center}
+\end{table*}
+
+Table~\ref{tab:03} shows the execution times and the number of iterations of
+example ex15 of PETSc on the Juqueen architecture. Different numbers of cores
+are studied ranging from 2,048 up-to 16,383. Two preconditioners have been
+tested: {\it mg} and {\it sor}. For those experiments, the number of components (or unknowns of the
+problems) per processor is fixed to 25,000, also called weak scaling. This
+number can seem relatively small. In fact, for some applications that need a lot
+of memory, the number of components per processor requires sometimes to be
+small.
+
+
+
+In Table~\ref{tab:03}, we can notice that TSIRM is always faster than FGMRES. The last
+column shows the ratio between FGMRES and the best version of TSIRM according to
+the minimization procedure: CGLS or LSQR. Even if we have computed the worst
+case between CGLS and LSQR, it is clear that TSIRM is always faster than
+FGMRES. For this example, the multigrid preconditioner is faster than SOR. The
+gain between TSIRM and FGMRES is more or less similar for the two
+preconditioners. Looking at the number of iterations to reach the convergence,
+it is obvious that TSIRM allows the reduction of the number of iterations. It
+should be noticed that for TSIRM, in those experiments, only the iterations of
+the Krylov solver are taken into account. Iterations of CGLS or LSQR were not
+recorded but they are time-consuming. In general each $max\_iter_{kryl}*s$ which
+corresponds to 30*12, there are $max\_iter_{ls}$ which corresponds to 15.
+
+\begin{figure}[htbp]
+\centering
+ \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex15_juqueen}
+\caption{Number of iterations per second with ex15 and the same parameters than in Table~\ref{tab:03} (weak scaling)}
+\label{fig:01}
+\end{figure}
+
+
+In Figure~\ref{fig:01}, the number of iterations per second corresponding to
+Table~\ref{tab:01} is displayed. It can be noticed that the number of
+iterations per second of FMGRES is constant whereas it decrease with TSIRM with
+both preconditioner. This can be explained by the fact that when the number of
+core increases the time for the minimization step also increases but, generally,
+when the number of cores increases, the number of iterations to reach the
+threshold also increases, and, in that case, TSIRM is more efficient to reduce
+the number of iterations. So, the overall benefit of using TSIRM is interesting.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+\begin{table*}[htbp]
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
+\hline
+
+ nb. cores & threshold & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain \\
+\cline{3-8}
+ & & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & \\\hline \hline
+ 2,048 & 8e-5 & 108.88 & 16,560 & 23.06 & 3,630 & 22.79 & 3,630 & 4.77 \\
+ 2,048 & 6e-5 & 194.01 & 30,270 & 35.50 & 5,430 & 27.74 & 4,350 & 6.99 \\
+ 4,096 & 7e-5 & 160.59 & 22,530 & 35.15 & 5,130 & 29.21 & 4,350 & 5.49 \\
+ 4,096 & 6e-5 & 249.27 & 35,520 & 52.13 & 7,950 & 39.24 & 5,790 & 6.35 \\
+ 8,192 & 6e-5 & 149.54 & 17,280 & 28.68 & 3,810 & 29.05 & 3,990 & 5.21 \\
+ 8,192 & 5e-5 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 \\
+ 16,384 & 4e-5 & 718.61 & 86,400 & 98.98 & 10,830 & 131.86 & 14,790 & 7.26 \\
+\hline
+
+\end{tabular}
+\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.}
+\label{tab:04}
+\end{center}
+\end{table*}
+
+
+In Table~\ref{tab:04}, some experiments with example ex54 on the Curie architecture are reported.
+
+
+\begin{table*}[htbp]
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|}
+\hline
+
+ nb. cores & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM CGLS} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{TSIRM LSQR} & best gain & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{efficiency} \\
+\cline{2-7} \cline{9-11}
+ & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & Time & \# Iter. & & GMRES & TS CGLS & TS LSQR\\\hline \hline
+ 512 & 3,969.69 & 33,120 & 709.57 & 5,790 & 622.76 & 5,070 & 6.37 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
+ 1024 & 1,530.06 & 25,860 & 290.95 & 4,830 & 307.71 & 5,070 & 5.25 & 1.30 & 1.21 & 1.01 \\
+ 2048 & 919.62 & 31,470 & 237.52 & 8,040 & 194.22 & 6,510 & 4.73 & 1.08 & .75 & .80\\
+ 4096 & 405.60 & 28,380 & 111.67 & 7,590 & 91.72 & 6,510 & 4.42 & 1.22 & .79 & .84 \\
+ 8192 & 785.04 & 109,590 & 76.07 & 10,470 & 69.42 & 9,030 & 11.30 & .32 & .58 & .56 \\
+
+\hline
+
+\end{tabular}
+\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.}
+\label{tab:05}
+\end{center}
+\end{table*}
+
+\begin{figure}[htbp]
+\centering
+ \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{nb_iter_sec_ex54_curie}
+\caption{Number of iterations per second with ex54 and the same parameters than in Table~\ref{tab:05} (strong scaling)}
+\label{fig:02}
+\end{figure}
+
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+
+
+
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+\section{Conclusion}
+\label{sec:06}
+%The conclusion goes here. this is more of the conclusion
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+
+
+future plan : \\
+- study other kinds of matrices, problems, inner solvers\\
+- test the influence of all the parameters\\
+- adaptative number of outer iterations to minimize\\
+- other methods to minimize the residuals?\\
+- implement our solver inside PETSc
+
+
+% conference papers do not normally have an appendix
+
+
+
+% use section* for acknowledgement
+%%%*********************************************************
+%%%*********************************************************
+\section*{Acknowledgment}
+This paper is partially funded by the Labex ACTION program (contract
+ANR-11-LABX-01-01). We acknowledge PRACE for awarding us access to resource
+Curie and Juqueen respectively based in France and Germany.
+
+
+
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+% references section
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+% set second argument of \begin to the number of references
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+%% \begin{thebibliography}{1}
+
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+
+%% \bibitem{saad96} Y.~Saad, \emph{Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems}, PWS Publishing, New York, 1996.
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+%% \bibitem{paige82} C.~C.~Paige and A.~M.~Saunders, \emph{LSQR: An Algorithm for Sparse Linear Equations and Sparse Least Squares}, ACM Trans. Math. Softw. 8(1):43--71, 1982.
+%% \end{thebibliography}
+
+
+
+
+% that's all folks
+\end{document}
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