\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\Input $A$ (sparse matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
\Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
- \State Set the initial guess $x^0$
+ \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 $x_k=Solve(A,b,x_{k-1},max\_iter_{kryl})$ \label{algo:solve}
\State retrieve error
- \State $S_{k \mod s}=x^k$ \label{algo:store}
+ \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 $\alpha=Solve\_Least\_Squares(R,b,max\_iter_{ls})$ \label{algo:}
- \State $x^k=S\alpha$ \Comment{compute new solution}
+ \State $\alpha=Least\_Squares(R,b,max\_iter_{ls})$ \label{algo:}
+ \State $x_k=S\alpha$ \Comment{compute new solution}
\EndIf
\EndFor
\end{algorithmic}
\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 is equal to -1. This example is
+ 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...
+ 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, it is called $\alpha$.
+ coefficient in embedded circle called $\alpha$.
\end{itemize}
-For more technical details on these applications, interested reader are invited
-to read the codes available in the PETSc sources. Those problem have been
-chosen because they are scalable with many cores. We have tested other problem
-but they are not scalable with many cores.
+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}
+{\bf Description of preconditioners}\\
\begin{table*}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\hline
\end{tabular}
-\caption{Comparison of FGMRES and TSIRM 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.}
+\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. Differents number of cores
-are studied rangin from 2,048 upto 16,383. Two preconditioners have been
-tested. For those experiments, the number of components (or unknown of the
+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
-In this Table, we can notice that TSIRM is always faster than FGMRES. The last
+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 alsways faster than
-FGMRES. For this example, the multigrid preconditionner is faster than SOR. The
+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
