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-\title{A Krylov two-stage algorithm to solve large sparse linear systems}
+\title{TSARM: A Two-Stage Algorithm with least-square Residual Minimization to solve large sparse linear systems}

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-\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Rapha\"el Couturier}
-\IEEEauthorblockA{Femto-ST Institute - DISC Department\\
-Universit\'e de Franche-Comt\'e, IUT de Belfort-Montb\'eliard\\
-19 avenue de Mar\'echal Juin, BP 527 \\
-90016 Belfort Cedex, France\\
-Email: raphael.couturier@univ-fcomte.fr}
-\and
-\IEEEauthorblockN{Lilia Ziane Khodja}
-\IEEEauthorblockA{Centre de Recherche INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest\\
-200 avenue de la Vieille Tour\\
-33405 Talence Cedex, France\\
+\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Rapha\"el Couturier\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}, Lilia Ziane Khodja \IEEEauthorrefmark{2} and Christophe Guyeux\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}}
+\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{1} Femto-ST Institute, University of Franche Comte, France\\
+Email: \{raphael.couturier,christophe.guyeux\}@univ-fcomte.fr}
+\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{2} INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France\\

 Email: lilia.ziane@inria.fr}
 }
 
 Email: lilia.ziane@inria.fr}
 }
 

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-%The abstract goes here. DO NOT USE SPECIAL CHARACTERS, SYMBOLS, OR MATH IN YOUR TITLE OR ABSTRACT.
+In  this paper  we propose  a  two stage  iterative method  which increases  the
+convergence of Krylov iterative methods,  typically those of GMRES variants. The
+principle of  our approach  is to  build an external  iteration over  the Krylov
+method  and to  save  the current  residual  frequently (for  example, for  each
+restart of GMRES). Then after a given number of outer iterations, a minimization
+step is applied on the matrix composed of the save residuals in order to compute
+a  better solution and  make a  new iteration  if necessary.  We prove  that our
+method  has the  same  convergence property  than  the inner  method used.  Some
+experiments using up  to 16,394 cores show that compared  to GMRES our algorithm
+can be around 7 times faster.

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-Iterative methods are become more attractive than direct ones to solve large sparse linear systems. They are more effective in a parallel context and require less memory and arithmetic operations than direct methods. A number of iterative methods are proposed and adapted by many researchers and the increased need for solving very large sparse linear systems triggered the development of efficient iterative techniques suitable for the parallel processing.

 
 

-The most successful iterative methods currently available are those based on Krylov subspaces which consist in forming a basis of a sequence of successive matrix powers times an initial vector for example the residual. These methods are based on orthogonality of vectors of the Krylov subspace basis to solve linear systems. The most well-known iterative Krylov subspace methods are Conjugate Gradient method and GMRES method (generalized minimal residual).
-
-However, the iterative methods suffer from scalability problems on parallel computing platforms with many processors due to their need for reduction operations and collective communications to perform matrix-vector multiplications. The communications on large clusters with thousands of cores and large sizes of messages can significantly affect the performances of iterative methods. In practice, Krylov subspace iteration methods are often used with preconditioners in order to increase their convergence and accelerate their performances. However, most of the good preconditioners are not scalable on large clusters. 
-
-In this paper we propose a two-stage algorithm based on two nested iterations called inner-outer iterations. The algorithm consists in solving the sparse linear system iteratively with a small number of inner iterations and restarts the outer step with a new solution minimizing some error function over a Krylov subspace. The algorithm is iterative and easy to parallelize on large clusters and the minimization technique improves its convergence and performances.
-
-The present paper is organized as follows. In Section~\ref{sec:02} some related works are presented. Section~\ref{sec:03} presents our two-stage algorithm based on Krylov subspace iteration methods. Section~\ref{sec:04} shows some experimental results obtained on large clusters of our algorithm using routines of PETSc toolkit.  
+Iterative methods  became more attractive than  direct ones to  solve very large
+sparse  linear systems.  Iterative  methods  are more  effecient  in a  parallel
+context,  with  thousands  of  cores,  and  require  less  memory  and  arithmetic
+operations than direct  methods. A number of iterative  methods are proposed and
+adapted by many researchers and the increased need for solving very large sparse
+linear  systems  triggered the  development  of  efficient iterative  techniques
+suitable for the parallel processing.
+
+Most of the successful iterative methods currently available are based on Krylov
+subspaces which  consist in forming a  basis of a sequence  of successive matrix
+powers times an initial vector for example the residual. These methods are based
+on  orthogonality  of vectors  of  the Krylov  subspace  basis  to solve  linear
+systems.  The  most well-known iterative  Krylov subspace methods  are Conjugate
+Gradient method and GMRES method (generalized minimal residual).
+
+However,  iterative  methods suffer  from scalability  problems  on parallel
+computing  platforms  with many  processors  due  to  their need  for  reduction
+operations    and   collective    communications   to    perform   matrix-vector
+multiplications. The  communications on large  clusters with thousands  of cores
+and  large  sizes of  messages  can  significantly  affect the  performances  of
+iterative methods. In practice, Krylov subspace iteration methods are often used
+with preconditioners in order to increase their convergence and accelerate their
+performances.  However, most  of the  good preconditioners  are not  scalable on
+large clusters.
+
+In this  paper we propose a  two-stage algorithm based on  two nested iterations
+called inner-outer  iterations.  This algorithm  consists in solving  the sparse
+linear system iteratively  with a small number of  inner iterations and restarts
+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   and  the   minimization  technique   improves  its   convergence  and
+performances.
+
+The present paper is organized  as follows. In Section~\ref{sec:02} some related
+works are presented. Section~\ref{sec:03} presents our two-stage algorithm using
+a  least-square  residual   minimization.  Section~\ref{sec:04}  describes  some
+convergence results on this method.
+   Section~\ref{sec:05}  shows   some
+experimental results obtained on large  clusters of our algorithm using routines
+of PETSc toolkit.

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@@ -566,13 +606,29 @@ The present paper is organized as follows. In Section~\ref{sec:02} some related
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 \section{A Krylov two-stage algorithm}
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 \section{A Krylov two-stage algorithm}
 \label{sec:03}

-We propose a two-stage algorithm 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. The algorithm is implemented as an inner-outer iteration solver based on iterative Krylov methods. The main key points of our solver are given in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}. 
-
-In order to accelerate the convergence, the outer iteration is implemented as an iterative Krylov method which minimizes some error function over a Krylov subspace~\cite{saad96}. At every iteration, the sparse linear system $Ax=b$ is solved iteratively with an iterative method for example GMRES method~\cite{saad86} and the Krylov subspace that we used is spanned by a basis $S$ composed of successive solutions issued from the inner iteration
+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.  The algorithm is implemented  as an
+inner-outer iteration  solver based  on iterative Krylov  methods. The  main key
+points of our solver are given in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}.
+
+In order to accelerate the convergence, the outer iteration is implemented as an
+iterative  Krylov method  which minimizes  some  error functions  over a  Krylov
+subspace~\cite{saad96}. At  each iteration, the  sparse linear system  $Ax=b$ is
+solved   iteratively    with   an   iterative   method,    for   example   GMRES
+method~\cite{saad86} or  some of its variants,  and the Krylov  subspace that we
+used is spanned by a basis  $S$ composed of successive solutions issued from the
+inner iteration

 \begin{equation}
   S = \{x^1, x^2, \ldots, x^s\} \text{,~} s\leq n.
 \end{equation} 
 \begin{equation}
   S = \{x^1, x^2, \ldots, x^s\} \text{,~} s\leq n.
 \end{equation} 

-The advantage of such a Krylov subspace is that we neither need an orthogonal basis nor any synchronization between processors to generate this basis. The algorithm is periodically restarted every $s$ iterations with a new initial guess $x=S\alpha$ which minimizes the residual norm $\|b-Ax\|_2$ over the Krylov subspace spanned by vectors of $S$, where $\alpha$ is a solution of the normal equations
+The advantage  of such a Krylov subspace  is that we neither  need an orthogonal
+basis nor  any synchronization  between processors to  generate this  basis. The
+algorithm  is periodically  restarted every  $s$ iterations  with a  new initial
+guess $x=S\alpha$ which minimizes the residual norm $\|b-Ax\|_2$ over the Krylov
+subspace spanned by  vectors of $S$, where $\alpha$ is a  solution of the normal
+equations

 \begin{equation}
   R^TR\alpha = R^Tb,
 \end{equation}
 \begin{equation}
   R^TR\alpha = R^Tb,
 \end{equation}


@@ -581,7 +637,11 @@ which is associated with the least-squares problem
    \underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2
 \label{eq:01}
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    \underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2
 \label{eq:01}
 \end{equation}

-such that $R=AS$ is a dense rectangular matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$, $s\ll n$, and $R^T$ denotes the transpose of matrix $R$. We use an iterative method to solve the least-squares problem~(\ref{eq:01}) as CGLS~\cite{hestenes52} or LSQR~\cite{paige82} methods which is more appropriate than a direct method in the parallel context.
+such  that $R=AS$  is a  dense rectangular  matrix in  $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$,
+$s\ll n$,  and $R^T$ denotes  the transpose of  matrix $R$. We use  an iterative
+method   to  solve   the  least-squares   problem~(\ref{eq:01})  such   as  CGLS
+~\cite{hestenes52}  or LSQR~\cite{paige82}  which  are more  appropriate than  a
+direct method in the parallel context.

 
 \begin{algorithm}[t]
 \caption{A Krylov two-stage algorithm}
 
 \begin{algorithm}[t]
 \caption{A Krylov two-stage algorithm}


@@ -589,29 +649,159 @@ such that $R=AS$ is a dense rectangular matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$, $s\l
   \Input $A$ (sparse matrix), $b$ (right-hand side)
   \Output $x$ (solution vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
   \State Set the initial guess $x^0$
   \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}
-    \State Solve iteratively $Ax^k=b$
-    \State Add vector $x^k$ to Krylov subspace basis $S$
+  \For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until convergence} \label{algo:conv}
+    \State Solve iteratively $Ax^k=b$  \label{algo:solve}
+    \State $S_{k~mod~s}=x^k$ 

     \If {$k$ mod $s=0$ {\bf and} not convergence}
       \State Compute dense matrix $R=AS$
       \State Solve least-squares problem $\underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2$
       \State Compute minimizer $x^k=S\alpha$
     \If {$k$ mod $s=0$ {\bf and} not convergence}
       \State Compute dense matrix $R=AS$
       \State Solve least-squares problem $\underset{\alpha\in\mathbb{R}^{s}}{min}\|b-R\alpha\|_2$
       \State Compute minimizer $x^k=S\alpha$

-      \State Reinitialize Krylov subspace basis $S$

     \EndIf
   \EndFor
 \end{algorithmic}
 \label{algo:01}
 \end{algorithm}
     \EndIf
   \EndFor
 \end{algorithmic}
 \label{algo:01}
 \end{algorithm}

+
+Operation $S_{k~  mod~ s}=x^k$ consists in  copying the residual  $x_k$ 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.
+

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-
+\section{Convergence results}
+\label{sec:04}

 
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-\label{sec:04}
+\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 is given.
+
+\begin{table}
+\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     & Computational fluid dynamics  & 525,825 & 2,100,225 \\
+epb3               & Thermal problem   & 84,617  & 463,625  \\
+atmosmodj          & Computational fluid dynamics  & 1,270,432 & 8,814,880 \\
+bfwa398            & Electromagnetics problem & 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     (line     \ref{algo:solve}    in
+Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}).   $s$ is  set to  8. CGLS  is chosen  to  minimize the
+least-squares  problem.  Two  conditions  are  used to  stop  CGLS,  either  the
+precision is under $1e-40$ or the  number of iterations is greater to $20$.  The
+external   precision    is   set    to   $1e-10$   (line    \ref{algo:conv}   in
+Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}).  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 the 2 stage  algorithm, the same solver
+and  the same  preconditionner  is used.   This  Table shows  that  the 2  stage
+algorithm  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}
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|c|c|r|r|r|r|} 
+\hline
+
+ \multirow{2}{*}{Matrix name}  & Solver /   & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{gmres variant} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage 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}
+
+
+
+
+Larger experiments ....
+
+\begin{table*}
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|} 
+\hline
+
+  nb. cores & precond   & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{gmres variant} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage CGLS} &  \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage 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 2 stage FGMRES algorithms for ex15 of Petsc with 25000 components per core on Juqueen (threshold 1e-3, restart=30, s=12),  time is expressed in seconds.}
+\label{tab:03}
+\end{center}
+\end{table*}
+
+
+\begin{table*}
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|r|} 
+\hline
+
+  nb. cores & threshold   & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{gmres variant} & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage CGLS} &  \multicolumn{2}{c|}{2 stage 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                  & 792.11 & 109,590 & 76.83  &  10,470  & 65.20  & 9,030  & 12.14 \\
+  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*}

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+future plan : \\
+- study other kinds of matrices, problems, inner solvers\\
+- adaptative number of outer iterations to minimize\\
+- other methods to minimize the residuals?\\
+- implement our solver inside PETSc
+

 
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-%The authors would like to thank...
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+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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