+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 sub-space~\cite{saad96}. At every iteration, the sparse linear system $Ax=b$ is solved iteratively with an iterative method as GMRES method~\cite{saad86} and the Krylov sub-space 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}
+The advantage of such a Krylov sub-space 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 sub-space spanned by vectors of $S$, where $\alpha$ is a solution of the normal equations
+\begin{equation}
+ R^TR\alpha = R^Tb,
+\end{equation}
+which is associated with the least-squares problem
+\begin{equation}
+ \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.
+
+\begin{algorithm}[t]
+\caption{A Krylov two-stage algorithm}
+\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}
+ \State Solve iteratively $Ax^k=b$
+ \State Add vector $x^k$ to Krylov sub-space basis $S$
+ \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 sub-space basis $S$
+ \EndIf
+ \EndFor
+\end{algorithmic}
+\label{algo:01}
+\end{algorithm}
