X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/GMRES2stage.git/blobdiff_plain/33840a9b66d39bd2d78f409b7e25a8339280e05a..34a7850bea7d50191ce0ab301b26d2c6d11ef2ff:/paper.tex diff --git a/paper.tex b/paper.tex index 08e7b8a..a4545fd 100644 --- a/paper.tex +++ b/paper.tex @@ -621,19 +621,20 @@ outer solver periodically applies a least-squares minimization on the residuals 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. +last obtained approximation. +GMRES method~\cite{Saad86}, or any of its variants, can potentially be used as +inner solver. The current approximation of the Krylov method is then stored inside a $n \times s$ matrix +$S$, which is composed by the $s$ last solutions that have been computed during +the inner iterations phase. -At each $s$ iterations, the minimization step is applied in order to +At each $s$ iterations, another kind of 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 $x=S\alpha$. +with $R=AS$. The new solution $x$ is then computed with $x=S\alpha$. In practice, $R$ is a dense rectangular matrix belonging in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times s}$, @@ -663,8 +664,8 @@ appropriate than a single direct method in a parallel context. \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 +Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} summarizes the principle of the proposed method. The outer +iteration is inside the \emph{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 @@ -1029,6 +1030,15 @@ In Table~\ref{tab:04}, some experiments with example ex54 on the Curie architect %%%********************************************************* %%%********************************************************* +A novel two-stage iterative algorithm has been proposed in this article, +in order to accelerate the convergence Krylov iterative methods. +Our TSIRM proposal acts as a merger between Krylov based solvers and +a least-squares minimization step. +The convergence of the method has been proven in some situations, while +experiments up to 16,394 cores have been led to verify that TSIRM runs +5 or 7 times faster than GMRES. + + For future work, the authors' intention is to investigate other kinds of matrices, problems, and inner solvers. The influence of all parameters must be tested too, while