+\author{Raphaël Couturier \and Lilia Ziane Khodja}
+
+\maketitle
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\begin{abstract}
+In this paper we revisit the krylov multisplitting algorithm presented in
+\cite{huang1993krylov} which uses a scalar method to minimize the krylov
+iterations computed by a multisplitting algorithm. Our new algorithm is based on
+a parallel multisplitting algorithm with few blocks of large size using a
+parallel GMRES method inside each block and on a parallel krylov minimization in
+order to improve the convergence. Some large scale experiments with a 3D Poisson
+problem are presented. They show the obtained improvements compared to a
+classical GMRES both in terms of number of iterations and execution times.
+\end{abstract}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\section{Introduction}
+Iterative methods are used to solve large sparse linear systems of equations of
+the form $Ax=b$ because they are easier to parallelize than direct ones. Many
+iterative methods have been proposed and adapted by many researchers. For
+example, the GMRES method and the Conjugate Gradient method are very well known
+and used by many researchers~\cite{S96}. Both the method are based on the
+Krylov subspace which consists in forming a basis of the sequence of successive
+matrix powers times the initial residual.
+
+When solving large linear systems with many cores, iterative methods often
+suffer from scalability problems. This is due to their need for collective
+communications to perform matrix-vector products and reduction operations.
+Preconditionners can be used in order to increase the convergence of iterative
+solvers. However, most of the good preconditionners are not sclalable when
+thousands of cores are used.
+
+Traditional iterative solvers have global synchronizations that penalize the
+scalability. Two possible solutions consists either in using asynchronous
+iterative methods~\cite{ref18} or to use multisplitting algorithms. In this
+paper, we will reconsider the use of a multisplitting method. In opposition to
+traditionnal multisplitting method that suffer from slow convergence, as
+proposed in~\cite{huang1993krylov}, the use of a minimization process can
+drastically improve the convergence.
+
+\LZK[]{Suite\dots}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\section{Related works}
+A general framework for studying parallel multisplitting has been presented in~\cite{o1985multi}
+by O'Leary and White. Convergence conditions are given for the
+most general case. Many authors improved multisplitting algorithms by proposing
+for example an asynchronous version~\cite{bru1995parallel} and convergence
+conditions~\cite{bai1999block,bahi2000asynchronous} in this case or other
+two-stage algorithms~\cite{frommer1992h,bru1995parallel}.
+
+In~\cite{huang1993krylov}, the authors proposed a parallel multisplitting
+algorithm in which all the tasks except one are devoted to solve a sub-block of
+the splitting and to send their local solution to the first task which is in
+charge to combine the vectors at each iteration. These vectors form a Krylov
+basis for which the first task minimizes the error function over the basis to
+increase the convergence, then the other tasks receive the updated solution until
+convergence of the global system.
+
+In~\cite{couturier2008gremlins}, the authors proposed practical implementations
+of multisplitting algorithms that take benefit from multisplitting algorithms\LZK[]{répétition ???} to
+solve large scale linear systems. Inner solvers could be based on scalar direct
+method with the LU method or scalar iterative one with GMRES.\LZK[]{lu et gmres par exemple}
+
+In~\cite{prace-multi}, the authors have proposed a parallel multisplitting
+algorithm in which large blocks are solved using a GMRES solver. The authors have
+performed large scale experiments up-to 32,768 cores and they conclude that
+asynchronous multisplitting algorithm could be more efficient than traditional
+solvers on exascale architecture with hundreds of thousands of cores.
+
+\LZK[]{Peut-être autres related works\ldots}\\
+
+The key idea of a multisplitting method to solve a large system of linear equations $Ax=b$ is defined as follows. The first step consists in partitioning the matrix $A$ in $L$ several ways
+\begin{equation}
+A = M_l - N_l,
+\label{eq01}
+\end{equation}
+where for all $l\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$ $M_l$ are non-singular matrices. Then the linear system is solved by iteration based on the obtained splittings as follows
+\begin{equation}
+x^{k+1}=\displaystyle\sum^L_{l=1} E_l M^{-1}_l (N_l x^k + b),~k=1,2,3,\ldots
+\label{eq02}
+\end{equation}
+where $E_l$ are non-negative and diagonal weighting matrices and their sum is an identity matrix $I$. The convergence of such a method is dependent on the condition
+\begin{equation}
+\rho(\displaystyle\sum^L_{l=1}E_l M^{-1}_l N_l)<1.
+\label{eq03}
+\end{equation}
+where $\rho$ is the spectral radius of the square matrix.
+
+The advantage of the multisplitting method is that at each iteration $k$ there are $L$ different linear sub-systems
+\begin{equation}
+v_l^k=M^{-1}_l N_l x_l^{k-1} + M^{-1}_l b,~l\in\{1,\ldots,L\},
+\label{eq04}
+\end{equation}
+to be solved independently by a direct or an iterative method, where $v_l^k$ is the solution of the local sub-system. Thus the computations of $\{v_l\}_{1\leq l\leq L}$ may be performed in parallel by a set of processors. A multisplitting method using an iterative method as an inner solver is called an inner-outer iterative method or a two-stage method. The results $v_l$ obtained from the different splittings~(\ref{eq04}) are combined to compute solution $x$ of the linear system by using the diagonal weighting matrices
+\begin{equation}
+x^k = \displaystyle\sum^L_{l=1} E_l v_l^k,
+\label{eq05}
+\end{equation}
+In the case where the diagonal weighting matrices $E_l$ have only zero and one factors (i.e. $v_l$ are disjoint vectors), the multisplitting method is non-overlapping and corresponds to the block Jacobi method.
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\section{A two-stage method with a minimization}
+Let $Ax=b$ be a given large and sparse linear system of $n$ equations to solve in parallel on $L$ clusters of processors, physically adjacent or geographically distant, where $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ is a square and non-singular matrix, $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$ is the solution vector and $b\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$ is the right-hand side vector. The multisplitting of this linear system is defined as follows
+\begin{equation}
+\left\{
+\begin{array}{lll}
+A & = & [A_{1}, \ldots, A_{L}]\\
+x & = & [X_{1}, \ldots, X_{L}]\\
+b & = & [B_{1}, \ldots, B_{L}]
+\end{array}
+\right.
+\label{sec03:eq01}
+\end{equation}
+where for $l\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$, $A_l$ is a rectangular block of size $n_l\times n$ and $X_l$ and $B_l$ are sub-vectors of size $n_l$ each, such that $\sum_ln_l=n$. In this work, we use a row-by-row splitting without overlapping in such a way that successive rows of sparse matrix $A$ and both vectors $x$ and $b$ are assigned to one cluster. So, the multisplitting format of the linear system is defined as follows
+\begin{equation}
+\forall l\in\{1,\ldots,L\} \mbox{,~} \displaystyle\sum_{m=1}^{l-1}A_{lm}X_m + A_{ll}X_l + \displaystyle\sum_{m=l+1}^{L}A_{lm}X_m = B_l,
+\label{sec03:eq02}
+\end{equation}
+where $A_{lm}$ is a sub-block of size $n_l\times n_m$ of the rectangular matrix $A_l$, $X_m\neq X_l$ is a sub-vector of size $n_m$ of the solution vector $x$ and $\sum_{m\neq l}n_m+n_l=n$, for all $m\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$.
+
+Our multisplitting method proceeds by iteration for solving the linear system in such a way each sub-system
+\begin{equation}
+\left\{
+\begin{array}{l}
+A_{ll}X_l = Y_l \mbox{,~such that}\\
+Y_l = B_l - \displaystyle\sum_{\substack{m=1\\m\neq l}}^{L}A_{lm}X_m,
+\end{array}
+\right.
+\label{sec03:eq03}
+\end{equation}
+is solved independently by a {\it cluster of processors} and communication are required to update the right-hand side vectors $Y_l$, such that the vectors $X_m$ represent the data dependencies between the clusters. In this work, we use the parallel GMRES method~\cite{ref34} as an inner iteration method to solve sub-systems~(\ref{sec03:eq03}). GMRES is one of the most used Krylov iterative methods to solve sparse linear systems in parallel on clusters of processors. In practice, GMRES is used with a preconditioner to improve its convergence. In this work, we used a preconditioning matrix equivalent to the main diagonal of sparse sub-matrix $A_{ll}$. This preconditioner is straightforward to implement in parallel and gives good performances in many situations.
+
+It should be noted that the convergence of the inner iterative solver for the different sub-systems~(\ref{sec03:eq03}) does not necessarily involve the convergence of the multisplitting method. It strongly depends on the properties of the global sparse linear system to be solved and the computing environment~\cite{o1985multi,ref18}. Furthermore, the multisplitting
+of the linear system among several clusters of processors increases the spectral radius of the iteration matrix, thereby slowing the convergence. In this work, we based on the work presented in~\cite{huang1993krylov} to increase the convergence and improve the scalability of the multisplitting methods.
+
+In order to accelerate the convergence, we implemented the outer iteration of the multisplitting solver as a Krylov subspace method which minimizes some error function over a Krylov subspace~\cite{S96}. The Krylov subspace that we used is spanned by a basis composed of successive solutions issued from solving the $L$ splittings~(\ref{sec03:eq03})
+\begin{equation}
+S=\{x^1,x^2,\ldots,x^s\},~s\leq n,
+\label{sec03:eq04}
+\end{equation}
+where for $j\in\{1,\ldots,s\}$, $x^j=[X_1^j,\ldots,X_L^j]$ is a solution of the global linear system. The advantage of such a Krylov subspace is that we need neither an orthogonal basis nor synchronizations between clusters to generate this basis.
+
+The multisplitting method is periodically restarted every $s$ iterations with a new initial guess $\tilde{x}=S\alpha$ which minimizes the error function $\|b-Ax\|_2$ over the Krylov subspace spanned by vectors of $S$. So $\alpha$ is defined as the solution of the large overdetermined linear system
+\begin{equation}
+R\alpha=b,
+\label{sec03:eq05}
+\end{equation}
+where $R=AS$ is a dense rectangular matrix of size $n\times s$ and $s\ll n$. This leads us to solve a system of normal equations
+\begin{equation}
+R^TR\alpha=R^Tb,
+\label{sec03:eq06}
+\end{equation}
+which is associated with the least squares problem
+\begin{equation}
+\text{minimize}~\|b-R\alpha\|_2,
+\label{sec03:eq07}
+\end{equation}
+where $R^T$ denotes the transpose of the matrix $R$. Since $R$ (i.e. $AS$) and $b$ are split among $L$ clusters, the symmetric positive definite system~(\ref{sec03:eq06}) is solved in parallel. Thus an iterative method would be more appropriate than a direct one to solve this system. We use the parallel conjugate gradient method for the normal equations CGNR~\cite{S96,refCGNR}.
+
+\begin{algorithm}[!t]
+\caption{A two-stage linear solver with inner iteration GMRES method}
+\begin{algorithmic}[1]
+\Input $A_l$ (sparse sub-matrix), $B_l$ (right-hand side sub-vector)
+\Output $X_l$ (solution sub-vector)\vspace{0.2cm}
+\State Load $A_l$, $B_l$
+\State Initialize the initial guess $x^0$
+\State Set the minimizer $\tilde{x}^0=x^0$
+\For {$k=1,2,3,\ldots$ until the global convergence}
+\State Restart with $x^0=\tilde{x}^{k-1}$:
+\For {$j=1,2,\ldots,s$}
+\State Inner iteration solver: \Call{InnerSolver}{$x^0$, $j$}
+\State Construct basis $S$: add column vector $X_l^j$ to the matrix $S_l^k$
+\State Exchange local values of $X_l^j$ with the neighboring clusters
+\State Compute dense matrix $R$: $R_l^{k,j}=\sum^L_{i=1}A_{li}X_i^j$
+\EndFor
+\State Minimization $\|b-R\alpha\|_2$: \Call{UpdateMinimizer}{$S_l$, $R$, $b$, $k$}
+\State Local solution of the linear system $Ax=b$: $X_l^k=\tilde{X}_l^k$
+\State Exchange the local minimizer $\tilde{X}_l^k$ with the neighboring clusters
+\EndFor
+
+\Statex
+
+\Function {InnerSolver}{$x^0$, $j$}
+\State Compute local right-hand side $Y_l = B_l - \sum^L_{\substack{m=1\\m\neq l}}A_{lm}X_m^0$
+\State Solving local splitting $A_{ll}X_l^j=Y_l$ using parallel GMRES method, such that $X_l^0$ is the initial guess
+\State \Return $X_l^j$
+\EndFunction
+
+\Statex
+
+\Function {UpdateMinimizer}{$S_l$, $R$, $b$, $k$}
+\State Solving normal equations $(R^k)^TR^k\alpha^k=(R^k)^Tb$ in parallel by $L$ clusters using parallel CGNR method
+\State Compute local minimizer $\tilde{X}_l^k=S_l^k\alpha^k$
+\State \Return $\tilde{X}_l^k$
+\EndFunction
+\end{algorithmic}
+\label{algo:01}
+\end{algorithm}
+
+The main key points of our multisplitting method to solve a large sparse linear system are given in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}. This algorithm is based on a two-stage method with a minimization using GMRES iterative method as an inner solver. It is executed in parallel by each cluster of processors. Matrices and vectors with the subscript $l$ represent the local data for cluster $l$, where $l\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$. The two-stage solver uses two different parallel iterative algorithms: GMRES method to solve each splitting~(\ref{sec03:eq03}) on a cluster of processors, and CGNR method executed in parallel by all clusters to minimize the function error~(\ref{sec03:eq07}) over the Krylov subspace spanned by $S$. The algorithm requires two global synchronizations between $L$ clusters. The first one is performed at line~$12$ in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01} to exchange local values of vector solution $x$ (i.e. the minimizer $\tilde{x}$) required to restart the multisplitting solver. The second one is needed to construct the matrix $R$ of the Krylov subspace. We chose to perform this latter synchronization $s$ times in every outer iteration $k$ (line~$7$ in Algorithm~\ref{algo:01}). This is a straightforward way to compute the sparse matrix-dense matrix multiplication $R=AS$. We implemented all synchronizations by using message passing collective communications of MPI library.
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\section{Experiments}
+In order to illustrate the interest of our algorithm. We have compared our
+algorithm with the GMRES method which is a very well used method in many
+situations. We have chosen to focus on only one problem which is very simple to
+implement: a 3 dimension Poisson problem.
+
+\begin{equation}
+\left\{
+ \begin{array}{ll}
+ \nabla u&=f \mbox{~in~} \omega\\
+ u &=0 \mbox{~on~} \Gamma=\partial \omega
+ \end{array}
+ \right.
+\end{equation}
+
+After discretization, with a finite difference scheme, a seven point stencil is
+used. It is well-known that the spectral radius of matrices representing such
+problems are very close to 1. Moreover, the larger the number of discretization
+points is, the closer to 1 the spectral radius is. Hence, to solve a matrix
+obtained for a 3D Poisson problem, the number of iterations is high. Using a
+preconditioner it is possible to reduce the number of iterations but
+preconditioners are not scalable when using many cores.
+
+Doing many experiments with many cores is not easy and requires to access to a
+supercomputer with several hours for developing a code and then improving
+it. In the following we presented some experiments we could achieved out on the
+Hector architecture, the previous UK's high-end computing resource, funded by
+the UK Research Councils, which has been stopped in the early 2014.
+
+In the experiments we report the size of the 3D poisson considered\LZK[]{Suite\dots ?}
+
+
+The first column shows the size of the problem The size is chosen in order to
+have approximately 50,000 components per core. The second column represents the
+number of cores used. In parenthesis, there is the decomposition used for the
+Krylov multisplitting. The third column and the sixth column respectively show
+the execution time for the GMRES and the Kyrlow multisplitting code. The fourth
+and the seventh column describes the number of iterations. For the
+multisplitting code, the total number of inner iterations is represented in
+parenthesis.
+
+ We also give the other parameters: the restart for the GRMES method....
+
+\begin{table}[p]
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|c|c||c|c|c||c|c|c||c|}
+\hline
+\multirow{2}{*}{Pb size}&\multirow{2}{*}{Nb. cores} & \multicolumn{3}{c||}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{3}{c||}{Krylov Multisplitting} & \multirow{2}{*}{Ratio}\\
+ \cline{3-8}
+ & & Time (s) & nb Iter. & $\Delta$ & Time (s)& nb Iter. & $\Delta$ & \\
+\hline
+
+$590^3$ & 4096 (2x2048) & 433.1 & 55,494 & 4.92e-7 & 74.1 & 1,101(8,211) & 6.62e-08 & 5.84 \\
+\hline
+$743^3$ & 8192 (2x4096) & 704.4 & 87,822 & 4.80e-07 & 151.2 & 3,061(14,914) & 5.87e-08 & 4.65 \\
+\hline
+$743^3$ & 8192 (4x2048) & 704.4 & 87,822 & 4.80e-07 & 110.3 & 1,531(12,721) & 1.47e-07& 6.39 \\
+\hline
+
+\end{tabular}
+\caption{Results without preconditioner}
+\label{tab1}
+\end{center}
+\end{table}
+
+
+\begin{table}[p]
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{|c|c||c|c|c||c|c|c||c|}
+\hline
+\multirow{2}{*}{Pb size}&\multirow{2}{*}{Nb. cores} & \multicolumn{3}{c||}{GMRES} & \multicolumn{3}{c||}{Krylov Multisplitting} & \multirow{2}{*}{Ratio}\\
+ \cline{3-8}
+ & & Time (s) & nb Iter. & $\Delta$ & Time (s)& nb Iter. & $\Delta$ & \\
+\hline
+
+$590^3$ & 4096 (2x2048) & 433.0 & 55,494 & 4.92e-7 & 80.4 & 1,091(9,545) & 7.64e-08 & 5.39 \\
+\hline
+$743^3$ & 8192 (2x4096) & 704.4 & 87,822 & 4.80e-07 & 110.2 & 1,401(12,379) & 1.11e-07 & 6.39 \\
+\hline
+$743^3$ & 8192 (4x2048) & 704.4 & 87,822 & 4.80e-07 & 139.8 & 1,891(15,960) & 1.60e-07& 5.03 \\
+\hline
+
+\end{tabular}
+\caption{Results with preconditioner}
+\label{tab2}
+\end{center}
+\end{table}
+
+\section{Conclusion and perspectives}
+
+Other applications (=> other matrices)\\
+Larger experiments\\
+Async\\
+Overlapping
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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