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@@ -38,9 +38,14 @@ classical GMRES both in terms of number of iterations and execution times.
 
 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.  When
-solving large  linear systems  with many cores,  iterative methods  often suffer
-from  scalability  problems.    This  is  due  to  their   need  for  collective
+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
