From 1b340b04ffddcee33acad4949f55a44d2eadf683 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lilia Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 02:33:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 10-01-2014 --- biblio.bib | 11 +++++++++++ krylov_multi.tex | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/biblio.bib b/biblio.bib index e45f5d6..79bc037 100644 --- a/biblio.bib +++ b/biblio.bib @@ -88,3 +88,14 @@ year = {1996}, address = {New York}, } + +@article{ref18, +title = {{P}arallel {I}terative {A}lgorithms: {F}rom {S}equential to {G}rid {C}omputing}, +author = {Bahi, Jacques M. and Contassot-Vivier, Sylvain and Couturier, Rapha{\"e}l}, +journal = {Chapman \& Hall/CRC Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing}, +volume = {}, +number = {}, +pages = {}, +year = {2008}, +} + diff --git a/krylov_multi.tex b/krylov_multi.tex index 48d9e2e..0ea51d8 100644 --- a/krylov_multi.tex +++ b/krylov_multi.tex @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ b & = & [B_{1}, \ldots, B_{L}] \right. \label{sec03:eq01} \end{equation} -where for $l\in\{1,\ldots,L\}$ $A_l$ is a rectangular block of size $n_l\times n$ +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 $n_l$, such that $\sum_ln_l=n$. In this case, we use a row-by-row splitting without overlapping in such a way that successive rows of the sparse matrix $A$ and both vectors $x$ and $b$ are assigned to one cluster. @@ -192,6 +192,29 @@ iteration method for solving the sub-systems~(\ref{sec03:eq03}). It is a well-kn iterative method which gives good performances for solving sparse linear systems in parallel on a cluster of processors. +It should be noted that the convergence of the inner iterative solver for the different +linear sub-systems~(\ref{sec03:eq03}) does not necessarily involve the convergence of the +multisplitting method. It strongly depends on the properties of the 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 paper, 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 implement 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 space of the method that we used is spanned by a basis composed of the solutions issued from +solving the $L$ splittings~(\ref{sec03:eq03}) +\begin{equation} +\{x^1,x^2,\ldots,x^s\},~s\ll n, +\label{sec03:eq04} +\end{equation} +where for $k\in\{1,\ldots,s\}$, $x^k=[X_1^k,\ldots,X_L^k]$ is a solution of the global linear +system. +%The advantage such a method is that the Krylov subspace does not need to be spanned by an orthogonal basis. +The advantage of such a method is that the Krylov subspace need neither to be spanned by an orthogonal +basis nor synchronizations between the different clusters to generate this basis. + -- 2.39.5