DK: z_i^{k+1}=z_{i}^{k}-\frac{P(z_i^{k})}{\prod_{i\neq j}(z_i^{k}-z_j^{k})}, i = 1, . . . , n,
\end{equation}
%%\end{center}
-where $z_i^k$ is the $i^{th}$ root of the polynomial $P$ at the
+where $z_i^k$ is the $i^{th}$ root of the polynomial $p$ at the
iteration $k$.
EA: z_i^{k+1}=z_i^{k}-\frac{1}{{\frac {P'(z_i^{k})} {P(z_i^{k})}}-{\sum_{i\neq j}\frac{1}{(z_i^{k}-z_j^{k})}}}, i = 1, . . . , n,
\end{equation}
%%\end{center}
-where $P'(z)$ is the polynomial derivative of $P$ evaluated in the
+where $p'(z)$ is the polynomial derivative of $p$ evaluated in the
point $z$.
Aberth, Ehrlich and Farmer-Loizou~\cite{Loizou83} have proved that
diverges, but the first two methods have speed-up equal to 5.5. Later,
Freeman and Bane~\cite{Freemanall90} considered asynchronous
algorithms, in which each processor continues to update its
-approximations even though the latest values of other $z_i((k))$
+approximations even though the latest values of other $z_i^{k}$
have not been received from the other processors, in contrast with synchronous algorithms where it would wait those values before making a new iteration.
Couturier and al.~\cite{Raphaelall01} proposed two methods of parallelization for
a shared memory architecture and for distributed memory one. They were able to
-compute the roots of sparse polynomials of degree 10000 in 430 seconds with only 8
+compute the roots of sparse polynomials of degree 10,000 in 430 seconds with only 8
personal computers and 2 communications per iteration. Comparing to the sequential implementation
-where it takes up to 3300 seconds to obtain the same results, the authors show an interesting speedup.
+where it takes up to 3,300 seconds to obtain the same results, the authors show an interesting speedup.
Very few works had been performed since this last work until the appearing of
the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)~\cite{CUDA10}, a
Durand-Kerner method on GPU. Their main
result showed that a parallel CUDA implementation is about 10 times faster than
the sequential implementation on a single CPU for sparse
-polynomials of degree 48000.
+polynomials of degree 48,000.
In this paper, we focus on the implementation of the Ehrlich-Aberth
method for high degree polynomials on GPU. We propose an adaptation of
the exponential logarithm in order to be able to solve sparse and full
polynomial of degree up to $1,000,000$. The paper is organized as
-follows. Initially, we recall the Ehrlich-Aberth method in Section
-\ref{sec1}. Improvements for the Ehrlich-Aberth method are proposed in
-Section \ref{sec2}. Related work to the implementation of simultaneous
-methods using a parallel approach is presented in Section
-\ref{secStateofArt}. In Section \ref{sec5} we propose a parallel
+follows. Initially, we recall the Ehrlich-Aberth method in
+Section~\ref{sec1}. Improvements for the Ehrlich-Aberth method are
+proposed in Section \ref{sec2}. Related work to the implementation of
+simultaneous methods using a parallel approach is presented in Section
+\ref{secStateofArt}. In Section~\ref{sec5} we propose a parallel
implementation of the Ehrlich-Aberth method on GPU and discuss
-it. Section \ref{sec6} presents and investigates our implementation
-and experimental study results. Finally, Section\ref{sec7} 6 concludes
+it. Section~\ref{sec6} presents and investigates our implementation
+and experimental study results. Finally, Section~\ref{sec7} concludes
this paper and gives some hints for future research directions in this
topic.
-\section{The Sequential Ehrlich-Aberth method}
+\section{Ehrlich-Aberth method}
\label{sec1}
A cubically convergent iteration method for finding zeros of
-polynomials was proposed by O. Aberth~\cite{Aberth73}. In the
-following we present the main stages of our implementation the Ehrlich-Aberth method.
+polynomials was proposed by O. Aberth~\cite{Aberth73}. The Ehrlich-Aberth method contain 4 main steps, presented in the following.
%The Aberth method is a purely algebraic derivation.
%To illustrate the derivation, we let $w_{i}(z)$ be the product of linear factors
\subsection{Polynomials Initialization}
-The initialization of a polynomial p(z) is done by setting each of the $n$ complex coefficients $a_{i}$:
+The initialization of a polynomial $p(z)$ is done by setting each of the $n$ complex coefficients $a_{i}$:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:SimplePolynome}
\end{equation}
-\subsection{Vector $z^{(0)}$ Initialization}
-
-As for any iterative method, we need to choose $n$ initial guess points $z^{(0)}_{i}, i = 1, . . . , n.$
+\subsection{Vector $Z^{(0)}$ Initialization}
+\label{sec:vec_initialization}
+As for any iterative method, we need to choose $n$ initial guess points $z^{0}_{i}, i = 1, . . . , n.$
The initial guess is very important since the number of steps needed by the iterative method to reach
a given approximation strongly depends on it.
In~\cite{Aberth73} the Ehrlich-Aberth iteration is started by selecting $n$
\begin{equation}
\label{Eq:Hi}
-EA2: z^{k+1}=z_{i}^{k}-\frac{\frac{p(z_{i}^{k})}{p'(z_{i}^{k})}}
-{1-\frac{p(z_{i}^{k})}{p'(z_{i}^{k})}\sum_{j=1,j\neq i}^{j=n}{\frac{1}{(z_{i}^{k}-z_{j}^{k})}}}, i=0,. . . .,n
+EA2: z^{k+1}_{i}=z_{i}^{k}-\frac{\frac{p(z_{i}^{k})}{p'(z_{i}^{k})}}
+{1-\frac{p(z_{i}^{k})}{p'(z_{i}^{k})}\sum_{j=1,j\neq i}^{j=n}{\frac{1}{(z_{i}^{k}-z_{j}^{k})}}}, i=1,. . . .,n
\end{equation}
It can be noticed that this equation is equivalent to Eq.~\ref{Eq:EA},
but we prefer the latter one because we can use it to improve the
Ehrlich-Aberth method and find the roots of very high degrees polynomials. More
-details are given in Section ~\ref{sec2}.
+details are given in Section~\ref{sec2}.
\subsection{Convergence Condition}
The convergence condition determines the termination of the algorithm. It consists in stopping the iterative function when the roots are sufficiently stable. We consider that the method converges sufficiently when:
\end{equation}
-\section{Improving the Ehrlich-Aberth Method for high degree polynomials with exp.log formulation}
+\section{Improving the Ehrlich-Aberth Method for high degree polynomials with exp-log formulation}
\label{sec2}
With high degree polynomial, the Ehrlich-Aberth method implementation,
as well as the Durand-Kerner implement, suffers from overflow problems. This
situation occurs, for instance, in the case where a polynomial
having positive coefficients and a large degree is computed at a
-point $\xi$ where $|\xi| > 1$, where $|x|$ stands for the modolus of a complex $x$. Indeed, the limited number in the
-mantissa of floating points representations makes the computation of p(z) wrong when z
+point $\xi$ where $|\xi| > 1$, where $|z|$ stands for the modolus of a complex $z$. Indeed, the limited number in the
+mantissa of floating points representations makes the computation of $p(z)$ wrong when z
is large. For example $(10^{50}) +1+ (- 10^{50})$ will give the wrong result
of $0$ instead of $1$. Consequently, we can not compute the roots
for large degrees. This problem was early discussed in
Using the logarithm (eq.~\ref{deflncomplex}) and the exponential (eq.~\ref{defexpcomplex}) operators, we can replace any multiplications and divisions with additions and subtractions. Consequently, computations
manipulate lower absolute values and the roots for large polynomial's degrees can be looked for successfully~\cite{Karimall98}.
-Applying this solution for the Ehrlich-Aberth method we obtain the
-iteration function with exponential and logarithm:
+Applying this solution for the iteration function Eq.~\ref{Eq:Hi} of Ehrlich-Aberth method, we obtain the iteration function with exponential and logarithm:
%%$$ \exp \bigl( \ln(p(z)_{k})-ln(\ln(p(z)_{k}^{'}))- \ln(1- \exp(\ln(p(z)_{k})-ln(\ln(p(z)_{k}^{'})+\ln\sum_{i\neq j}^{n}\frac{1}{z_{k}-z_{j}})$$
\begin{equation}
\label{Log_H2}
-EA.EL: z^{k+1}=z_{i}^{k}-\exp \left(\ln \left(
-p(z_{i}^{k})\right)-\ln\left(p'(z^{k}_{i})\right)- \ln
-\left(1-Q(z^{k}_{i})\right)\right),
+EA.EL: z^{k+1}_{i}=z_{i}^{k}-\exp \left(\ln \left(
+p(z_{i}^{k})\right)-\ln\left(p'(z^{k}_{i})\right)- \ln\left(1-Q(z^{k}_{i})\right)\right),
\end{equation}
where:
\begin{equation}
\label{Log_H1}
Q(z^{k}_{i})=\exp\left( \ln (p(z^{k}_{i}))-\ln(p'(z^{k}_{i}))+\ln \left(
-\sum_{k\neq j}^{n}\frac{1}{z^{k}_{i}-z^{k}_{j}}\right)\right).
+\sum_{i\neq j}^{n}\frac{1}{z^{k}_{i}-z^{k}_{j}}\right)\right)i=1,...,n,
+\end{equation}
+
+This solution is applied when the root except the circle unit, represented by the radius $R$ evaluated in C language as :
+\begin{equation}
+\label{R.EL}
+R = exp(log(DBL\_MAX)/(2*n) );
\end{equation}
-This solution is applied when the root except the circle unit, represented by the radius $R$ evaluated in C language as:
-\begin{verbatim}
-R = exp(log(DBL_MAX)/(2*n) );
-\end{verbatim}
%\begin{equation}
finding algorithms. The first approach aims at reducing the total number of
iterations as by Miranker
~\cite{Mirankar68,Mirankar71}, Schedler~\cite{Schedler72} and
-Winogard~\cite{Winogard72}. The second approach aims at reducing the
+Winograd~\cite{Winogard72}. The second approach aims at reducing the
computation time per iteration, as reported
in~\cite{Benall68,Jana06,Janall99,Riceall06}.
cause a high degree of memory conflict. Recently the author
in~\cite{Mirankar71} proposed two versions of parallel algorithm
for the Durand-Kerner method, and Ehrlich-Aberth method on a model of
-Optoelectronic Transpose Interconnection System (OTIS).The
-algorithms are mapped on an OTIS-2D torus using N processors. This
-solution needs N processors to compute N roots, which is not
+Optoelectronic Transpose Interconnection System (OTIS). The
+algorithms are mapped on an OTIS-2D torus using $N$ processors. This
+solution needs $N$ processors to compute $N$ roots, which is not
practical for solving polynomials with large degrees.
%Until very recently, the literature did not mention implementations
%able to compute the roots of large degree polynomials (higher then
of a root finding method on GPUs, that of the Durand-Kerner method. The main result showed
that a parallel CUDA implementation is 10 times as fast as the
sequential implementation on a single CPU for high degree
-polynomials of 48000.
+polynomials of 48,000.
%In this paper we present a parallel implementation of Ehrlich-Aberth
%method on GPUs for sparse and full polynomials with high degree (up
%to $1,000,000$).
-\subsection{Sequential Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm}
-The main steps of Ehrlich-Aberth method are shown in Algorithm.~\ref{alg1-seq} :
-%\LinesNumbered
-\begin{algorithm}[H]
-\label{alg1-seq}
+%% \subsection{Sequential Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm}
+%% The main steps of Ehrlich-Aberth method are shown in Algorithm.~\ref{alg1-seq} :
+%% %\LinesNumbered
+%% \begin{algorithm}[H]
+%% \label{alg1-seq}
-\caption{A sequential algorithm to find roots with the Ehrlich-Aberth method}
+%% \caption{A sequential algorithm to find roots with the Ehrlich-Aberth method}
-\KwIn{$Z^{0}$ (Initial root's vector), $\varepsilon$ (error tolerance
- threshold), P (Polynomial to solve), $\Delta z_{max}$ (maximum value
- of stop condition), k (number of iteration), n (Polynomial's degrees)}
-\KwOut {Z (The solution root's vector), ZPrec (the previous solution root's vector)}
+%% \KwIn{$Z^{0}$ (Initial root's vector), $\varepsilon$ (error tolerance
+%% threshold), $P$ (Polynomial to solve),$Pu$ (the derivative of P) $\Delta z_{max}$ (maximum value
+%% of stop condition), k (number of iteration), n (Polynomial's degrees)}
+%% \KwOut {$Z$ (The solution root's vector), $ZPrec$ (the previous solution root's vector)}
-\BlankLine
+%% \BlankLine
-Initialization of the coefficients of the polynomial to solve\;
-Initialization of the solution vector $Z^{0}$\;
-$\Delta z_{max}=0$\;
- k=0\;
+%% Initialization of $P$\;
+%% Initialization of $Pu$\;
+%% Initialization of the solution vector $Z^{0}$\;
+%% $\Delta z_{max}=0$\;
+%% k=0\;
-\While {$\Delta z_{max} > \varepsilon$}{
- Let $\Delta z_{max}=0$\;
-\For{$j \gets 0 $ \KwTo $n$}{
-$ZPrec\left[j\right]=Z\left[j\right]$;// save Z at the iteration k.\
+%% \While {$\Delta z_{max} > \varepsilon$}{
+%% Let $\Delta z_{max}=0$\;
+%% \For{$j \gets 0 $ \KwTo $n$}{
+%% $ZPrec\left[j\right]=Z\left[j\right]$;// save Z at the iteration k.\
-$Z\left[j\right]=H\left(j,Z\right)$;//update Z with the iterative function.\
-}
-k=k+1\;
+%% $Z\left[j\right]=H\left(j, Z, P, Pu\right)$;//update Z with the iterative function.\
+%% }
+%% k=k+1\;
-\For{$i \gets 0 $ \KwTo $n-1$}{
-$c= testConverge(\Delta z_{max},ZPrec\left[j\right],Z\left[j\right])$\;
-\If{$c > \Delta z_{max}$ }{
-$\Delta z_{max}$=c\;}
-}
+%% \For{$i \gets 0 $ \KwTo $n-1$}{
+%% $c= testConverge(\Delta z_{max},ZPrec\left[j\right],Z\left[j\right])$\;
+%% \If{$c > \Delta z_{max}$ }{
+%% $\Delta z_{max}$=c\;}
+%% }
-}
-\end{algorithm}
+%% }
+%% \end{algorithm}
-~\\
-In this sequential algorithm, one CPU thread executes all the steps. Let us look to the $3^{rd}$ step i.e. the execution of the iterative function, 2 sub-steps are needed. The first sub-step \textit{save}s the solution vector of the previous iteration, the second sub-step \textit{update}s or computes the new values of the roots vector.
-There exists two ways to execute the iterative function that we call a Jacobi one and a Gauss-Seidel one. With the Jacobi iteration, at iteration $k+1$ we need all the previous values $z^{(k)}_{i}$ to compute the new values $z^{(k+1)}_{i}$, that is :
+%% ~\\
+%% In this sequential algorithm, one CPU thread executes all the steps. Let us look to the $3^{rd}$ step i.e. the execution of the iterative function, 2 sub-steps are needed. The first sub-step \textit{save}s the solution vector of the previous iteration, the second sub-step \textit{update}s or computes the new values of the roots vector.
+
+\subsection{Parallel implementation with CUDA }
+
+In order to implement the Ehrlich-Aberth method in CUDA, it is
+possible to use the Jacobi scheme or the Gauss-Seidel one. With the
+Jacobi iteration, at iteration $k+1$ we need all the previous values
+$z^{k}_{i}$ to compute the new values $z^{k+1}_{i}$, that is :
\begin{equation}
-EAJ: z^{k+1}_{i}=\frac{p(z^{k}_{i})}{p'(z^{k}_{i})-p(z^{k}_{i})\sum^{n}_{j=1 j\neq i}\frac{1}{z^{k}_{i}-z^{k}_{j}}}, i=1,...,n.
+EAJ: z^{k+1}_{i}=z_{i}^{k}-\frac{\frac{p(z_{i}^{k})}{p'(z_{i}^{k})}}
+{1-\frac{p(z_{i}^{k})}{p'(z_{i}^{k})}\sum_{j=1,j\neq i}^{j=n}{\frac{1}{(z_{i}^{k}-z_{j}^{k})}}}, i=1,. . . .,n.
\end{equation}
With the Gauss-Seidel iteration, we have:
+%\begin{equation}
+%\label{eq:Aberth-H-GS}
+%EAGS: z^{k+1}_{i}=\frac{p(z^{k}_{i})}{p'(z^{k}_{i})-p(z^{k}_{i})(\sum^{i-1}_{j=1}\frac{1}{z^{k}_{i}-z^{k+1}_{j}}+\sum^{n}_{j=i+1}\frac{1}{z^{k}_{i}-z^{k}_{j}})}, i=1,...,n.
+%\end{equation}
+
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:Aberth-H-GS}
-EAGS: z^{k+1}_{i}=\frac{p(z^{k}_{i})}{p'(z^{k}_{i})-p(z^{k}_{i})(\sum^{i-1}_{j=1}\frac{1}{z^{k}_{i}-z^{k+1}_{j}}+\sum^{n}_{j=i+1}\frac{1}{z^{k}_{i}-z^{k}_{j}})}, i=1,...,n.
+EAGS: z^{k+1}_{i}=z_{i}^{k}-\frac{\frac{p(z_{i}^{k})}{p'(z_{i}^{k})}}
+{1-\frac{p(z_{i}^{k})}{p'(z_{i}^{k})}(\sum^{i-1}_{j=1}\frac{1}{z^{k}_{i}-z^{k+1}_{j}}+\sum_{j=i+1}^{j=n}{\frac{1}{(z_{i}^{k}-z_{j}^{k})}})}, i=1,. . . .,n
\end{equation}
-%%Here a finiched my revision %%
-Using Equation.~\ref{eq:Aberth-H-GS} to update the vector solution
+
+Using Eq.~\ref{eq:Aberth-H-GS} to update the vector solution
\textit{Z}, we expect the Gauss-Seidel iteration to converge more
quickly because, just as any Jacobi algorithm (for solving linear systems of equations), it uses the most fresh computed roots $z^{k+1}_{i}$.
-The $4^{th}$ step of the algorithm checks the convergence condition using Equation.~\ref{eq:Aberth-Conv-Cond}.
-Both steps 3 and 4 use 1 thread to compute all the $n$ roots on CPU, which is very harmful for performance in case of the large degree polynomials.
+%The $4^{th}$ step of the algorithm checks the convergence condition using Eq.~\ref{eq:Aberth-Conv-Cond}.
+%Both steps 3 and 4 use 1 thread to compute all the $n$ roots on CPU, which is very harmful for performance in case of the large degree polynomials.
-\subsection{Parallel implementation with CUDA }
-On the CPU, both steps 3 and 4 contain the loop \verb=for= and a single thread executes all the instructions in the loop $n$ times. In this subsection, we explain how the GPU architecture can compute this loop and reduce the execution time.
-In the GPU, the scheduler assigns the execution of this loop to a
-group of threads organised as a grid of blocks with block containing a
-number of threads. All threads within a block are executed
-concurrently in parallel. The instructions run on the GPU are grouped
-in special function called kernels. With CUDA, a programmer must
-describe the kernel execution context: the size of the Grid, the number of blocks and the number of threads per block.
+
+%On the CPU, both steps 3 and 4 contain the loop \verb=for= and a single thread executes all the instructions in the loop $n$ times. In this subsection, we explain how the GPU architecture can compute this loop and reduce the execution time.
+%In the GPU, the scheduler assigns the execution of this loop to a
+%group of threads organised as a grid of blocks with block containing a
+%number of threads. All threads within a block are executed
+%concurrently in parallel. The instructions run on the GPU are grouped
+%in special function called kernels. With CUDA, a programmer must
+%describe the kernel execution context: the size of the Grid, the number of blocks and the number of threads per block.
%In CUDA programming, all the instructions of the \verb=for= loop are executed by the GPU as a kernel. A kernel is a function written in CUDA and defined by the \verb=__global__= qualifier added before a usual \verb=C= function, which instructs the compiler to generate appropriate code to pass it to the CUDA runtime in order to be executed on the GPU.
-Algorithm~\ref{alg2-cuda} shows a sketch of the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm using CUDA.
+Algorithm~\ref{alg2-cuda} shows sketch of the Ehrlich-Aberth method using CUDA.
+\begin{enumerate}
\begin{algorithm}[H]
\label{alg2-cuda}
%\LinesNumbered
\caption{CUDA Algorithm to find roots with the Ehrlich-Aberth method}
-\KwIn{$Z^{0}$ (Initial root's vector), $\varepsilon$ (error tolerance threshold), P(Polynomial to solve), $\Delta z_{max}$ (maximum value of stop condition)}
+\KwIn{$Z^{0}$ (Initial root's vector), $\varepsilon$ (Error tolerance
+ threshold), P (Polynomial to solve), Pu (Derivative of P), $n$ (Polynomial's degrees), $\Delta z_{max}$ (Maximum value of stop condition)}
-\KwOut {Z (The solution root's vector)}
+\KwOut {$Z$ (Solution root's vector), $ZPrec$ (Previous solution root's vector)}
\BlankLine
-Initialization of the coefficients of the polynomial to solve\;
-Initialization of the solution vector $Z^{0}$\;
-Allocate and copy initial data to the GPU global memory\;
-k=0\;
-\While {$\Delta z_{max}\succ \epsilon$}{
- Let $\Delta z_{max}=0$\;
-$ kernel\_save(d\_Z^{k-1})$\;
-k=k+1\;
-$ kernel\_update(d\_Z^{k})$\;
-$kernel\_testConverge(\Delta z_{max},d\_Z^{k},d\_Z^{k-1})$\;
+\item Initialization of the of P\;
+\item Initialization of the of Pu\;
+\item Initialization of the solution vector $Z^{0}$\;
+\item Allocate and copy initial data to the GPU global memory\;
+\item k=0\;
+\While {$\Delta z_{max} > \epsilon$}{
+\item Let $\Delta z_{max}=0$\;
+\item $ kernel\_save(ZPrec,Z)$\;
+\item k=k+1\;
+\item $ kernel\_update(Z,P,Pu)$\;
+\item $kernel\_testConverge(\Delta z_{max},Z,ZPrec)$\;
}
+\item Copy results from GPU memory to CPU memory\;
\end{algorithm}
+\end{enumerate}
~\\
-After the initialisation step, all data of the root finding problem to be solved must be copied from the CPU memory to the GPU global memory, because the GPUs only access data already present in their memories. Next, all the data-parallel arithmetic operations inside the main loop \verb=(do ... while(...))= are executed as kernels by the GPU. The first kernel named \textit{save} in line 6 of Algorithm~\ref{alg2-cuda} consists in saving the vector of polynomial's root found at the previous time-step in GPU memory, in order to check the convergence of the roots after each iteration (line 8, Algorithm~\ref{alg2-cuda}).
-
-The second kernel executes the iterative function $H$ and updates
-$z^{k}$, according to Algorithm~\ref{alg3-update}. We notice that the
-update kernel is called in two forms, separated with the value of
+After the initialization step, all data of the root finding problem
+must be copied from the CPU memory to the GPU global memory. Next, all
+the data-parallel arithmetic operations inside the main loop
+\verb=(while(...))= are executed as kernels by the GPU. The
+first kernel named \textit{save} in line 7 of
+Algorithm~\ref{alg2-cuda} consists in saving the vector of
+polynomial's root found at the previous time-step in GPU memory, in
+order to check the convergence of the roots after each iteration (line
+10, Algorithm~\ref{alg2-cuda}).
+
+The second kernel executes the iterative function and updates
+$Z$, according to Algorithm~\ref{alg3-update}. We notice that the
+update kernel is called in two forms, according to the value
\emph{R} which determines the radius beyond which we apply the
exponential logarithm algorithm.
%\LinesNumbered
\caption{Kernel update}
-\eIf{$(\left|Z^{(k)}\right|<= R)$}{
-$kernel\_update(d\_z^{k})$\;}
+\eIf{$(\left|Z\right|<= R)$}{
+$kernel\_update(Z,P,Pu)$\;}
{
-$kernel\_update\_ExpoLog(d\_z^{k})$\;
+$kernel\_update\_ExpoLog(Z,P,Pu)$\;
}
\end{algorithm}
-The first form executes formula \ref{eq:SimplePolynome} if the modulus
+The first form executes formula the EA function Eq.~\ref{Eq:Hi} if the modulus
of the current complex is less than the a certain value called the
radius i.e. ($ |z^{k}_{i}|<= R$), else the kernel executes the EA.EL
function Eq.~\ref{Log_H2}
-(with Eq.~\ref{deflncomplex}, Eq.~\ref{defexpcomplex}). The radius $R$ is evaluated as :
-
-$$R = \exp( \log(DBL\_MAX) / (2*n) )$$ where $DBL\_MAX$ stands for the maximum representable double value.
+(with Eq.~\ref{deflncomplex}, Eq.~\ref{defexpcomplex}). The radius $R$ is evaluated as in Eq.~\ref{R.EL}.
The last kernel checks the convergence of the roots after each update
-of $Z^{(k)}$, according to formula Eq.~\ref{eq:Aberth-Conv-Cond}. We used the functions of the CUBLAS Library (CUDA Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines) to implement this kernel.
+of $Z^{k}$, according to formula Eq.~\ref{eq:Aberth-Conv-Cond}. We used the functions of the CUBLAS Library (CUDA Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines) to implement this kernel.
The kernel terminates its computations when all the roots have
-converged. Many important remarks should be noticed. First, as blocks
-of threads are scheduled automatically by the GPU, we have absolutely
-no control on the order of the blocks. Consequently, our algorithm is
-executed more or less in an asynchronous iterations way, where blocks
-of roots are updated in a non deterministic way. As the Durand-Kerner
-method has been proved to convergence with asynchronous iterations, we
-think it is similar with the Ehrlich-Aberth method, but we did not try
-to prove this in that paper. Another consequence of that, is that
-several executions of our algorithm with the same polynomials do no
-give necessarily the same result with the same number of iterations
-(even if the variation is not very significant).
+converged. It should be noticed that, as blocks of threads are
+scheduled automatically by the GPU, we have absolutely no control on
+the order of the blocks. Consequently, our algorithm is executed more
+or less in an asynchronous iteration model, where blocks of roots are
+updated in a non deterministic way. As the Durand-Kerner method has
+been proved to converge with asynchronous iterations, we think it is
+similar with the Ehrlich-Aberth method, but we did not try to prove
+this in that paper. Another consequence of that, is that several
+executions of our algorithm with the same polynomial do no give
+necessarily the same result (but roots have the same accuracy) and the
+same number of iterations (even if the variation is not very
+significant).
\section{Experimental study}
\label{sec6}
%\subsection{Definition of the used polynomials }
-We study two categories of polynomials : the sparse polynomials and the full polynomials.
-\paragraph{A sparse polynomial}:is a polynomial for which only some coefficients are not null. We use in the following polynomial for which the roots are distributed on 2 distinct circles :
+We study two categories of polynomials: sparse polynomials and the full polynomials.\\
+{\it A sparse polynomial} is a polynomial for which only some
+coefficients are not null. In this paper, we consider sparse polynomials for which the roots are distributed on 2 distinct circles:
\begin{equation}
\forall \alpha_{1} \alpha_{2} \in C,\forall n_{1},n_{2} \in N^{*}; P(z)= (z^{n_{1}}-\alpha_{1})(z^{n_{2}}-\alpha_{2})
-\end{equation}
-
-
-\paragraph{A full polynomial}:is in contrast, a polynomial for which all the coefficients are not null. the second form used to obtain a full polynomial is:
+\end{equation}\noindent
+{\it A full polynomial} is, in contrast, a polynomial for which
+all the coefficients are not null. A full polynomial is defined by:
%%\begin{equation}
%%\forall \alpha_{i} \in C,\forall n_{i}\in N^{*}; P(z)= \sum^{n}_{i=1}(z^{n^{i}}.a_{i})
%%\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
{\Large \forall a_{i} \in C, i\in N; p(x)=\sum^{n}_{i=0} a_{i}.x^{i}}
\end{equation}
-With this form, we can have until \textit{n} non zero terms whereas the sparse ones have just two non zero terms.
+%With this form, we can have until \textit{n} non zero terms whereas the sparse ones have just two non zero terms.
%\subsection{The study condition}
-The our experiences results concern two parameters which are
-the polynomial degree and the execution time of our program
-to converge on the solution. The polynomial degree allows us
-to validate that our algorithm is powerful with high degree
-polynomials. The execution time remains the
-element-key which justifies our work of parallelization.
- For our tests we used a CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU
-E5620@2.40GHz and a GPU K40 (with 6 Go of ram).
+%Two parameters are studied are
+%the polynomial degree and the execution time of our program
+%to converge on the solution. The polynomial degree allows us
+%to validate that our algorithm is powerful with high degree
+%polynomials. The execution time remains the
+%element-key which justifies our work of parallelization.
+For our tests, a CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU
+E5620@2.40GHz and a GPU K40 (with 6 Go of ram) are used.
%\subsection{Comparative study}
-In this section, we discuss the performance Ehrlich-Aberth method of root finding polynomials implemented on CPUs and on GPUs.
-
-We performed a set of experiments on the sequential and the parallel algorithms, for both sparse and full polynomials and different sizes. We took into account the execution time, the polynomial size and the number of threads per block performed by sum or each experiment on CPUs and on GPUs.
+%First, performances of the Ehrlich-Aberth method of root finding polynomials
+%implemented on CPUs and on GPUs are studied.
-All experimental results obtained from the simulations are made in double precision data, for a convergence tolerance of the methods set to $10^{-7}$. Since we were more interested in the comparison of the performance behaviors of Ehrlich-Aberth and Durand-Kerner methods on CPUs versus on GPUs. The initialization values of the vector solution of the Ehrlich-Aberth method are given in section 2.2.
-\subsection{The execution time in seconds of Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm on CPU OpenMP (1 core, 4 cores) vs. on a Tesla GPU}
+We performed a set of experiments on the sequential and the parallel algorithms, for both sparse and full polynomials and different sizes. We took into account the execution times, the polynomial size and the number of threads per block performed by sum or each experiment on CPU and on GPU.
+All experimental results obtained from the simulations are made in
+double precision data, the convergence threshold of the methods is set
+to $10^{-7}$.
+%Since we were more interested in the comparison of the
+%performance behaviors of Ehrlich-Aberth and Durand-Kerner methods on
+%CPUs versus on GPUs.
+The initialization values of the vector solution
+of the methods are given in Section~\ref{sec:vec_initialization}.
+\subsection{Comparison of execution times of the Ehrlich-Aberth method
+ on a CPU with OpenMP (1 core and 4 cores) vs. on a Tesla GPU}
-\begin{figure}[H]
+\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{figures/openMP-GPU}
-\caption{The execution time in seconds of Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm on CPU OpenMP (1 core, 4 cores) vs. on a Tesla GPU}
+\caption{Comparison of execution times of the Ehrlich-Aberth method
+ on a CPU with OpenMP (1 core, 4 cores) and on a Tesla GPU}
\label{fig:01}
\end{figure}
-Figure 1 %%show a comparison of execution time between the parallel and sequential version of the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm with sparse polynomial exceed 100000,
-We report respectively the execution time of the Ehrlich-Aberth method implemented initially on one core of the Quad-Core Xeon E5620 CPU than on four cores of the same machine with \textit{OpenMP} platform and the execution time of the same method implemented on one Nvidia Tesla K40c GPU, with sparse polynomial degrees ranging from 100,000 to 1,000,000. We can see that the method implemented on the GPU are faster than those implemented on the CPU (4 cores). This is due to the GPU ability to compute the data-parallel functions faster than its CPU counterpart. However, the execution time for the CPU(4 cores) implementation exceed 5,000 s for 250,000 degrees polynomials, in counterpart the GPU implementation for the same polynomials not reach 100 s, more than again, with an execution time under to 2500 s CPU (4 cores) implementation can resolve polynomials degrees of only 200,000, whereas GPU implementation can resolve polynomials more than 1,000,000 degrees. We can also notice that the GPU implementation are almost 47 faster then those implementation on the CPU(4 cores). However the CPU(4 cores) implementation are almost 4 faster then his implementation on CPU (1 core). Furthermore, we verify that the number of iterations and the convergence precision is the same for the both CPU and GPU implementation. %This reduction of time allows us to compute roots of polynomial of more important degree at the same time than with a CPU.
+%%Figure 1 %%show a comparison of execution time between the parallel
+%%and sequential version of the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm with sparse
+%%polynomial exceed 100000,
+
+In Figure~\ref{fig:01}, we report the execution times of the
+Ehrlich-Aberth method on one core of a Quad-Core Xeon E5620 CPU, on
+four cores on the same machine with \textit{OpenMP} and on a Nvidia
+Tesla K40 GPU. We chose different sparse polynomials with degrees
+ranging from 100,000 to 1,000,000. We can see that the implementation
+on the GPU is faster than those implemented on the CPU.
+However, the execution time for the
+CPU (4 cores) implementation exceed 5,000s for 250,000 degrees
+polynomials. In counterpart, the GPU implementation for the same
+polynomials do not take more 100s. With the GPU
+we can solve high degrees polynomials very quickly up to degree
+ of 1,000,000. We can also notice that the GPU implementation are
+ almost 40 faster then those implementation on the CPU (4 cores).
+
+
+
+
+%This reduction of time allows us to compute roots of polynomial of more important degree at the same time than with a CPU.
%We notice that the convergence precision is a round $10^{-7}$ for the both implementation on CPU and GPU. Consequently, we can conclude that Ehrlich-Aberth on GPU are faster and accurately then CPU implementation.
\subsection{Influence of the number of threads on the execution times of different polynomials (sparse and full)}
-To optimize the performances of an algorithm on a GPU, it is necessary to maximize the use of cores GPU (maximize the number of threads executed in parallel) and to optimize the use of the various memoirs GPU. In fact, it is interesting to see the influence of the number of threads per block on the execution time of Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm.
-For that, we notice that the maximum number of threads per block for the Nvidia Tesla K40 GPU is 1024, so we varied the number of threads per block from 8 to 1024. We took into account the execution time for both sparse and full of 10 different polynomials of size 50000 and 10 different polynomials of size 500000 degrees.
+To optimize the performances of an algorithm on a GPU, it is necessary to maximize the use of cores GPU (maximize the number of threads executed in parallel). In fact, it is interesting to see the influence of the number of threads per block on the execution time of Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm.
+For that, we notice that the maximum number of threads per block for the Nvidia Tesla K40 GPU is 1,024, so we varied the number of threads per block from 8 to 1,024. We took into account the execution time for both sparse and full of 10 different polynomials of size 50,000 and 10 different polynomials of size 500,000 degrees.
-\begin{figure}[H]
+\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{figures/influence_nb_threads}
\caption{Influence of the number of threads on the execution times of different polynomials (sparse and full)}
The figure 2 show that, the best execution time for both sparse and full polynomial are given when the threads number varies between 64 and 256 threads per bloc. We notice that with small polynomials the best number of threads per block is 64, Whereas, the large polynomials the best number of threads per block is 256. However,In the following experiments we specify that the number of thread by block is 256.
-\subsection{The impact of exp-log solution to compute very high degrees of polynomial}
+\subsection{Influence of exp-log solution to compute high degree polynomials}
-In this experiment we report the performance of log.exp solution describe in ~\ref{sec2} to compute very high degrees polynomials.
-\begin{figure}[H]
+In this experiment we report the performance of the exp-log solution described in Section~\ref{sec2} to compute very high degrees polynomials.
+\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{figures/sparse_full_explog}
\caption{The impact of exp-log solution to compute very high degrees of polynomial.}
\label{fig:03}
\end{figure}
-The figure 3, show a comparison between the execution time of the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm applying exp.log solution and the execution time of the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm without applying exp.log solution, with full and sparse polynomials degrees. We can see that the execution time for the both algorithms are the same while the full polynomials degrees are less than 4000 and full polynomials are less than 150,000. After,we show clearly that the classical version of Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm (without applying log.exp) stop to converge and can not solving any polynomial sparse or full. In counterpart, the new version of Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm (applying log.exp solution) can solve very high and large full polynomial exceed 100,000 degrees.
-in fact, when the modulus of the roots are up than \textit{R} given in ~\ref{R},this exceed the limited number in the mantissa of floating points representations and can not compute the iterative function given in ~\ref{eq:Aberth-H-GS} to obtain the root solution, who justify the divergence of the classical Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm. However, applying log.exp solution given in ~\ref{sec2} took into account the limit of floating using the iterative function in(Eq.~\ref{Log_H1},Eq.~\ref{Log_H2} and allows to solve a very large polynomials degrees .
+Figure~\ref{fig:03} shows a comparison between the execution time of
+the Ehrlich-Aberth method using the exp-log solution and the
+execution time of the Ehrlich-Aberth method without this solution,
+with full and sparse polynomials degrees. We can see that the
+execution times for both algorithms are the same with full polynomials
+degrees less than 4,000 and sparse polynomials less than 150,000. We
+also clearly show that the classical version (without exp-log) of
+Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm do not converge after these degree with
+sparse and full polynomials. In counterpart, the new version of
+Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm with the exp-log solution can solve very
+high degree polynomials.
+
+%in fact, when the modulus of the roots are up than \textit{R} given in ~\ref{R},this exceed the limited number in the mantissa of floating points representations and can not compute the iterative function given in ~\ref{eq:Aberth-H-GS} to obtain the root solution, who justify the divergence of the classical Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm. However, applying exp-log solution given in ~\ref{sec2} took into account the limit of floating using the iterative function in(Eq.~\ref{Log_H1},Eq.~\ref{Log_H2} and allows to solve a very large polynomials degrees .
+
+
+\subsection{Comparison of the Durand-Kerner and the Ehrlich-Aberth methods}
-\subsection{A comparative study between Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm and Durand-kerner algorithm}
-In this part, we are interesting to compare the simultaneous methods, Ehrlich-Aberth and Durand-Kerner in parallel computer using GPU. We took into account the execution time, the number of iteration and the polynomial's size. for the both sparse and full polynomials.
+In this part, we compare the Durand-Kerner and the Ehrlich-Aberth
+methods on GPU. We took into account the execution times, the number of iterations and the polynomials size for the both sparse and full polynomials.
-\begin{figure}[H]
+\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{figures/EA_DK}
-\caption{The execution time of Ehrlich-Aberth versus Durand-Kerner algorithm on GPU}
+\caption{Execution times of the Durand-Kerner and the Ehrlich-Aberth methods on GPU}
\label{fig:04}
\end{figure}
-This figure show the execution time of the both algorithm EA and DK with sparse polynomial degrees ranging from 1000 to 1000000. We can see that the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm are faster than Durand-Kerner algorithm, with an average of 25 times as fast. Then, when degrees of polynomial exceed 500000 the execution time with EA is of the order 100 whereas DK passes in the order 1000. %with double precision not exceed $10^{-5}$.
+Figure~\ref{fig:04} shows the execution times of both methods with
+sparse polynomial degrees ranging from 1,000 to 1,000,000. We can see
+that the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm is faster than Durand-Kerner
+algorithm, with an average of 25 times faster. Then, when degrees of
+polynomial exceed 500,000 the execution times with DK are very long.
-\begin{figure}[H]
+%with double precision not exceed $10^{-5}$.
+
+\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{figures/EA_DK_nbr}
-\caption{The iteration number of Ehrlich-Aberth versus Durand-Kerner algorithm}
+\caption{The number of iterations to converge for the Ehrlich-Aberth
+ and the Durand-Kerner methods}
\label{fig:05}
\end{figure}
-This figure show the evaluation of the number of iteration according to degree of polynomial from both EA and DK algorithms, we can see that the iteration number of DK is of order 100 while EA is of order 10. Indeed the computing of derivative of P (the polynomial to resolve) in the iterative function(Eq.~\ref{Eq:Hi}) executed by EA, offers him a possibility to converge more quickly. In counterpart the DK operator(Eq.~\ref{DK}) need low operation, consequently low execution time per iteration,but it need lot of iteration to converge.
-
- \section{Conclusion and perspective}
-\label{sec7}
-In this paper we have presented the parallel implementation Ehrlich-Aberth method on GPU and on CPU (openMP) for the problem of finding roots polynomial. Moreover, we have improved the classical Ehrlich-Aberth method witch suffer of overflow problems, the exp.log solution applying to the iterative function to resolve high degree polynomial.
+Figure~\ref{fig:05} show the evaluation of the number of iteration according
+to degree of polynomial from both EA and DK algorithms, we can see
+that the iteration number of DK is of order 100 while EA is of order
+10. Indeed the computing of the derivative of P (the polynomial to
+resolve) in the iterative function (Eq.~\ref{Eq:Hi}) executed by EA
+allows the algorithm to converge more quickly. In counterpart, the
+DK operator (Eq.~\ref{DK}) needs low operation, consequently low
+execution time per iteration, but it needs more iterations to converge.
-Then, we have described the parallel implementation of the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm on GPU.
-We have performed some experiments on Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm in CPU and GPU from the both sparse and full polynomial. These experiments lead us to conclude that the iterative methods using data-parallel operations are more efficient on the GPU than on the CPU. Moreover, the experiment showed that Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm on GPU converge from the both sparse and full polynomials with precision of $10^{-7}$ and the execution time very faster than the CPU version.
-The experiences showed that the improvement brought to Ehrlich-Aberth allows to resolve very large degree polynomial exceed 100,000.
-Finally, we have compared Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm to Durand-Kerner algorithm, we have conclude that Ehrlich-Aberth converges more quickly than Durand-Kerner in execution time, it is due in fact that Ehrlich-Aberth has cubic one convergence While Durand-Kerner is quadratic. In counterpart, the execution time per iteration are very low for Durand-Kerner algorithm compare to the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm, consequently, it need lot of iterations to converge. We have to notice that Durand-Kerner does not converge for full polynomial which exceed 5000 degrees while Ehrlich-Aberth was able to solve full polynomial of degree 500,000.
-In future work, we plan to perform some experiments using several GPU with a cluster of GPU. So it is interesting to implement algorithms using at least two forms of parallelism on GPU and CPU.
+ \section{Conclusion and perspectives}
+\label{sec7}
+In this paper we have presented the parallel implementation
+Ehrlich-Aberth method on GPU for the problem of finding roots
+polynomial. Moreover, we have improved the classical Ehrlich-Aberth
+method which suffers from overflow problems, the exp-log solution
+applied to the iterative function allows to solve high degree
+polynomials.
+
+We have performed many experiments with the Ehrlich-Aberth method in
+GPU. These experiments highlight that this method is very efficient in
+GPU compared to all the other implementations. The improvement with
+the exponential logarithm solution allows us to solve sparse and full
+high degree polynomials up to 1,000,000 degree. Hence, it may be
+possible to consider to use polynomial root finding methods in other
+numerical applications on GPU.
+
+
+In future works, we plan to investigate the possibility of using
+several multiple GPUs simultaneously, either with multi-GPU machine or
+with cluster of GPUs. It may also be interesting to study the
+implementation of other root finding polynomial methods on GPU.
