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@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Here we give a second form of the iterative function used by Ehrlich-Aberth meth
 \begin{equation}
 \label{Eq:Hi}
 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=0,. . . .,n
+{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
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ Authors usually adopt one of the two following approaches to parallelize root
 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}. 
 
@@ -409,8 +409,8 @@ 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
+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
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ In~\cite{Kahinall14} we already proposed the first implementation
 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 $1,000,000$).
@@ -543,18 +543,25 @@ polynomials of 48000.
 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 :
+$z^{k}_{i}$ 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=1,j\neq i}^{j=n}{\frac{1}{(z_{i}^{k}-z_{j}^{k})}})}, i=1,. . . .,n
 \end{equation}
-%%Here a finiched my revision %%
+
 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 $z^{k+1}_{i}$.
@@ -582,9 +589,9 @@ Algorithm~\ref{alg2-cuda} shows a sketch of the Ehrlich-Aberth algorithm using C
 \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), Pu (the derivative of P), $n$ (Polynomial's degrees), $\Delta z_{max}$ (maximum value of stop condition)}
+  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), $ZPrec$ (the previous solution root's vector)}
+\KwOut {$Z$ (Solution root's vector), $ZPrec$ (Previous solution root's vector)}
 
 \BlankLine
 
@@ -605,11 +612,19 @@ Copy results from GPU memory to CPU memory\;
 \end{algorithm}
 ~\\ 
 
-After the initialization 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}).
+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 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
-$d\_Z$, according to Algorithm~\ref{alg3-update}. We notice that the
-update kernel is called in two forms, separated with the value of
+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. 
 
@@ -619,9 +634,9 @@ exponential logarithm algorithm.
 \caption{Kernel update}
 
 \eIf{$(\left|Z\right|<= R)$}{
-$kernel\_update((Z,P,Pu)$\;}
+$kernel\_update(Z,P,Pu)$\;}
 {
-$kernel\_update\_ExpoLog((Z,P,Pu))$\;
+$kernel\_update\_ExpoLog(Z,P,Pu)$\;
 }
 \end{algorithm}
 
@@ -835,7 +850,8 @@ 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.
+with cluster of GPUs. It may also be interesting to study the
+implementation of other root finding polynomial methods on GPU.
 
 
 
