-\subsection{Improving Ehrlich-Aberth method}
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-\subsection{Ehrlich-Aberth parallel implementation on CUDA}
-We introduced three paradigms of parallel programming. Our objective consists in implementing a root finding polynomial algorithm on multiple GPUs. To this end, it is primordial to know how to manage CUDA contexts of different GPUs. A direct method for controlling the various GPUs is to use as many threads or processes as GPU devices. We can choose the GPU index based on the identifier of OpenMP thread or the rank of the MPI process. Both approaches will be investigated.
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-Like any parallel code, a GPU parallel implementation first
-requires to determine the sequential tasks and the
-parallelizable parts of the sequential version of the
-program/algorithm. In our case, all the operations that are easy
-to execute in parallel must be made by the GPU to accelerate
-the execution of the application, like the step 3 and step 4. On the other hand, all the
-sequential operations and the operations that have data
-dependencies between threads or recursive computations must
-be executed by only one CUDA or CPU thread (step 1 and step 2). Initially, we specify the organization of parallel threads, by specifying the dimension of the grid Dimgrid, the number of blocks per grid DimBlock and the number of threads per block.
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-The code is organzed by what is named kernels, portions o code that are run on GPU devices. For step 3, there are two kernels, the
-first named \textit{save} is used to save vector $Z^{K-1}$ and the seconde one is named
-\textit{update} and is used to update the $Z^{K}$ vector. For step 4, a kernel
-tests the convergence of the method. In order to
-compute the function H, we have two possibilities: either to use
-the Jacobi mode, or the Gauss-Seidel mode of iterating which uses the
-most recent computed roots. It is well known that the Gauss-
-Seidel mode converges more quickly. So, we used the Gauss-Seidel mode of iteration. To
-parallelize the code, we created kernels and many functions to
-be executed on the GPU for all the operations dealing with the
-computation on complex numbers and the evaluation of the
-polynomials. As said previously, we managed both functions
-of evaluation of a polynomial: the normal method, based on
-the method of Horner and the method based on the logarithm
-of the polynomial. All these methods were rather long to
-implement, as the development of corresponding kernels with
-CUDA is longer than on a CPU host. This comes in particular
-from the fact that it is very difficult to debug CUDA running
-threads like threads on a CPU host. In the following paragraph
-Algorithm~\ref{alg1-cuda} shows the GPU parallel implementation of Ehrlich-Aberth method.
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-\begin{algorithm}[htpb]
-\label{alg1-cuda}
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-\caption{CUDA Algorithm to find roots with the Ehrlich-Aberth method}