Title
A tearing-based hybrid parallel sparse linear system solver
Abstract
We propose a hybrid sparse system solver for handling linear systems using algebraic domain decomposition-based techniques. The solver consists of several stages. The first stage uses a reordering scheme that brings as many of the largest matrix elements as possible closest to the main diagonal. This is followed by partitioning the coefficient matrix into a set of overlapped diagonal blocks that contain most of the largest elements of the coefficient matrix. The only constraint here is to minimize the size of each overlap. Separating these blocks into independent linear systems with the constraint of matching the solution parts of neighboring blocks that correspond to the overlaps, we obtain a balance system. This balance system is not formed explicitly and has a size that is much smaller than the original system. Our novel solver requires only a one-time factorization of each diagonal block, and in each outer iteration, obtaining only the upper and lower tips of a solution vector where the size of each tip is equal to that of the individual overlap. This scheme proves to be scalable on clusters of nodes in which each node has a multicore architecture. Numerical experiments comparing the scalability of our solver with direct and preconditioned iterative methods are also presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.cam.2010.04.016
J. Computational Applied Mathematics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
independent linear system,coefficient matrix,diagonal block,original system,largest matrix element,linear system,hybrid sparse system solver,parallel sparse linear system,balance system,main diagonal,novel solver
Journal
234
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0377-0427
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maxim Naumov16810.29
Murat Manguoglu2759.28
Ahmed H. Sameh3297139.93