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This paper presents a parallel preconditioning approach based on incomplete LU (ILU) factorizations in the framework of Domain Decomposition (DD) for general sparse linear systems. We focus on distributed memory parallel architectures,…
ILU(k) is a commonly used preconditioner for iterative linear solvers for sparse, non-symmetric systems. It is often preferred for the sake of its stability. We present TPILU(k), the first efficiently parallelized ILU(k) preconditioner that…
A technique for computing an ILU preconditioner based on the FAPINV algorithm is presented. We show that this algorithm is well-defined for H-matrices. Moreover, when used in conjunction with Krylov-subspace-based iterative solvers such as…
Krylov subspace methods are linear solvers based on matrix-vector multiplications and vector operations. While easily parallelizable, they are sensitive to rounding errors and may experience convergence issues. ILU(0), an incomplete LU…
There has been a growing interest in parallel strategies for solving trajectory optimization problems. One key step in many algorithmic approaches to trajectory optimization is the solution of moderately-large and sparse linear systems.…
Preconditioning for overdetermined least-squares problems has received comparatively little attention, and designing methods that are both effective and memory-efficient remains challenging. We propose a class of ILU-based preconditioners…
Incomplete factorization is a powerful preconditioner for Krylov subspace methods for solving large-scale sparse linear systems. Existing incomplete factorization techniques, including incomplete Cholesky and incomplete LU factorizations,…
The main computational cost of algorithms for computing reduced-order models of parametric dynamical systems is in solving sequences of very large and sparse linear systems. We focus on efficiently solving these linear systems, arising…
Although some preconditioners are available for solving dense linear systems, there are still many matrices for which preconditioners are lacking, in particular in cases where the size of the matrix $N$ becomes very large. There remains…
We present a study of the effectiveness of asynchronous incomplete LU factorization preconditioners for the time-implicit solution of compressible flow problems while exploiting thread-parallelism within a compute node. A block variant of…
A new preconditioner based on a block $LDU$ factorization with algebraic multigrid subsolves for scalability is introduced for the large, structured systems appearing in implicit Runge-Kutta time integration of parabolic partial…
We have recently developed a general schedulability test framework, called k2U, which can be applied to deal with a large variety of task models that have been widely studied in real-time embedded systems. The k2U framework provides several…
To precondition a large and sparse linear system, two direct methods for approximate factoring of the inverse are devised. The algorithms are fully parallelizable and appear to be more robust than the iterative methods suggested for the…
The solution of a sparse system of linear equations is ubiquitous in scientific applications. Iterative methods, such as the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient method (PCG), are normally chosen over direct methods due to memory and…
Solving sparse linear systems from discretized PDEs is challenging. Direct solvers have in many cases quadratic complexity (depending on geometry), while iterative solvers require problem dependent preconditioners to be robust and…
Sparse linear system solvers are computationally expensive kernels that lie at the heart of numerous applications. This paper proposes a flexible preconditioning framework to substantially reduce the time and energy requirements of this…
Incomplete LU factorizations of sparse matrices are widely used as preconditioners in Krylov subspace methods to speed up solving linear systems. Unfortunately, computing the preconditioner itself can be time-consuming and sensitive to…
In this paper, a run-time auto-tuning method for performance parameters according to input matrices is proposed. RAO-SS (Run-time Auto-tuning Optimizer for Sparse Solvers), which is a prototype of auto-tuning software using the proposed…
In this article, we establish a class of new accelerated modulus-based iteration methods for solving the linear complementarity problem. When the system matrix is an $H_+$-matrix, we present appropriate criteria for the convergence…
Pre-conditioning is a well-known concept that can significantly improve the convergence of optimization algorithms. For noise-free problems, where good pre-conditioners are not known a priori, iterative linear algebra methods offer one way…