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Krylov subspace methods are widely known as efficient algebraic methods for solving large scale linear systems. However, on massively parallel hardware the performance of these methods is typically limited by communication latency rather…
Pipelined Krylov subspace methods avoid communication latency by reducing the number of global synchronization bottlenecks and by hiding global communication behind useful computational work. In exact arithmetic pipelined Krylov subspace…
By reducing the number of global synchronization bottlenecks per iteration and hiding communication behind useful computational work, pipelined Krylov subspace methods achieve significantly improved parallel scalability on present-day HPC…
Pipelined Krylov subspace methods (also referred to as communication-hiding methods) have been proposed in the literature as a scalable alternative to classic Krylov subspace algorithms for iteratively computing the solution to a large…
Krylov subspace methods are among the most efficient solvers for large scale linear algebra problems. Nevertheless, classic Krylov subspace algorithms do not scale well on massively parallel hardware due to synchronization bottlenecks.…
A High Performance Computing alternative to traditional Krylov subspace methods, pipelined Krylov subspace solvers offer better scalability in the strong scaling limit compared to standard Krylov subspace methods for large and sparse linear…
We present variants of the Conjugate Gradient (CG), Conjugate Residual (CR), and Generalized Minimal Residual (GMRES) methods which are both pipelined and flexible. These allow computation of inner products and norms to be overlapped with…
This paper presents performance results comparing MPI-based implementations of the popular Conjugate Gradient (CG) method and several of its communication hiding (or 'pipelined') variants. Pipelined CG methods are designed to efficiently…
As computational machines become larger and more complex, the probability of hardware failure rises. ``Silent errors'', or bit flips, may not be immediately apparent but can cause detrimental effects to algorithm behavior. In this work, we…
Parallel implementations of Krylov subspace methods often help to accelerate the procedure of finding an approximate solution of a linear system. However, such parallelization coupled with asynchronous and out-of-order execution often…
In this article, we propose an accuracy-assuring technique for finding a solution for unsymmetric linear systems. Such problems are related to different areas such as image processing, computer vision, and computational fluid dynamics.…
The standard implementation of the conjugate gradient algorithm suffers from communication bottlenecks on parallel architectures, due primarily to the two global reductions required every iteration. In this paper, we study conjugate…
In this work, we collect data from runs of Krylov subspace methods and pipelined Krylov algorithms in an effort to understand and model the impact of machine noise and other sources of variability on performance. We find large variability…
Krylov methods are a key way of solving large sparse linear systems of equations, but suffer from poor strong scalabilty on distributed memory machines. This is due to high synchronization costs from large numbers of collective…
On modern large-scale parallel computers, the performance of Krylov subspace iterative methods is limited by global synchronization. This has inspired the development of $s$-step Krylov subspace method variants, in which iterations are…
Enlarged Krylov subspace methods and their s-step versions were introduced [7] in the aim of reducing communication when solving systems of linear equations Ax = b. These enlarged CG methods consist of enlarging the Krylov subspace by a…
Pipelined Krylov methods seek to ameliorate the latency due to inner products necessary for projection by overlapping it with the computation associated with sparse matrix-vector multiplication. We clarify a folk theorem that this can only…
Since numbers in the computer are represented with a fixed number of bits, loss of accuracy during calculation is unavoidable. At high precision where more bits (e.g. 64) are allocated to each number, round-off errors are typically small.…
Krylov subspace methods are an essential building block in numerical simulation software. The efficient utilization of modern hardware is a challenging problem in the development of these methods. In this work, we develop Krylov subspace…
Deflation techniques for Krylov subspace methods have seen a lot of attention in recent years. They provide means to improve the convergence speed of these methods by enriching the Krylov subspace with a deflation subspace. The most common…