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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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Shelby Lockhart , Amanda Bienz , William Gropp , Luke Olson

We discuss an approach for solving sparse or dense banded linear systems ${\bf A} {\bf x} = {\bf b}$ on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) card. The matrix ${\bf A} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{N \times N}$ is possibly nonsymmetric and moderately large;…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Ang Li , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

The Poisson pressure solve resulting from the spectral element discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation requires fast, robust, and scalable preconditioning. In the current work, a parallel scaling study of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Malachi Phillips , Stefan Kerkemeier , Paul Fischer

Large sparse symmetric linear systems appear in several branches of science and engineering thanks to the widespread use of the finite element method (FEM). The fastest sparse linear solvers available implement hybrid iterative methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Luca Grementieri , Paolo Galeone

This paper presents a low-overhead optimizer for the ubiquitous sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) kernel. Architectural diversity among different processors together with structural diversity among different sparse matrices lead to…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Nektarios Koziris

We present a GPU-accelerated version of a high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The equations are discretized in time using a semi-implicit scheme with explicit treatment of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Ali Karakus , Noel Chalmers , Kasia Swirydowicz , Timothy Warburton

Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is the cornerstone in many iterative workloads, including large-scale graph analytics and sparse iterative solvers. Accelerating SpMV on real-world graphs remains challenging due to highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qi Zhang , Zhengan Yao , Zhenglu Jiang , Zan-Bo Zhang

HipMCL is a high-performance distributed memory implementation of the popular Markov Cluster Algorithm (MCL) and can cluster large-scale networks within hours using a few thousand CPU-equipped nodes. It relies on sparse matrix computations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Oguz Selvitopi , Md Taufique Hussain , Ariful Azad , Aydın Buluç

This paper introduces the Bi-linear consensus Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (Bi-cADMM), aimed at solving large-scale regularized Sparse Machine Learning (SML) problems defined over a network of computational nodes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Alireza Olama , Andreas Lundell , Jan Kronqvist , Elham Ahmadi , Eduardo Camponogara

In this paper, we introduce a unified framework for nonlinear Krylov subspace methods (nlKrylov) to solve systems of nonlinear equations. Building on classical GCR-like/type linear Krylov solvers such as GMRESR, we generalize these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Tom Werner , Ning Wan , Agnieszka Miedlar

Classical iterative methods for tomographic reconstruction include the class of Algebraic Reconstruction Techniques (ART). Convergence of these stationary linear iterative methods is however notably slow. In this paper we propose the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Siegfried Cools , Pieter Ghysels , Wim van Aarle , J. Sijbers , Wim Vanroose

Analogues of the conjugate gradient method, MINRES, and GMRES are derived for solving boundary value problems (BVPs) involving second-order differential operators. Two challenges arise: imposing the boundary conditions on the solution while…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Marc Aurèle Gilles , Alex Townsend

The linear equations that arise in interior methods for constrained optimization are sparse symmetric indefinite and become extremely ill-conditioned as the interior method converges. These linear systems present a challenge for existing…

General-purpose Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental kernel in scientific computing and deep learning. The emergence of new matrix computation units such as Tensor Cores (TCs) brings more opportunities for SpMM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Haisha Zhao , San Li , Jiaheng Wang , Chunbao Zhou , Jue Wang , Zhikuang Xin , Shunde Li , Zhiqiang Liang , Zhijie Pan , Fang Liu , Yan Zeng , Yangang Wang , Xuebin Chi

Krylov subspace methods are a powerful family of iterative solvers for linear systems of equations, which are commonly used for inverse problems due to their intrinsic regularization properties. Moreover, these methods are naturally suited…

We study the solution of block-structured linear algebra systems arising in optimization by using iterative solution techniques. These systems are the core computational bottleneck of many problems of interest such as parameter estimation,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Jose S. Rodriguez , Carl D. Laird , Victor M. Zavala

Large, sparse linear systems are pervasive in modern science and engineering, and Krylov subspace solvers are an established means of solving them. Yet convergence can be slow for ill-conditioned matrices, so practical deployments usually…

Methods for solving hyperbolic systems typically depend on unknown ordering (e.g., Gauss-Seidel, or sweep/wavefront/marching methods) to achieve good convergence. For many discretisations, mesh types or decompositions these methods do not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 S. Dargaville , R. P. Smedley-Stevenson , P. N. Smith , C. C. Pain

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is crucial in computational science, engineering, and machine learning. Despite substantial efforts to improve SpMV performance on GPUs through various techniques, issues related to data locality,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xing Cong , Fukai Sun , Yifan Chen , Chenhao Xie* , Yi Liu , Depei Qian

We present a GPU-accelerated version of the real-space SPARC electronic structure code for performing hybrid functional calculations in generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory. In particular, we develop a batch variant of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Xin Jing , Abhiraj Sharma , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana