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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 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 typically offer improved strong scaling on parallel HPC hardware compared to standard Krylov subspace methods for large and sparse linear systems. In pipelined methods the traditional synchronization…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recently, enlarged Krylov subspace methods, that consists of enlarging the Krylov subspace by a maximum of t vectors per iteration based on the domain decomposition of the graph of A, were introduced in the aim of reducing communication…
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 observed and expected continued growth in the number of nodes in large-scale parallel computers gives rise to two major challenges: global communication operations are becoming major bottlenecks due to their limited scalability, and the…
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…
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…
Communication-avoiding and pipelined variants of Krylov solvers are critical for the scalability of linear system solvers on future exascale architectures. We present low synchronization variants of iterated classical (CGS) and modified…
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…
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…
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…
Linear solvers are key components in any software platform for scientific and engineering computing. The solution of large and sparse linear systems lies at the core of physics-driven numerical simulations relying on partial differential…
Gradient descent (GD) methods are commonly employed in machine learning problems to optimize the parameters of the model in an iterative fashion. For problems with massive datasets, computations are distributed to many parallel computing…
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…