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Incomplete factorization is a widely used preconditioning technique for Krylov subspace methods for solving large-scale sparse linear systems. Its multilevel variants, such as ILUPACK, are more robust for many symmetric or unsymmetric…
Many application problems that lead to solving linear systems make use of preconditioned Krylov subspace solvers to compute their solution. Among the most popular preconditioning approaches are incomplete factorization methods either as…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
This article introduces HYLU, a hybrid parallel LU factorization-based general-purpose solver designed for efficiently solving sparse linear systems (Ax=b) on multi-core shared-memory architectures. The key technical feature of HYLU is the…
SYM-ILDL is a numerical software package that computes incomplete $LDL^{T}$ (or `ILDL') factorizations of symmetric indefinite and real skew-symmetric matrices. The core of the algorithm is a Crout variant of incomplete LU (ILU), originally…
Incomplete factorizations have long been popular general-purpose algebraic preconditioners for solving large sparse linear systems of equations. Guaranteeing the factorization is breakdown free while computing a high quality preconditioner…
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…
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…
The emergence of low precision floating-point arithmetic in computer hardware has led to a resurgence of interest in the use of mixed precision numerical linear algebra. For linear systems of equations, there has been renewed enthusiasm for…
This paper introduces sTiles, a GPU-accelerated framework for factorizing sparse structured symmetric matrices. By leveraging tile algorithms for fine-grained computations, sTiles uses a structure-aware task execution flow to handle…
In this paper, we introduce and analyze a new $LU$-factorization technique for square matrices over idempotent semifields. In particular, more emphasis is put on "max-plus" algebra here, but the work is extended to other idempotent…
In this paper we introduce an algebraic recursive multilevel incomplete factorization preconditioner, based on a distributed Schur complement formulation, for solving general linear systems. The novelty of the proposed method is to combine…
Preconditioned Krylov subspace (KSP) methods are widely used for solving large-scale sparse linear systems arising from numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs). These linear systems are often nonsymmetric due to the…
LU and Cholesky matrix factorization algorithms are core subroutines used to solve systems of linear equations (SLEs) encountered while solving an optimization problem. Standard factorization algorithms are highly efficient but remain…
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…
In this work, we present a new scalable incomplete LU factorization framework called Javelin to be used as a preconditioner for solving sparse linear systems with iterative methods. Javelin allows for improved parallel factorization on…
We propose two novel techniques for overcoming load-imbalance encountered when implementing so-called look-ahead mechanisms in relevant dense matrix factorizations for the solution of linear systems. Both techniques target the scenario…