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Linear solvers for large and sparse systems are a key element of scientific applications, and their efficient implementation is necessary to harness the computational power of current computers. Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) preconditioners are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone

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

We construct an algebraic multigrid (AMG) based preconditioner for the reduced Hessian of a linear-quadratic optimization problem constrained by an elliptic partial differential equation. While the preconditioner generalizes a geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Andrew T. Barker , Andrei Draganescu

We present families of space-time finite element methods (STFEMs) for a coupled hyperbolic-parabolic system of poro- or thermoelasticity. Well-posedness of the discrete problems is proved. Higher order approximations inheriting most of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause , Nils Margenberg , Pavel Shamko

We numerically analyze the possibility of turning off post-smoothing (relaxation) in geometric multigrid when used as a preconditioner in conjugate gradient linear and eigenvalue solvers for the 3D Laplacian. The geometric Semicoarsening…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Henricus Bouwmeester , Andrew Dougherty , Andrew V. Knyazev

The support vector machine is a flexible optimization-based technique widely used for classification problems. In practice, its training part becomes computationally expensive on large-scale data sets because of such reasons as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-28 Ehsan Sadrfaridpour , Sandeep Jeereddy , Ken Kennedy , Andre Luckow , Talayeh Razzaghi , Ilya Safro

This paper provides a unified and detailed presentation of root-node style algebraic multigrid (AMG). Algebraic multigrid is a popular and effective iterative method for solving large, sparse linear systems that arise from discretizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Thomas A. Manteuffel , Luke N. Olson , Jacob B. Schroder , Ben S. Southworth

Unfitted finite element methods have emerged as a popular alternative to classical finite element methods for the solution of partial differential equations and allow modeling arbitrary geometries without the need for a boundary-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 S. Saberi , G. Meschke , A. Vogel

Hybrid CPU-GPU algorithms for Algebraic Multigrid methods (AMG) to efficiently utilize both CPU and GPU resources are presented. In particular, hybrid AMG framework focusing on minimal utilization of GPU memory with performance on par with…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Sashikumaar Ganesan , Manan Shah

We present a parallelized geometric multigrid (GMG) method, based on the cell-based Vanka smoother, for higher order space-time finite element methods (STFEM) to the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. The STFEM is implemented as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause

We propose a path cover adaptive algebraic multigrid (PC-$\alpha$AMG) method for solving linear systems of weighted graph Laplacians and can also be applied to discretized second order elliptic partial differential equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Xiaozhe Hu , Junyuan Lin , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

The geometric multigrid method (GMG) is one of the most efficient solving techniques for discrete algebraic systems arising from elliptic partial differential equations. GMG utilizes a hierarchy of grids or discretizations and reduces the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Chunsheng Feng , Shi Shu , Jinchao Xu , Chen-Song Zhang

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

We present a scalable block preconditioning strategy for the trace system coming from the high-order hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretization of incompressible resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We construct the block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Stephen Shannon , Tan Bui-Thanh , John N. Shadid

We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 M. Cai , A. J. Nonaka , J. B. Bell , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

This paper presents a matrix-free multigrid method for solving the Stokes problem, discretized using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming discontinuous Galerkin methods. We employ a Schur complement method combined with the fast diagonalization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

This paper is to give an overview of AMG methods for solving large scale systems of equations such as those from the discretization of partial differential equations. AMG is often understood as the acronym of "Algebraic Multi-Grid", but it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Jinchao Xu , Ludmil T Zikatanov

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is a widely used scalable solver and preconditioner for large-scale linear systems resulting from the discretization of a wide class of elliptic PDEs. While AMG has optimal computational complexity, the cost of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Wayne B. Mitchell , Robert Strzodka , Robert D. Falgout

Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods are often robust and effective solvers for solving the large and sparse linear systems that arise from discretized PDEs and other problems, relying on heuristic graph algorithms to achieve their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Tareq Zaman , Nicolas Nytko , Ali Taghibakhshi , Scott MacLachlan , Luke Olson , Matthew West

This paper describes a massively parallel algebraic multigrid method based on non-smoothed aggregation. It is especially suited for solving heterogeneous elliptic problems as it uses a greedy heuristic algorithm for the aggregation that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Markus Blatt , Olaf Ippisch , Peter Bastian