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Preconditioning is at the heart of iterative solutions of large, sparse linear systems of equations in scientific disciplines. Several algebraic approaches, which access no information beyond the matrix itself, are widely studied and used,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Jie Chen

This paper introduces a robust preconditioner for general sparse symmetric matrices, that is based on low-rank approximations of the Schur complement in a Domain Decomposition (DD) framework. In this "Schur Low Rank" (SLR) preconditioning…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Ruipeng Li , Yuanzhe Xi , Yousef Saad

As integrated circuits become increasingly complex, the demand for efficient and accurate simulation solvers continues to rise. Traditional solvers often struggle with large-scale sparse systems, leading to prolonged simulation times and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Zijian Zhang , Rui Hong , Xuesong Chen , Shuting Cai

We present and release in open source format a sparse linear solver which efficiently exploits heterogeneous parallel computers. The solver can be easily integrated into scientific applications that need to solve large and sparse linear…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Massimo Bernaschi , Alessandro Celestini , Pasqua D'Ambra , Flavio Vella

This paper presents a hybrid CPU-GPU framework for solving combinatorial scheduling problems formulated as Integer Linear Programming (ILP). While scheduling underpins many optimization tasks in computing systems, solving these problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mingju Liu , Jiaqi Yin , Alvaro Velasquez , Cunxi Yu

We present a parallel hierarchical solver for general sparse linear systems on distributed-memory machines. For large-scale problems, this fully algebraic algorithm is faster and more memory-efficient than sparse direct solvers because it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Chao Chen , Hadi Pouransari , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam , Erik G. Boman , Eric Darve

In this work, we propose and study a preconditioned framework with a graphic Ginzburg-Landau functional for image segmentation and data clustering by parallel computing. Solving nonlocal models is usually challenging due to the huge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Xinhua Shen , Hongpeng Sun , Xuecheng Tai

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Matthias Bollhöfer , Olaf Schenk , Fabio Verbosio

Preconditioning techniques are crucial for enhancing the efficiency of solving large-scale linear equation systems that arise from partial differential equation (PDE) discretization. These techniques, such as Incomplete Cholesky…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Rui Li , Song Wang , Chen Wang

An effective power based parallel preconditioner is proposed for general large sparse linear systems. The preconditioner combines a power series expansion method with some low-rank correction techniques, where the Sherman-Morrison-Woodbury…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Qingqing Zheng , Yuanzhe Xi , Yousef Saad

We describe a parallel solver for the discretized weakly singular space-time boundary integral equation of the spatially two-dimensional heat equation. The global space-time nature of the system matrices leads to improved parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Stefan Dohr , Michal Merta , Günther Of , Olaf Steinbach , Jan Zapletal

Solving large, sparse linear systems is a fundamental workload in scientific computing and engineering simulations, often dominating runtime and energy consumption in high-performance computing (HPC) applications. In this work, we explore…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Dan Gluck , Yotam Mimran , Andrey Karenskih , Talya Vaknin , Omri Wolf , Ruti Ben-Shlomi , Johannes Gebert

Algorithms for studying transitions and instabilities in incompressible flows typically require the solution of linear systems with the full Jacobian matrix. Other popular approaches, like gradient-based design optimization and fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Sven Baars , Mark van der Klok , Jonas Thies , Fred W. Wubs

Inversion of sparse matrices with standard direct solve schemes is robust, but computationally expensive. Iterative solvers, on the other hand, demonstrate better scalability; but, need to be used with an appropriate preconditioner (e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Hadi Pouransari , Pieter Coulier , Eric Darve

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Qiao Chen , Aditi Ghai , Xiangmin Jiao

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated framework for solving block tridiagonal linear systems that arise naturally in numerous real-time applications across engineering and scientific computing. Through a multi-stage permutation strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Roland Schwan , Daniel Kuhn , Colin N. Jones

We present scalable iterative solvers and preconditioning strategies for Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretizations of partial differential equations (PDEs) on graphics processing units (GPUs). The HDG method is implemented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Andrew Welter , Ngoc Cuong Nguyen

Incomplete LU (ILU) smoothers are effective in the algebraic multigrid (AMG) $V$-cycle for reducing high-frequency components of the error. However, the requisite direct triangular solves are comparatively slow on GPUs. Previous work has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Stephen Thomas , Arielle Carr , Paul Mullowney , Kasia Świrydowicz , Marc Day

In this paper, we present algorithms and implementations for the end-to-end GPU acceleration of matrix-free low-order-refined preconditioning of high-order finite element problems. The methods described here allow for the construction of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Will Pazner , Tzanio Kolev , Jean-Sylvain Camier

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Tomonori Kouya