Highly scalable linear solvers on thousands of processors.
Author(s) -
Stefan P. Domino,
Ian Karlin,
Christopher Siefert,
Jonathan Joseph Hu,
Allen C. Robinson,
Raymond S. Tuminaro
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/993900
Subject(s) - multigrid method , parallel computing , computer science , scalability , kernel (algebra) , synchronization (alternating current) , multi core processor , matrix multiplication , smoothing , domain decomposition methods , sparse matrix , computational science , mathematics , partial differential equation , mathematical analysis , computer network , channel (broadcasting) , physics , combinatorics , database , quantum mechanics , finite element method , gaussian , computer vision , quantum , thermodynamics
In this report we summarize research into new parallel algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods. We first provide a introduction to parallel AMG. We then discuss our research in parallel AMG algorithms for very large scale platforms. We detail significant improvements in the AMG setup phase to a matrix-matrix multiplication kernel. We present a smoothed aggregation AMG algorithm with fewer communication synchronization points, and discuss its links to domain decomposition methods. Finally, we discuss a multigrid smoothing technique that utilizes two message passing layers for use on multicore processors.
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