A Block FSAI-ILU Parallel Preconditioner for Symmetric Positive Definite Linear Systems

  • Authors:
  • Carlo Janna;Massimilano Ferronato;Giuseppe Gambolati

  • Affiliations:
  • janna@dmsa.unipd.it and ferronat@dmsa.unipd.it and gambo@dmsa.unipd.it;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A novel parallel preconditioner for symmetric positive definite matrices is developed coupling a generalized factored sparse approximate inverse (FSAI) with an incomplete LU (ILU) factorization. The generalized FSAI, called block FSAI, is derived by requiring the preconditioned matrix to resemble a block-diagonal matrix in the sense of the minimal Frobenius norm. An incomplete block Jacobi algorithm is then effectively used to accelerate the convergence of a Krylov subspace method. The block FSAI-ILU preconditioner proves superior to both FSAI and the incomplete block Jacobi by themselves in a number of realistic finite element test cases and is fully scalable for a given number of blocks.