A preliminary out-of-core extension of a parallel multifrontal solver

  • Authors:
  • Emmanuel Agullo;Abdou Guermouche;Jean-Yves L'Excellent

  • Affiliations:
  • LIP-ENS Lyon, France;LaBRI, Bordeaux, France;INRIA and LIP-ENS Lyon, France

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The memory usage of sparse direct solvers can be the bottleneck to solve large-scale problems. This paper describes a first implementation of an out-of-core extension to a parallel multifrontal solver (MUMPS). We show that larger problems can be solved on limited-memory machines with reasonable performance, and we illustrate the behaviour of our parallel out-of-core factorization. Then we use simulations to discuss how our algorithms can be modified to solve much larger problems.