Orderings for Factorized Sparse Approximate Inverse Preconditioners

  • Authors:
  • Michele Benzi;Miroslav Tuma

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The influence of reorderings on the performance of factorized sparse approximate inverse preconditioners is considered. Some theoretical results on the effect of orderings on the fill-in and decay behavior of the inverse factors of a sparse matrix are presented. It is shown experimentally that certain reorderings, like minimum degree and nested dissection, can be very beneficial. The benefit consists of a reduction in the storage and time required for constructing the preconditioner, and of faster convergence of the preconditioned iteration in many cases of practical interest.