A Multipole Approach for Preconditioners

  • Authors:
  • Ph. Guillaume;A. Huard;C. Le Calvez

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science-Part II
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A new class of approximate inverse preconditioners is presented for solving large linear systems with an iterative method. It is at the intersection of multipole, multigrid and SPAI methods. The method consists in approximating the inverse of a matrix by a block constant matrix, instead of approximating it by a sparse matrix as in SPAI methods. It does not require more storage, or even less, and it is well suited for parallelization, both for the construction of the preconditioner and for the matrix-vector product at each iteration.