Vecharynski, Eugene; Saad, Yousef; Sosonkina, Masha Graph partitioning using matrix values for preconditioning symmetric positive definite systems. (English) Zbl 1290.65025 SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 36, No. 1, A63-A87 (2014). Summary: Prior to the parallel solution of a large linear system, it is required to perform a partitioning of its equations/unknowns. Standard partitioning algorithms are designed using the considerations of the efficiency of the parallel matrix-vector multiplication, and typically disregard the information on the coefficients of the matrix. This information, however, may have a significant impact on the quality of the preconditioning procedure used within the chosen iterative scheme. In the present paper, we suggest a spectral partitioning algorithm, which takes into account the information on the matrix coefficients and constructs partitions with respect to the objective of enhancing the quality of the nonoverlapping additive Schwarz (block Jacobi) preconditioning for symmetric positive definite linear systems. For a set of test problems with large variations in magnitudes of matrix coefficients, our numerical experiments demonstrate a noticeable improvement in the convergence of the resulting solution scheme when using the new partitioning approach. Cited in 8 Documents MSC: 65F08 Preconditioners for iterative methods 65F10 Iterative numerical methods for linear systems Keywords:graph partitioning; iterative linear system solution; preconditioning; Cauchy-Bunyakowski-Schwarz (CBS) constant; symmetric positive definite; spectral partitioning; numerical experiments; convergence Software:Scotch; JOSTLE; Chaco; METIS; SPARSKIT PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{E. Vecharynski} et al., SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 36, No. 1, A63--A87 (2014; Zbl 1290.65025) Full Text: DOI arXiv