Partitioning and Reordering for Spike-Based Distributed-Memory Parallel Gauss--Seidel

2022-04-01
Torun, Tugba
Torun, F. Sukru
Manguoğlu, Murat
Aykanat, Cevdet
Gauss--Seidel (GS) is a widely used iterative method for solving sparse linear sys-tems of equations and also known to be effective as a smoother in algebraic multigrid methods.Parallelization of GS is a challenging task since solving the sparse lower triangular system in GSconstitutes a sequential bottleneck at each iteration. We propose a distributed-memory parallel GS(dmpGS) by implementing a parallel sparse triangular solver (stSpike) based on the Spike algorithm.stSpike decouples the global triangular system into smaller systems that can be solved concurrentlyand requires the solution of a much smaller reduced sparse lower triangular system which constitutesa sequential bottleneck. In order to alleviate this bottleneck and to reduce the communication over-head of dmpGS, we propose a partitioning and reordering model consisting of two phases. The firstphase is a novel hypergraph partitioning model whose partitioning objective simultaneously encodesminimizing the reduced system size and the communication volume. The second phase is an in-blockrow reordering method for decreasing the nonzero count of the reduced system. Extensive experi-ments on a dataset consisting of 359 sparse linear systems verify the effectiveness of the proposedpartitioning and reordering model in terms of reducing the communication and the sequential com-putational overheads. Parallel experiments on 12 large systems using up to 320 cores demonstratethat the proposed model significantly improves the scalability of dmpGS
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T. Torun, F. S. Torun, M. Manguoğlu, and C. Aykanat, “Partitioning and Reordering for Spike-Based Distributed-Memory Parallel Gauss--Seidel,” SIAM JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING, vol. 44, pp. 99–123, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/epdf/10.1137/21M1411603.