MSPAI
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Modified Sparse Approximate Inverses
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Based upon the well-known sparse approximate inverse preconditioner SPAI,
we developed the modified sparse approximate inverse (MSPAI) preconditioner.
Note that there is a scalable implementation of Factorized Sparse Approximate
Inverses (FSPAI) as well.
Theory
MSPAI is a preconditioner for large sparse and ill-conditioned systems of
linear equations. We extended the basic SPAI minimization
to target form and further generalized it in order to add additional probing constraints:
For an overview of the versatile employment possibilities of our MSPAI formulation,
see this pdf taken from here.
Implementation and Features
The entire implementation is done in C++ with parallelization in MPI. Except the Block
SPAI approach, we cover the full functionality of SPAI 3.2.
Methodical improvements
- Extension to target form: allow probing.
- Support for explicit and inverse approximations, both in factorized
and unfactorized form and probing of Schur complements, see pdf. - Improve given factorized preconditioners such as ILU, AINV, FSAI,
FSPAI, etc subject to probing subspaces. - Compute sparse spectrally equivalent approximations to dense or
even full matrices.
Technical improvements
- Support for complex valued problems.
- Support for sparse QR methods using CSparse by Tim Davis.
- Caching approach to avoid redundant QR decompositions.
- Implementation of QR updates to accelerate pattern update steps.
- Support for maximum sparsity patterns.
- Arbitrary start patterns, i.e. possibility to compute a static SPAI
without pattern update steps.
Todo
- Mex interface for MATLAB.
- PetSc interface.
- Support for other LAPACK implementations than ATLAS.
- Wider coverage of file formats for sparse matrices, now support for
Matrix Market format only. - Full support for complex problems in all features.
Download
MSPAI 1.2
- Source code tar ball: mspai-1.2.tar.gz.
- Manual, closely adapted from SPAI 3.2 manual: mspai-1.2.pdf.
- HTML documentation of source code: htmlonly-mspai-1.2.tar.gz.
- Source code and HTML documentation: mspai-1.2-html.tar.gz.
Some Theses on MSPAI
- Ph.D. thesis about MSPAI, both theory and implementation: mediaTUM.
- Ph.D. thesis about SPAI, MSPAI, and FSPAI both theory and implementation: mediaTUM
- Details about sparse QR methods in SPAI applications (german only): pdf.
- Further details about implementation (german only): pdf.
Tested environments
- InfiniBand-Cluster of the Lehrstuhl Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation/
Parallelrechnerarchitektur of Technische Universtität München:- 128 processors: AMD Opteron™ Processor 850
- Architecture: x86_64
- Compiler version: gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
- Libraries: lapack 3.0, csparse 2.2.0, MPI based on MPICH 1.2.7
- i686-pc-linux-gnu:
- Processor:
- Intel® Pentium® D CPU 2.80GHz,
- Intel® Pentium® M CPU 1.60GHz
- Architecture: i686
- Compiler version:
- gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3), Intel® Compiler icpc version 9.1
- gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)
- Libraries:
- lapack 3.1.1, csparse 2.2.0
- lapack 3.1, csparse 2.2.0
- Processor:
MSPAI is provided "as is", without warranty and support of any kind, express
or
implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability,
fitness for a
particular purpose, title and non-infringement. In no event
shall the copyright holders
or anyone distributing MSPAI be liable for any
damages or other liability, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, arising
from, out of or in connection with MSPAI or the use
or other dealings in MSPAI.
Some References
Papers
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Theses
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Further
- Short summary on SPAI with core reference list: summary.pdf
- Extended reference list: extended.pdf
Successful Applications
MSPAI
- see References (Section 1.5),
e.g. Smoothing and Regularization with MSPAI
SPAI
- see References (Section 1.5.3),
e.g. Alleon, G., Benzi, M., and Giraud, L.: Sparse approximate inverse preconditioning for dense linear systems arising in computational electromagnetics. Numerical Algorithms, Volume 16(1), p. 1-15 (1997)
Authors
- Thomas Huckle
- Matous Sedlacek
- Alexander Kallischko
License
MSPAI: Modified Sparse Approximate Inverses
Copyright © 2007-2013, Matous Sedlacek
Chair of Scientific Computing in Computer Science - Informatics V
Technische Universität München
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the
terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with
this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
If you obtain any results with MSPAI we would appreciate that you refer to MSPAI.
Funding
This work has partially been funded by Bund der Freunde der Technischen Universität München e.V. (BdF),
Antrag 2008-09.
Further work on Sparse Approximate Inverses
- SPAI: Parallel Implementation on SPAI — Sparse Approximate Inverses:
http://www.computational.unibas.ch/software/spai/ - FSPAI: Parallel implementation of FSPAI — Factorized Sparse Approximate Inverses:
http://www5.in.tum.de/wiki/index.php/FSPAI - PARASAILS: Parallel Sparse Approximate Inverse (Least-Squares) Preconditioner:
https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/parasails/parasails.html - Hypre: Software on high performance preconditioners containing a PARASAILS module:
https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/linear_solvers/sls_hypre.html