Tuesday July 26/7:30
MS28/Harbor 2
Parallel Elliptic Solvers
The solution of elliptic pde's is often one of the costliest phases in computer models in a number of disciplines. In this minisymposium, recent developments and research trends related to parallel elliptic solvers will be presented. Several different algorithmic approaches will be covered. The talks will address the interplay between algorithms, parallel architectures, and software issues. Each talk will use problems from some area of computational science to examine performance, but at the same time stress the applicability of the algorithmic ideas across disciplines. One of the goals is to reflect upon the extent to which the promise of parallelism has been realized in the context of elliptic solvers, and to distinguish surmountable problems from fundamental limits. (Further information about this session is accessible through MOSAIC, using the URL http://www-parallel-elliptic.cs.uiuc.edu.)
Organizer: Faisal Saied
University of Illinois, Urbana
- 7:30: Parallel Direct Solvers for Sparse Linear Systems
Michael T. Heath and Padma Raghavan, University of Illinois, Urbana
- 8:00: Parallel Krylov Subspace Methods and Fast Elliptic Solvers
Michael Ham, University of Illinois, Urbana, and Faisal Saied, Organizer
- 8:30: A Comparison of Concurrent Multigrid and Domain Decomposition
Eric F. Van de Velde, California Institute of Technology
- 9:00: Medium Level Software Kernels for Parallel Domain Decomposition
William D. Gropp, Argonne National Laboratory, and Barry Smith, University of California, Los Angeles