f11dtc computes a block diagonal incomplete factorization of a complex sparse non-Hermitian matrix, represented in coordinate storage format. The diagonal blocks may be composed of arbitrary rows and the corresponding columns, and may overlap. This factorization can be used to provide a block Jacobi or additive Schwarz preconditioner, for use in combination with f11bscorf11duc.
The function may be called by the names: f11dtc, nag_sparse_complex_gen_precon_bdilu or nag_sparse_nherm_precon_bdilu.
3Description
f11dtc computes an incomplete factorization (see Meijerink and Van der Vorst (1977) and Meijerink and Van der Vorst (1981)) of the (possibly overlapping)
diagonal blocks , , of a complex sparse non-Hermitian
matrix . The factorization is intended primarily for use as a block Jacobi or additive Schwarz preconditioner (see Saad (1996)), with one of the iterative solvers f11bscandf11duc.
The nb diagonal blocks need not consist of consecutive rows and columns of , but may be composed of arbitrarily indexed rows, and the corresponding columns, as defined in the arguments indb and istb. Any given row or column index may appear in more than one diagonal block, resulting in overlap. Each diagonal block , , is factorized as:
where
and is lower triangular with unit diagonal elements, is diagonal, is upper triangular with unit diagonals, and are permutation matrices, and is a remainder matrix.
The amount of fill-in occurring in the factorization of block can vary from zero to complete fill, and can be controlled by specifying either the maximum level of fill , or the drop tolerance .
The parameter defines the pivoting strategy to be used in block . The options currently available are no pivoting, user-defined pivoting, partial pivoting by columns for stability, and complete pivoting by rows for sparsity and by columns for stability. The factorization may optionally be modified to preserve the row-sums of the original block matrix.
The sparse matrix is represented in coordinate storage (CS) format (see Section 2.1.1 in the F11 Chapter Introduction). The array a stores all the nonzero elements of the matrix , while arrays irow and icol store the corresponding row and column indices respectively. Multiple nonzero elements may not be specified for the same row and column index.
The preconditioning matrices , , are returned in terms of the CS representations of the matrices
4References
Meijerink J and Van der Vorst H (1977) An iterative solution method for linear systems of which the coefficient matrix is a symmetric M-matrix Math. Comput.31 148–162
Meijerink J and Van der Vorst H (1981) Guidelines for the usage of incomplete decompositions in solving sets of linear equations as they occur in practical problems J. Comput. Phys.44 134–155
Saad Y (1996) Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems PWS Publishing Company, Boston, MA
5Arguments
1: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the order of the matrix .
Constraint:
.
2: – IntegerInput
On entry: the number of nonzero elements in the matrix .
Constraint:
.
3: – ComplexInput/Output
On entry: the nonzero elements in the matrix , ordered by increasing row index, and by increasing column index within each row. Multiple entries for the same row and column indices are not permitted. The function f11znc may be used to order the elements in this way.
On exit: the first nnz entries of a contain the nonzero elements of and the next nnzc entries contain the elements of the matrices
, for stored consecutively. Within each block the matrix elements are ordered by increasing row index, and by increasing column index within each row.
4: – IntegerInput
On entry: the dimension of the arrays a, irow and icol. These arrays must be of sufficient size to store both (nnz elements) and (nnzc elements).
Note: the minimum value for la is only appropriate if lfill and dtol are set such that minimal fill-in occurs. If this is not the case then we recommend that la is set much larger than the minimum value indicated in the constraint.
Constraint:
.
5: – IntegerInput/Output
6: – IntegerInput/Output
On entry: the row and column indices of the nonzero elements supplied in a.
Constraints:
irow and icol must satisfy these constraints (which may be imposed by a call to f11znc):
and , for ;
either or both and , for .
On exit: the row and column indices of the nonzero elements returned in a.
7: – IntegerInput
On entry: the number of diagonal blocks to factorize.
Constraint:
.
8: – const IntegerInput
On entry: , for , holds the indices in arrays indb, ipivp, ipivq and idiag that, on successful exit from this function, define block . Let
denote the number of rows in block ; then , for . Thus, holds the sum of the number of rows in all blocks plus .
Constraint:
, for .
9: – const IntegerInput
On entry: indb must hold the row indices appearing in each diagonal block, stored consecutively. Thus the elements , for , are the row indices in the
th block, for .
On entry: if its value is the maximum level of fill allowed in the decomposition of the block (see Section 9.2 in f11dnc). A negative value of indicates that will be used to control the fill in block instead.
12: – const doubleInput
On entry: if then is used as a drop tolerance in block to control the fill-in (see Section 9.2 in f11dnc); otherwise is not referenced.
Constraint:
if ,
, for .
13: – const Nag_SparseNsym_PivInput
On entry: , for , specifies the pivoting strategy to be adopted in the block as follows:
No pivoting is carried out.
Pivoting is carried out according to the user-defined input values of ipivp and ipivq.
Partial pivoting by columns for stability is carried out.
Complete pivoting by rows for sparsity, and by columns for stability, is carried out.
Suggested value:
, for .
Constraint:
, , or , for .
14: – const Nag_SparseNsym_FactInput
On entry: , for , indicates whether or not the factorization in block should be modified to preserve row-sums (see Section 9.4 in f11dnc).
The factorization is modified.
The factorization is not modified.
Constraint:
or , for .
15: – IntegerInput/Output
16: – IntegerInput/Output
On entry: if , and must specify the row and column indices of the element used as a pivot at elimination stage of the factorization of the block. Otherwise ipivp and ipivq need not be initialized.
Constraint:
if , the elements to of ipivp and ipivq must both hold valid permutations of the integers on .
On exit: the row and column indices of the pivot elements, arranged consecutively for each block, as for indb. If and , the element in row and column of was used as the pivot at elimination stage .
17: – IntegerOutput
On exit: , gives the index in the arrays a, irow and icol of row of the matrix , for and .
contains .
18: – IntegerOutput
On exit: , gives the index in the arrays a, irow and icol of the diagonal element in row of the matrix , for and .
19: – Integer *Output
On exit: the sum total number of nonzero elements in the matrices
, for .
20: – IntegerOutput
On exit: if it gives the number of pivots which were modified during the factorization to ensure that exists.
If
no pivot modifications were required, but a local restart occurred (see Section 9.3 in f11dnc). The quality of the preconditioner will generally depend on the returned values of , for .
If is large, for some , the preconditioner may not be satisfactory. In this case it may be advantageous to call f11dtc again with an increased value of , a reduced value of , or .
21: – NagError *Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).
6Error Indicators and Warnings
NE_ALLOC_FAIL
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.1.2 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_BAD_PARAM
On entry, argument had an illegal value.
NE_INT
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: .
On entry, .
Constraint: .
NE_INT_2
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
NE_INT_3
On entry, , and .
Constraint: .
NE_INT_ARRAY
On entry, and . Constraint: , for .
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR
An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
See Section 7.5 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_INVALID_CS
On entry, and . Constraint: , for .
On entry, and . Constraint: , for .
NE_INVALID_ROWCOL_PIVOT
On entry, the user-supplied value of ipivp for block lies outside its range.
On entry, the user-supplied value of ipivp for block was repeated.
On entry, the user-supplied value of ipivq for block lies outside its range.
On entry, the user-supplied value of ipivq for block was repeated.
NE_NO_LICENCE
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
The number of nonzero entries in the decomposition is too large.
The decomposition has been terminated before completion.
Either increase la, or reduce the fill by reducing lfill, or increasing dtol.
7Accuracy
The accuracy of the factorization of each block will be determined by the size of the elements that are dropped and the size of any modifications made to the pivot elements. If these sizes are small then the computed factors will correspond to a matrix close to . The factorization can generally be made more accurate by increasing the level of fill , or by reducing the drop tolerance with .
If f11dtc is used in combination with f11bscorf11duc, the more accurate the factorization the fewer iterations will be required. However, the cost of the decomposition will also generally increase.
8Parallelism and Performance
Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
f11dtc is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.
Please consult the X06 Chapter Introduction for information on how to control and interrogate the OpenMP environment used within this function. Please also consult the Users' Note for your implementation for any additional implementation-specific information.
9Further Comments
f11dtc calls f11dnc
internally for each block
. The comments and advice provided in
Section 9 in f11dnc on timing, control of
fill, algorithmic details, and choice of parameters, are all
therefore, relevant to f11dtc, if interpreted blockwise.
10Example
This example program reads in a sparse matrix and then defines a block partitioning of the row indices with a user-supplied overlap and computes an overlapping incomplete factorization suitable for use as an additive Schwarz preconditioner. Such a factorization is used for this purpose in the example program of f11duc.