f11mhc returns error bounds for the solution of a real sparse system of linear equations with multiple right-hand sides, or . It improves the solution by iterative refinement in standard precision, in order to reduce the backward error as much as possible.
The function may be called by the names: f11mhc, nag_sparse_direct_real_gen_refine or nag_superlu_refine_lu.
3Description
f11mhc returns the backward errors and estimated bounds on the forward errors for the solution of a real system of linear equations with multiple right-hand sides or . The function handles each right-hand side vector (stored as a column of the matrix ) independently, so we describe the function of f11mhc in terms of a single right-hand side and solution .
Given a computed solution , the function computes the component-wise backward error
. This is the size of the smallest relative perturbation in each element of and such that if is the exact solution of a perturbed system:
Then the function estimates a bound for the component-wiseforward error in the computed solution, defined by:
where is the true solution.
The function uses the
factorization computed by f11mec and the solution computed by f11mfc.
4References
Golub G H and Van Loan C F (1996) Matrix Computations (3rd Edition) Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
5Arguments
1: – Nag_OrderTypeInput
On entry: the order argument specifies the two-dimensional storage scheme being used, i.e., row-major ordering or column-major ordering. C language defined storage is specified by . See Section 3.1.3 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for a more detailed explanation of the use of this argument.
Constraint:
or .
2: – Nag_TransTypeInput
On entry: specifies whether or is solved.
is solved.
is solved.
Constraint:
or .
3: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the order of the matrix .
Constraint:
.
4: – const IntegerInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array icolzp
must be at least
.
On entry: the new column index array of sparse matrix . See Section 2.1.3 in the F11 Chapter Introduction.
5: – const IntegerInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array irowix
must be at least
, the number of nonzeros of the sparse matrix .
On entry: the row index array of sparse matrix . See Section 2.1.3 in the F11 Chapter Introduction.
6: – const doubleInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array a
must be at least
, the number of nonzeros of the sparse matrix .
On entry: the array of nonzero values in the sparse matrix .
7: – const IntegerInput
On entry: the column permutation which defines , the row permutation which defines , plus associated data structures as computed by f11mec.
8: – const IntegerInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array il
must be at least
as large as the dimension of the array of the same name in f11mec.
On entry: records the sparsity pattern of matrix as computed by f11mec.
9: – const doubleInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array lval
must be at least
as large as the dimension of the array of the same name in f11mec.
On entry: records the nonzero values of matrix and some nonzero values of matrix as computed by f11mec.
10: – const IntegerInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array iu
must be at least
as large as the dimension of the array of the same name in f11mec.
On entry: records the sparsity pattern of matrix as computed by f11mec.
11: – const doubleInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array uval
must be at least
as large as the dimension of the array of the same name in f11mec.
On entry: records some nonzero values of matrix as computed by f11mec.
12: – IntegerInput
On entry: , the number of right-hand sides in .
Constraint:
.
13: – const doubleInput
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array b
must be at least
when
;
when
.
The th element of the matrix is stored in
when ;
when .
On entry: the right-hand side matrix .
14: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array b.
Constraints:
if ,
;
if , .
15: – doubleInput/Output
Note: the dimension, dim, of the array x
must be at least
when
;
when
.
The th element of the matrix is stored in
when ;
when .
On entry: the solution matrix , as returned by f11mfc.
On exit: the improved solution matrix .
16: – IntegerInput
On entry: the stride separating row or column elements (depending on the value of order) in the array x.
Constraints:
if ,
;
if , .
17: – doubleOutput
On exit: contains an estimated error bound for the th solution vector, that is, the th column of , for .
18: – doubleOutput
On exit: contains the component-wise backward error bound for the th solution vector, that is, the th column of , for .
19: – 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: .
On entry, . Constraint: .
NE_INT_2
On entry, and . Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
On entry, and . Constraint: .
On entry, and .
Constraint: .
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.
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.
7Accuracy
The bounds returned in ferr are not rigorous, because they are estimated, not computed exactly; but in practice they almost always overestimate the actual error.
8Parallelism and Performance
Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
f11mhc is threaded by NAG for parallel execution in multithreaded implementations of the NAG Library.
f11mhc makes calls to BLAS and/or LAPACK routines, which may be threaded within the vendor library used by this implementation. Consult the documentation for the vendor library for further information.
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
At most five steps of iterative refinement are performed, but usually only one or two steps are required.
Estimating the forward error involves solving a number of systems of linear equations of the form or ;
10Example
This example solves the system of equations using iterative refinement and to compute the forward and backward error bounds, where
Here is nonsymmetric and must first be factorized by f11mec.