Topic: preconditioning

Erik Boman discusses preconditioning for asynchronous linear solvers. Inner products create synchronization requirements in Krylov methods, while preconditioners can also improve iterations such as Richardson's method. The talk focuses on asynchronous incomplete factorizations and introduces ATS-ILU, an iterative incomplete LU method with synchronous and asynchronous versions that performs competitively with ParILU.

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