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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 105
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 30

Block Alternating Two-Stage Methods for Singular Systems

H. Migallón1, V. Migallón2 and J. Penadés2

1Department of Physics and Computer Architectures, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain
2Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Alicante, Spain

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "Block Alternating Two-Stage Methods for Singular Systems", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 30, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.105.30
Keywords: block two-stage methods, alternating iterations, singular systems, parallel computing, shared memory, distributed memory.

Summary
In this paper, we consider the problem of solving linear systems where the matrix is singular but the equations are consistent. Block two-stage methods in which the inner iterations are performed using alternating methods are studied. These methods are ideal for parallel processing and provide a very general setting to study parallel block methods including overlapping. Convergence properties of these methods are studied when the matrix in question is either M-matrix or symmetric positive semidefinite matrix. The reported experiments show the behavior and effectiveness of the designed parallel algorithms for the solution of Markov chains by exploiting the benefits of shared memory inside the nodes of current SMP supercomputers.

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