Parallel Solutions for Large-Scale General Sparse Nonlinear Systems of Equations

In solving application problems, many largesscale nonlinear systems of equations result in sparse Jacobian matrices. Such nonlinear systems are called sparse nonlinear systems. The irregularity of the locations of nonzero elements of a general sparse matrix makes it very difficult to generally map sparse matrix computations to multiprocessors for parallel processing in a well balanced manner. To overcome this difficulty, we define a new storage scheme for general sparse matrices in this paper. With the new storage scheme, we develop parallel algorithms to solve large-scale general sparse systems of equations by interval Newton/Generalized bisection methods which reliably find all numerical solutions within a given domain.In Section 1, we provide an introduction to the addressed problem and the interval Newton's methods. In Section 2, some currently used storage schemes for sparse sys-terns are reviewed. In Section 3, new index schemes to store general sparse matrices are reported. In Section 4, we present a parallel algorithm to evaluate a general sparse Jarobian matrix. In Section 5, we present a parallel algorithm to solve the correspond-ing interval linear 8ystem by the all-row preconditioned scheme. Conclusions and future work are discussed in Section 6.

High Performance Algorithms Based on a New Wavelet Expansion for Time Dependent Acoustic Obstacle Scattering

This paper presents a highly parallelizable numerical method to solve time dependent acoustic obstacle scattering problems.The method proposed is a generalization of the“operator expansion method”developed by Recchioni and Zirilli[SIAM J.Sci.Comput.,25(2003),1158-1186].The numerical method proposed reduces,via a perturbative approach,the solution of the scattering problem to the solution of a sequence of systems of first kind integral equations.The numerical solution of these systems of integral equations is challenging when scattering problems involving realistic obstacles and small wavelengths are solved.A computational method has been developed to solve these challenging problems with affordable computing resources.To this aim a new way of using the wavelet transform and new bases of wavelets are introduced,and a version of the operator expansion method is developed that constructs directly element by element in a fully parallelizable way.Several numerical experiments involving realistic obstacles and“small”wavelengths are proposed and high dimensional vector spaces are used in the numerical experiments.To evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm on parallel computing facilities,appropriate speed up factors are introduced and evaluated.