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AN APPROXIMATE MATRIX INVERSION PROCEDURE BY PARALLELIZATION OF THE SHERMAN–MORRISON FORMULA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2010
Abstract
The Sherman–Morrison formula is one scheme for computing the approximate inverse preconditioner of a large linear system of equations. However, parallelizing a preconditioning approach is not straightforward as it is necessary to include a sequential process in the matrix factorization. In this paper, we propose a formula that improves the performance of the Sherman–Morrison preconditioner by partially parallelizing the matrix factorization. This study shows that our parallel technique implemented on a PC cluster system of eight processing elements significantly reduces the computational time for the matrix factorization compared with the time taken by a single processor. Our study has also verified that the Sherman–Morrison preconditioner performs better than ILU or MR preconditioners.
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