Ph.D
Group : Parallel Systems

Méthodes de préconditionnement pour la résolution de systèmes linéaires sur des machines massivement parallèles

Starts on 10/09/2010
Advisor : GRIGORI, Laura
[GRIGORI Laura]

Funding :
Affiliation : Université Paris-Saclay
Laboratory : LRI Grand Large

Defended on 10/04/2014, committee :

Research activities :

Abstract :
This thesis addresses a new class of preconditioners which aims at accelerating solving large sparse systems arising in scientific and engineering problem by using preconditioned iterative methods. To apply these preconditioners, the input matrix needs to be reordered with K-way nested dissection. We also introduce an overlapping technique that adapts the idea of overlapping subdomains from domain decomposition methods to nested dissection based methods to improve the convergence of these preconditioners. Results show that such overlapping technique improves the convergence rate of Nested SSOR (NSSOR) and Nested Modified Incomplete LU with Rowsum property (NMILUR) precondtioners that we worked on. We also present the data distribution and parallel algorithms for implementing these preconditioners. Results show that on a 400x400x400 regular grid, the number of iterations with Nested Filtering Factorization preconditioner (NFF) increases slightly while increasing the number of subdomains up to 2048. In terms of runtime performance on Curie supercomputer, it scales up to 2048 cores and it is 2.6 times faster than the domain decomposition preconditioner Restricted Additive Schwarz (RAS) as implemented in PETSc.

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MICRO VISUALIZATIONS: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF VISUALIZATIONS FOR SMALL DISPLAY SPACES
The topic of this habilitation is the study of very small data visualizations, micro visualizations, in display contexts that can only dedicate minimal rendering space for data representations. For several years, together with my collaborators, I have been studying human perception, interaction, and analysis with micro visualizations in multiple contexts. In this document I bring together three of my research streams related to micro visualizations: data glyphs, where my joint research focused on studying the perception of small-multiple micro visualizations, word-scale visualizations, where my joint research focused on small visualizations embedded in text-documents, and small mobile data visualizations for smartwatches or fitness trackers. I consider these types of small visualizations together under the umbrella term ``micro visualizations.'' Micro visualizations are useful in multiple visualization contexts and I have been working towards a better understanding of the complexities involved in designing and using micro visualizations. Here, I define the term micro visualization, summarize my own and other past research and design guidelines and outline several design spaces for different types of micro visualizations based on some of the work I was involved in since my PhD.