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Foil 31 Red Black Parallel Gauss Seidel III

From Collection of Extra Foils for CPS615 PDE Iterative Solution Discussion CPS615 Spring Semester 00 -- March 00. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Do normal block decomposition
Parallel Phase I: Update all Red Points
  • Communicate black points at k-1 to halo in each processor
  • Compute red points to iterate k
Parallel Phase II: Update all Black Points
  • Communicate red points at k to halo in each processor
  • Compute black points to iterate k
This has similar efficiency analysis to Jacobi except a little more sensitive to latency
  • Same amount of communication but twice as many messages
In electrical power system and similar simulations, one gets irregular sparse matrices and no way to get such a clean parallel algorithm
  • In fact not clear if there is a sequential Gauss Seidel that converges



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