Some observations on weighted GMRES

Stefan Guettel; Jennifer Pestana

doi:10.1007/s11075-013-9820-x

Some observations on weighted GMRES

Stefan Guettel, Jennifer Pestana

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We investigate the convergence of the weighted GMRES method for solving linear systems. Two different weighting variants are compared with unweighted GMRES for three model problems, giving a phenomenological explanation of cases where weighting improves convergence, and a case where weighting has no effect on the convergence. We also present a new alternative implementation of the weighted Arnoldi algorithm which under known circumstances will be favourable in terms of computational complexity. These implementations of weighted GMRES are compared for a large number of examples. We find that weighted GMRES may outperform unweighted GMRES for some problems, but more often this method is not competitive with other Krylov subspace methods like GMRES with deflated restarting or BICGSTAB, in particular when a preconditioner is used.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	733-752
Number of pages	21
Journal	Numerical Algorithms
Volume	67
Issue number	4
Early online date	10 Jan 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-013-9820-x
Publication status	Published - Dec 2014

Keywords

weighted GMRES
linear systems
Krylov subspace method
harmonic Ritz values
algorithms
algebra

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