Mixed precision multigrid with smoothing based on incomplete Cholesky factorization

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Hauptverfasser: Vacek, Petr, Anzt, Hartwig, Carson, Erin, Kohl, Nils, Rüde, Ulrich, Tsai, Yu-Hsiang
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author Vacek, Petr
Anzt, Hartwig
Carson, Erin
Kohl, Nils
Rüde, Ulrich
Tsai, Yu-Hsiang
author_facet Vacek, Petr
Anzt, Hartwig
Carson, Erin
Kohl, Nils
Rüde, Ulrich
Tsai, Yu-Hsiang
contents Multigrid methods are popular iterative methods for solving large-scale sparse systems of linear equations. We present a mixed precision formulation of the multigrid V-cycle with general assumptions on the finite precision errors coming from the application of coarsest-level solver and smoothing. Inspired by existing analysis, we derive a bound on the relative finite precision error of the V-cycle which gives insight into how the finite precision errors from the individual components of the method may affect the overall finite precision error. We use the result to study V-cycle methods with smoothing based on incomplete Cholesky factorization. The results imply that in certain settings the precisions used for applying the IC smoothing can be significantly lower than the precision used for computing the residual, restriction, prolongation and correction on the concrete level. We perform numerical experiments using simulated floating point arithmetic with the MATLAB Advanpix toolbox as well as experiments computed on GPUs using the Ginkgo library. The experiments illustrate the theoretical findings and show that in the considered settings the IC smoothing can be applied in relatively low precisions, resulting in significant speedups (up to 1.43x) and energy savings (down to 71%) in comparison with the uniform double precision variant.
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spellingShingle Mixed precision multigrid with smoothing based on incomplete Cholesky factorization
Vacek, Petr
Anzt, Hartwig
Carson, Erin
Kohl, Nils
Rüde, Ulrich
Tsai, Yu-Hsiang
Numerical Analysis
65F10, 65N55, 65N22, 65F50, 65G50
Multigrid methods are popular iterative methods for solving large-scale sparse systems of linear equations. We present a mixed precision formulation of the multigrid V-cycle with general assumptions on the finite precision errors coming from the application of coarsest-level solver and smoothing. Inspired by existing analysis, we derive a bound on the relative finite precision error of the V-cycle which gives insight into how the finite precision errors from the individual components of the method may affect the overall finite precision error. We use the result to study V-cycle methods with smoothing based on incomplete Cholesky factorization. The results imply that in certain settings the precisions used for applying the IC smoothing can be significantly lower than the precision used for computing the residual, restriction, prolongation and correction on the concrete level. We perform numerical experiments using simulated floating point arithmetic with the MATLAB Advanpix toolbox as well as experiments computed on GPUs using the Ginkgo library. The experiments illustrate the theoretical findings and show that in the considered settings the IC smoothing can be applied in relatively low precisions, resulting in significant speedups (up to 1.43x) and energy savings (down to 71%) in comparison with the uniform double precision variant.
title Mixed precision multigrid with smoothing based on incomplete Cholesky factorization
topic Numerical Analysis
65F10, 65N55, 65N22, 65F50, 65G50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04566