Quasi-Optimal Elimination Trees for 2D Grids with Singularities

We construct quasi-optimal elimination trees for 2D finite element meshes with singularities. These trees minimize the complexity of the solution of the discrete system. The computational cost estimates of the elimination process model the execution of the multifrontal algorithms in serial and in pa...

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Published in:Scientific programming 2015-01, Vol.2015 (2015), p.1-18
Main Authors: Lenharth, A., Nguyen, D., Pingali, K., Moshkov, M., AbouEisha, H., Gurgul, P., Goik, D., Woźniak, M., Jopek, K., Paszyński, M., Paszyńska, A., Calo, V. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Computational efficiency
Cost estimates
Dynamic programming
Finite element method
Functionals
Mathematical models
Singularities
Trees
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Summary:We construct quasi-optimal elimination trees for 2D finite element meshes with singularities. These trees minimize the complexity of the solution of the discrete system. The computational cost estimates of the elimination process model the execution of the multifrontal algorithms in serial and in parallel shared-memory executions. Since the meshes considered are a subspace of all possible mesh partitions, we call these minimizers quasi-optimal. We minimize the cost functionals using dynamic programming. Finding these minimizers is more computationally expensive than solving the original algebraic system. Nevertheless, from the insights provided by the analysis of the dynamic programming minima, we propose a heuristic construction of the elimination trees that has cost ONelog⁡Ne, where Ne is the number of elements in the mesh. We show that this heuristic ordering has similar computational cost to the quasi-optimal elimination trees found with dynamic programming and outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives in our numerical experiments.
ISSN:1058-9244
1875-919X
DOI:10.1155/2015/303024