In this paper, we discuss work in progress on a complete eigensolver based on the Invariant Subspace Decomposition Algorithm for dense symmetric matrices (SYISDA). We describe a recently developed acceleration technique that substantially reduces the overall work required by this algorithm and review the algorithmic highlights of a distributed-memory implementation of this approach. These include a fast matrix-matrix multiplication algorithm, a new approach to parallel band reduction and tridiagonalization, and a harness for coordinating the divide-and-conquer parallelism in the problem. We present performance results for the dominant kernel, dense matrix multiplication, as well as for the overall SYISDA implementation on the Intel Touchstone Delta and the Intel Paragon. 1. Introduction Computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors is an essential kernel in many applications, and several promising parallel algorithms have been investigated [26, 3, 28, 22, 25, 6]. The work presented in t...

. We give an overview of the Invariant Subspace Decomposition Algorithm for dense symmetric matrices (SYISDA) by first describing the algorithm, followed by a discussion of a parallel implementation of SYISDA on the Intel Delta. Our implementation utilizes an optimized parallel matrix multiplication implementation we have developed. Load balancing in the costly early stages of the algorithm is accomplished without redistribution of data between stages through the use of the block scattered decomposition. Computation of the invariant subspaces at each stage is done using a new tridiagonalization scheme due to Bischof and Sun. 1. Introduction Computation of all the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a dense symmetric matrix is an essential kernel in many applications. The ever-increasing computational power available from parallel computers offers the potential for solving much larger problems than could have been contemplated previously. Hardware scalability of parallel machines is freque...

The goal of the PRISM project is the development of infrastructure and algorithms for the parallel solution of eigenvalue problems. We are currently investigating a complete eigensolver based on the Invariant Subspace Decomposition Algorithm for dense symmetric matrices (SYISDA). After briefly reviewing SYISDA, we discuss the algorithmic highlights of a distributed-memory implementation of this approach. These include a fast matrix-matrix multiplication algorithm, a new approach to parallel band reduction and tridiagonalization, and a harness for coordinating the divide-and-conquer parallelism in the problem. We also present performance results of these kernels as well as the overall SYISDA implementation on the Intel Touchstone Delta prototype. 1. Introduction Computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors is an essential kernel in many applications, and several promising parallel algorithms have been investigated [29, 24, 3, 27, 21]. The work presented in this paper is part of the PRI...

In this paper, we give an overview of the Invariant Subspace Decomposition Algorithm for banded symmetric matrices and describe a sequential implementation of this algorithm. Our implementation uses a specialized routine for performing banded matrix multiplication together with successive band reduction, yielding a sequential algorithm that is competitive for large problems with the LAPACK QR code in computing all of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a dense symmetric matrix. Performance results are given on a variety of machines. 1 Introduction Computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors is an essential kernel in many applications, and several promising parallel algorithms have been investigated [8, 11, 7]. The work presented in this paper is part of the PRISM (Parallel Research on Invariant Subspace Methods) Project, which involves researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, the Supercomputing Research Center, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Kent...