Computational Mechanics using High Performance Computing
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping

Chapter 5

A Survey of Asynchronous Iterative Methods

The asynchronous iterations are presented here as a generalisation of the usual successive approximation method applied to a fixed point mapping defined on a product space. Our aim is to give an account about abilities of asynchronous iteration in the scope of various parallel computational fields. Some comparison aspects with respect to other computational techniques are presented. The chapter ends with a new property about an asynchronous variable subdomains decomposition method for second order elliptic problems, which can be helpful with respect to dynamic load balancing.

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