Block Jacobi Methods



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Block Jacobi Methods

 

Block versions of the Jacobi preconditioner can be derived by a partitioning of the variables. If the index set is partitioned as with the sets mutually disjoint, then

The preconditioner is now a block-diagonal matrix.

Often, natural choices for the partitioning suggest themselves:



Jack Dongarra
Mon Nov 20 08:52:54 EST 1995