A Parallel SSOR Preconditioner for Lattice QCD
S. Fischer, A. Frommer, U. Glaessner, Th. Lippert, G. Ritzenhoefer, K. Schilling
Abstract
We present a parallelizable SSOR preconditioning scheme for Krylov subspace iterative solvers which proves to be efficient in lattice QCD applications involving Wilson fermions. Our preconditioner is based on a locally lexicographic ordering of the lattice points. In actual hybrid Monte Carlo applications with the bi-conjugate gradient stabilized method BiCGstab, we achieve a gain factor of about 2 in the number of iterations compared to conventional odd-even preconditioning. Whether this translates into similar reductions in run time will depend on the parallel computer in use. We discuss implementation issues using the `Eisenstat-trick' and machine specific advantages of the method for the APE100/Quadrics parallel computer. In a full QCD simulation with Wilson fermions on a 512-processor Quadrics QH4 we find a gain in cpu-time of a factor of 1.7 over odd-even preconditioning for a 243 x 40 lattice.
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