The block preconditioned conjugate gradient method on vector computers (Q761010)

We present vectorizable versions of the block preconditioners introduced by \textit{P. Concus}, \textit{G. H. Golub} and the author [(*) SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput. 6, 220-252 (1985; reviewed above)] for use with the conjugate gradient method. In (*) it was shown that the block preconditioners give less computational work than the classical point ones on conventional serial computers. Here we give numerical results for various vector computers, CDC Cyber 205, CRAY 1-S, CRAY X-MP and for several problems, which show that for most cases the block method with slight modifications, gives better results also on vector computers.