Jacobi Preconditioning



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Jacobi Preconditioning

 

  The simplest preconditioner consists of just the diagonal of the matrix:

This is known as the (point) Jacobi preconditioner.

It is possible to use this preconditioner without using any extra storage beyond that of the matrix itself. However, division operations are usually quite costly, so in practice storage is allocated for the reciprocals of the matrix diagonal. This strategy applies to many preconditioners below.





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