ANALYSIS OF A CLASS OF PARALLEL

This paper proposes and analyzes a class of multigrid smoothers called the parallel multiplicative (PM) smoother by subspace decomposition techniques. It shows that the well known additive and multiplicative smoothers and the JSOR smoother are special cases of the PM smoother, and their smoothing properties can be obtained directly from the PM analysis. Moreover, numerical results are presented in this paper to show that the JSOR smoother is more robust and effective than the damped Jacobi smoother on current MIMD parallel computers