Iterative solver (again) [Was: Re: [ODE] Russ'plans forODE?]

[GARY VANSICKLE]

> >Yes, I'm talking about something similar to that. Though if you are not
> >running massively parallel (as GPU has to), you can just use Gauss-
> Seidel.
> >But those are all just fancy-words. It is same as Jacobi, just meaning
> that
> >you immediatelly use available results.
> methods can only be coupled, like a mixed Jacobi/Gauss-Seidel in that case
> you may trade-off between parallelism and speed of convergence.
> 
> however as we well know from the theory of iterative linear system
> solvers,
> for large systems a method based around the biconjugate gradient
> method(Mendoza,Laugier, etc..) will
> be faster.

There's a *bi*conjugate gradient method now?!?  Good grief.

;-)