| -ksp_gcr_restart <restart> | - the number of stored vectors to orthogonalize against |
Restarts are solves with x0 not equal to zero. When a restart occurs, the initial starting solution is given by the current estimate for x which was obtained by the last restart iterations of the GCR algorithm.
Unlike GMRES and FGMRES, when using GCR, the solution and residual vector can be directly accessed at any iterate, with zero computational cost, via a call to KSPBuildSolution() and KSPBuildResidual() respectively.
This implementation of GCR will only apply the stopping condition test whenever ksp->its > ksp->chknorm, where ksp->chknorm is specified via the command line argument -ksp_check_norm_iteration or via the function KSPSetCheckNormIteration(). Hence the residual norm reported by the monitor and stored in the residual history will be listed as 0.0 before this iteration. It is actually not 0.0; just not calculated.
The method implemented requires the storage of 2 x restart + 1 vectors, twice as much as GMRES. Support only for right preconditioning.
Contributed by Dave May
| 1. | - S. C. Eisenstat, H. C. Elman, and H. C. Schultz. Variational iterative methods for nonsymmetric systems of linear equations. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 20, 1983 |