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Parallel computation of spectral portrait of large matrices by Davidson type methods

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The eigenanalysis of matrices or operators based only on the knowledge of the spectrum may be misleading in the non-normal case. Instead of the spectrum, one may fully characterize the spectral behavior of a non-normal matrix by analyzing its spectral portrait, i.e., the set of its resolvent norm. In this paper, we propose a parallel version of the generalized Davidson method for analyzing and plotting the spectral portrait of large non-normal matrices. We report the performance results obtained on the machine Paragon.

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Heuveline, V., Philippe, B. & Sadkane, M. Parallel computation of spectral portrait of large matrices by Davidson type methods. Numerical Algorithms 16, 55–75 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019126827697

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