PIPARMQ(3) ScaLAPACK routine of NEC Numeric Library Collection PIPARMQ(3) NAME PIPARMQ - sets problem and machine dependent parameters useful for PxH- SEQR and its subroutines SYNOPSIS INTEGER FUNCTION PIPARMQ( ICTXT, ISPEC, NAME, OPTS, N, ILO, IHI, LWORKNB ) INTEGER ICTXT, IHI, ILO, ISPEC, LWORKNB, N CHARACTER NAME*( * ), OPTS*( * ) PURPOSE This program sets problem and machine dependent parameters useful for PxHSEQR and its subroutines. It is called whenever PILAENVX is called with 12 <= ISPEC <= 16 ARGUMENTS ICTXT (local input) INTEGER On entry, ICTXT specifies the BLACS context handle, indicat- ing the global context of the operation. The context itself is global, but the value of ICTXT is local. ISPEC (global input) INTEGER ISPEC specifies which tunable parameter PIPARMQ should return. ISPEC=12: (INMIN) Matrices of order nmin or less are sent directly to PxLAHQR, the implicit double shift QR algorithm. NMIN must be at least 11. ISPEC=13: (INWIN) Size of the deflation window. This is best set greater than or equal to the number of simultaneous shifts NS. Larger matrices benefit from larger deflation windows. ISPEC=14: (INIBL) Determines when to stop nibbling and invest in an (expensive) multi-shift QR sweep. If the aggressive early deflation subroutine finds LD converged eigenvalues from an order NW deflation window and LD.GT.(NW*NIBBLE)/100, then the next QR sweep is skipped and early deflation is applied immediately to the remaining active diagonal block. Setting PIPARMQ(ISPEC=14) = 0 causes PxLAQR0 to skip a multi-shift QR sweep whenever early deflation finds a converged eigenvalue. Setting PIPARMQ(ISPEC=14) greater than or equal to 100 prevents PxLAQR0 from skipping a multi-shift QR sweep. ISPEC=15: (NSHFTS) The number of simultaneous shifts in a multi-shift QR iteration. ISPEC=16: (IACC22) PIPARMQ is set to 1 or 2 with the following meanings. 1: During the multi-shift QR sweep, PxLAQR5 and/or xLAQR6 accumulates reflections and uses matrix-matrix multiply to update the far-from-diagonal matrix entries. 2: During the multi-shift QR sweep. PxLAQR5 accumulates reflections and takes advantage of 2-by-2 block structure during matrix-matrix multiplies. ( IACC22=0 is valid in LAPACK but not here. Householder reflections are always accumulated for the performance consideration. If xTRMM is slower than xGEMM or NB is small, PIPARMQ(ISPEC=16)=1 may be more efficient than PIPARMQ(ISPEC=16)=2 despite the greater level of arithmetic work implied by the latter choice. ) NAME (global input) character string Name of the calling subroutine OPTS (global input) character string This is a concatenation of the string arguments to TTQRE. N (global input) integer scalar N is the order of the Hessenberg matrix H. ILO (global input) INTEGER IHI (global input) INTEGER It is assumed that H is already upper triangular in rows and columns 1:ILO-1 and IHI+1:N. LWORKNB (global input) INTEGER The amount of workspace available or the blockfactor. Further Details =============== Little is known about how best to choose these parameters. It is possible to use different values of the parameters for each of PCHSEQR, PDHSEQR, PSHSEQR and PZHSEQR. It is probably best to choose different parameters for different matri- ces and different parameters at different times during the iteration, but this has not been fully implemented --- yet. The best choices of most of the parameters depend in an ill-understood way on the relative execution rate of PxLAQR3 and PxLAQR5 and on the nature of each particular eigenvalue problem. Experiment may be the only practical way to determine which choices are most effective. Following is a list of default values supplied by PIPARMQ. These defaults may be adjusted in order to attain better performance in any particular computational environment. PIPARMQ(ISPEC=12) The PxLAQR1 vs PxLAQR0 crossover point. Default: 220. (Must be at least 11.) PIPARMQ(ISPEC=13) Recommended deflation window size. This depends on ILO, IHI and NS, the number of simultaneous shifts returned by PIPARMQ(ISPEC=15). The default for (IHI-ILO+1).LE.500 is NS. The default for (IHI-ILO+1).GT.500 is 3*NS/2. PIPARMQ(ISPEC=14) Nibble crossover point. The default for the serial case is 14. The default for the parallel case is 335 * N**(-0.44) * NPROCS. PIPARMQ(ISPEC=15) Number of simultaneous shifts, NS. a multi-shift QR iteration. If IHI-ILO+1 is ... greater than ...but less ... the or equal to ... than default is 0 30 NS = 2+ 30 60 NS = 4+ 60 150 NS = 10 150 590 NS = ** 590 3000 NS = 64 3000 6000 NS = 128 6000 12000 NS = 256 12000 24000 NS = 512 24000 48000 NS = 1024 48000 96000 NS = 2048 96000 INFINITY NS = 4096 (+) By default matrices of this order are passed to the implicit double shift routine PxLAQR1. See PIPARMQ(ISPEC=12) above. These values of NS are used only in case of a rare PxLAQR1 failure. (**) The asterisks (**) indicate an ad-hoc function increasing from 10 to 64. PIPARMQ(ISPEC=16) Select structured matrix multiply. (See ISPEC=16 above for details.) Default: 3. ScaLAPACK routine 31 October 2017 PIPARMQ(3)