Parallel two level block ILU preconditioning techniques for solving large sparse linear systems

We discuss issues related to domain decomposition and multilevel preconditioning techniques which are often employed for solving large sparse linear systems in parallel computations. We introduce a class of parallel preconditioning techniques for general sparse linear systems based on a two level block ILU factorization strategy. We give some new data structures and strategies to construct local coeecient matrix and local Schur complement matrix in each processor. The preconditioner constructed is fast and robust for solving certain large sparse matrices. Numerical experiments show that our domain based two level block ILU preconditioners are more robust and more eecient than some published ILU preconditioners based on Schur complement techniques for parallel sparse matrix solutions.