TY - JOUR AU - Kollnig, Konrad AU - Bientinesi, Paolo AU - Di Napoli, Edoardo TI - Rational Spectral Filters with Optimal Convergence Rate JO - SIAM journal on scientific computing VL - 43 IS - 4 SN - 0196-5204 CY - Philadelphia, Pa. PB - SIAM M1 - FZJ-2020-00420 SP - A2660–A2684 PY - 2021 AB - In recent years, contour-based eigensolvers have emerged as a standard approach for the solution of large and sparse eigenvalue problems. Building upon recent performance improvements through nonlinear least-squares optimization of so-called rational filters, we introduce a systematic method to design these filters by minimizing the worst-case convergence rate and eliminate the parametric dependence on weight functions. Further, we provide an efficient way to deal with the box-constraints which play a central role for the use of iterative linear solvers in contour-based eigensolvers. Indeed, these parameter-free filters consistently minimize the number of iterations and the number of FLOPs to reach convergence in the eigensolver. As a byproduct, our rational filters allow for a simple solution to load balancing when the solution of an interior eigenproblem is approached by the slicing of the sought after spectral interval. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000692204700003 DO - DOI:10.1137/20M1313933 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/872963 ER -