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class="cmr-12">Abstract</span></h3>
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class="cmcsc-10x-x-120">AMG4PSBLAS (A<span
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class="cmcsc-10x-x-120">PSBLAS</span><span
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class="cmr-12">) is a package of parallel algebraic multilevel preconditioners included in the</span>
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class="cmr-12">PSCToolkit (Parallel Sparse Computation Toolkit) software framework. It is a progress</span>
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class="cmr-12">additive-Schwarz type, and was based on a parallel decoupled version of the well known</span>
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class="cmr-12">smoothed aggregation method to generate the multilevel hierarchy of coarser</span>
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class="cmr-12">matrices. In the last years, within the context of the EU-H2020 EoCoE project</span>
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class="cmr-12">(Energy Oriented Center of Excellence), the package was extended for including</span>
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class="cmr-12">preconditioners with the final aims of improving efficiency and scalability when tens of</span>
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class="cmr-12">of changes and the increase in scope, we decided to rename the package as</span>
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class="cmr-12">solvers available in this framework. Our package is based on a completely</span>
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class="cmr-12">and preconditioners are represented as PSBLAS distributed sparse matrices.</span>
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class="cmr-12">The package employs object-oriented design techniques in Fortran</span><span
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class="cmr-12">This guide provides a brief description of the functionalities and the user interface</span>
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