BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20141118T231500Z DTEND:20141119T010000Z LOCATION:New Orleans Theater Lobby DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Jacobi-Davidson methods can efficiently compute a few eigenpairs of a large sparse matrix.=0ABlock variants of Jacobi-Davidson are known to be more robust than the standard algorithm, but they are usually avoided as the total number of floating point operations increases.=0AWe present the implementation of a block Jacobi-Davidson solver and show by detailed performance engineering and numerical experiments that the increase in operations is typically more than compensated by performance gains on modern architectures, giving a method that is both more efficient and robust than its single vector counterpart. SUMMARY:Performance of Block Jacobi-Davidson Eigensolvers PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR