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We present nifty-ls, a software package for fast and accurate evaluation of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram. nifty-ls leverages the fact that Lomb-Scargle can be computed using a non-uniform FFT (NUFFT), which we evaluate with the Flatiron Institute NUFFT package (finufft). This approach achieves a many-fold speedup over the Press & Rybicki (1989) method as implemented in Astropy and is simultaneously many orders of magnitude more accurate. nifty-ls also supports fast evaluation on GPUs via CUDA and integrates with the Astropy Lomb-Scargle interface. nifty-ls is publicly available as open-source software., Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, submitted to RNAAS. Software available at https://github.com/flatironinstitute/nifty-ls/

We present a Newton-Krylov solver for a viscous-plastic sea-ice model. This constitutive relation is commonly used in climate models to describe the material properties of sea ice. Due to the strong nonlinearity introduced by the material law in the momentum equation, the development of fast, robust and scalable solvers is still a substantial challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel primal-dual Newton linearization for the implicitly-in-time discretized momentum equation. Compared to existing methods, it converges faster and more robustly with respect to mesh refinement, and thus enables numerically converged sea-ice simulations at high resolutions. Combined with an algebraic multigrid-preconditioned Krylov method for the linearized systems, which contain strongly varying coefficients, the resulting solver scales well and can be used in parallel. We present experiments for two challenging test problems and study solver performance for problems with up to 8.4 million spatial unknowns., Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures

We present augmented Lagrangian Schur complement preconditioners and robust multigrid methods for incompressible Stokes problems with extreme viscosity variations. Such Stokes systems arise, for instance, upon linearization of nonlinear viscous flow problems, and they can have severely inhomogeneous and anisotropic coefficients. Using an augmented Lagrangian formulation for the incompressibility constraint makes the Schur complement easier to approximate, but results in a nearly singular (1,1)-block in the Stokes system. We present eigenvalue estimates for the quality of the Schur complement approximation. To cope with the near-singularity of the (1,1)-block, we extend a multigrid scheme with a discretization-dependent smoother and transfer operators from triangular/tetrahedral to the quadrilateral/hexahedral finite element discretizations $[\mathbb{Q}_k]^d\times \mathbb{P}_{k-1}^{\text{disc}}$, $k\geq 2$, $d=2,3$. Using numerical examples with scalar and with anisotropic fourth-order tensor viscosity arising from linearization of a viscoplastic constitutive relation, we confirm the robustness of the multigrid scheme and the overall efficiency of the solver. We present scalability results using up to 28,672 parallel tasks for problems with up to 1.6 billion unknowns and a viscosity contrast up to ten orders of magnitude., Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures

Nonuniform fast Fourier transforms dominate the computational cost in many applications including image reconstruction and signal processing. We thus present a general-purpose GPU-based CUDA library for type 1 (nonuniform to uniform) and type 2 (uniform to nonuniform) transforms in dimensions 2 and 3, in single or double precision. It achieves high performance for a given user-requested accuracy, regardless of the distribution of nonuniform points, via cache-aware point reordering, and load-balanced blocked spreading in shared memory. At low accuracies, this gives on-GPU throughputs around $10^9$ nonuniform points per second, and (even including host-device transfer) is typically 4-10$\times$ faster than the latest parallel CPU code FINUFFT (at 28 threads). It is competitive with two established GPU codes, being up to 90$\times$ faster at high accuracy and/or type 1 clustered point distributions. Finally we demonstrate a 5-12$\times$ speedup versus CPU in an X-ray diffraction 3D iterative reconstruction task at $10^{-12}$ accuracy, observing excellent multi-GPU weak scaling up to one rank per GPU., Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures

Strain localization and resulting plasticity and failure play an important role in the evolution of the lithosphere. These phenomena are commonly modeled by Stokes flows with viscoplastic rheologies. The nonlinearities of these rheologies make the numerical solution of the resulting systems challenging, and iterative methods often converge slowly or not at all. Yet accurate solutions are critical for representing the physics. Moreover, for some rheology laws, aspects of solvability are still unknown. We study a basic but representative viscoplastic rheology law. The law involves a yield stress that is independent of the dynamic pressure, referred to as von Mises yield criterion. Two commonly used variants, perfect/ideal and composite viscoplasticity, are compared. We derive both variants from energy minimization principles, and we use this perspective to argue when solutions are unique. We propose a new stress-velocity Newton solution algorithm that treats the stress as an independent variable during the Newton linearization but requires solution only of Stokes systems that are of the usual velocity-pressure form. To study different solution algorithms, we implement 2D and 3D finite element discretizations, and we generate Stokes problems with up to 7 orders of magnitude viscosity contrasts, in which compression or tension results in significant nonlinear localization effects. Comparing the performance of the proposed Newton method with the standard Newton method and the Picard fixed-point method, we observe a significant reduction in the number of iterations and improved stability with respect to problem nonlinearity, mesh refinement, and the polynomial order of the discretization., Comment: To appear in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems