AbstractThe present paper discusses the parallelization of the robust multigrid
technique (RMT) and the possible way of applying this to unstructured grids. As opposed
to the classical multigrid methods, the RMT is a trivial method of parallelization
on coarse grids independent of the smoothing iterations. Estimates of the minimum
speed-up and parallelism efficiency are given. An almost perfect load balance is demonstrated
in a 3D illustrative test. To overcome the geometric nature of the technique, the
RMT is used as a preconditioner in solving PDEs on unstructured grids. The procedure
of auxiliary structured grids generation is considered in details.