Remarks on the Practical Use of Overlapping Schwarz Algorithms

                                Xiao-Chuan Cai
                       Department of Computer Science, 
                      University of Colorado at Boulder,
                              Boulder, CO 80309.
                         email:  cai@cs.colorado.edu.

In this presentation, we shall discuss several issues related to the practical
use of the overlapping Schwarz algorithms for solving large linear systems
arise from the finite element discretization of partial differential
equations.