Concepedia

Solving Linear Systems on Vector and Shared Memory Computers.

James M. Ortega, Jack Dongarra, Iain Duff, Danny C. Sorensen, H.A. van der Vorst

Mathematics of Computation · 1992 · 438 citations · 0 references

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Numerical AnalysisMassively-parallel ComputingLinear SystemsArray ComputingSparse Linear SystemsEngineeringParallel ProcessingComputer EngineeringComputer ArchitectureSystems EngineeringParallel ImplementationVectorizationParallel ProgrammingComputer ScienceOverhead PerformanceParallel ComputingVector ProcessingParallel Processing Overview

Abstract

Vector and parallel processing overview of current high-performance computers implementation details and overhead performance - analysis, modeling and measurements building blocks in linear algebra direct solution of sparse linear systems iterative solution of sparse linear systems. Appendices: acquiring mathematical software information on various high-performance computers level 1,2, and 3 BLAS quick reference operation counts for various BLAS and decompositions.