Using a massively parallel processor to solve large sparse linear programs by an interior-point method

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 553-565

  Czyzyk, Joseph ^a   Fourer, Robert ^b   Mehrotra, Sanjay ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Interior point methods; Large scale optimization; Linear programming; Parallel computation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008735113     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827594272086     Document Type: Article

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