ScaLAPACK: A portable linear algebra library for distributed memory computers - Design issues and performance

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Choi, J ^a   Demmel, J ^b   Dhillon, I ^b   Dongarra, J ^a,c   Ostrouchov, S ^a   Petitet, A ^a,c   Stanley, K ^b   Walker, D ^c   Whaley, R C ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LIBRARIES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY COMPUTERS; SCALAPACK;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030564728     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0010-4655(96)00017-3     Document Type: Article

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