Practical Experience in the Numerical Dangers of Heterogeneous Computing

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-147

  Blackford, L S ^a,e   Cleary, A ^a,e   Petitet, A ^a,e   Whaley, R C ^a,e   Demmel, J ^b,f   Dhillon, I ^b,f   Ren, H ^b,f   Stanley, K ^b,f   Dongarra, J ^c,g   Hammarling, S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Numerical Algorithms Group   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; D.1.3 Programming Techniques : Concurrent Programming distributed programming; Distributed memory systems; Floating point arithmetic; G.1.0 Numerical Analysis : General computer arithmetic; Parallel algorithms; Reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SCALAPACK;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031152270     PISSN: 00983500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/264029.264030     Document Type: Article

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