Locality of reference in LU decomposition with partial pivoting

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1065-1081

  Toledo, Sivan ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cache misses; Gaussian elimination; Locality of reference; LU factorization; Partial pivoting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031496750     PISSN: 08954798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0895479896297744     Document Type: Article

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