Review of general and Toeplitz vector bidiagonal solvers

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1091-1126

  Larriba Pey, Josep Lluis ^a   Navarro, Juan J ^a   Jorba, Angel ^a   Roig, Oriol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bidiagonal systems; Cyclic reduction; Diagonal dominant system; Divide and conquer; Partition method; Vector computer

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VECTORS;

DIGITAL DOMINANT SYSTEMS; TOEPLITZ BIDIAGONAL SYSTEMS; VECTOR COMPUTERS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0041590865     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(96)00028-2     Document Type: Review

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