An overlapped two-way method for solving tridiagonal linear systems in a BSP computer

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 475-500

  Climent, Joan Josep ^a,b   Perea, Carmen ^b   Tortosa, Leandro ^a   Zamora, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bulk synchronous parallelism; Diagonally dominant matrix; Overlapping partitions; Tridiagonal linear systems; Two way methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

OVERLAPPING PARTITIONS; TRIDIAGONAL LINEAR SYSTEMS; TWO-WAY METHODS;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044249026     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2003.12.044     Document Type: Article

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