A parallel direct solver for large sparse highly unsymmetric linear systems

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-117

  Duff, Iain S ^a   Scott, Jennifer A ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian elimination; Highly unsymmetric linear systems; Parallel processing; Sparse matrices

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION; HIGHLY UNASYMMETRIC LINEAR SYSTEMS; SPARSE MATRICES;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942670738     PISSN: 00983500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/992200.992201     Document Type: Article

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