The cache-oblivious gaussian elimination paradigm: Theoretical framework, parallelization and experimental evaluation

Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 71-80

  Chowdhury, Rezaul Alam ^a   Ramachandran, Vijaya ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

All pairs shortest path; Cache oblivious algorithm; Gaussian elimination; Matrix multiplication; Tiling

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

ALL-PAIRS SHORTEST PATH; CACHE-OBLIVIOUS ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION; MATRIX MULTIPLICATION; TILING;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 35248831668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1248377.1248392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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