Parallel tiled QR factorization for multicore architectures

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1573-1590

  Buttari, Alfredo ^a   Langou, Julien ^b   Kurzak, Jakub ^a   Dongarra, Jack ^a,c,d  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linear algebra; Multicore; QR factorization

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ALGEBRA; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; LINEAR ALGEBRA ALGORITHMS; LOOSE SYNCHRONIZATIONS; MULTI CORE; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES; OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION; QR FACTORIZATIONS;

FACTORIZATION;

EID: 50249105132     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1301     Document Type: Article

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