Interfaces for parallel numerical linear algebra libraries in high level languages

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 652-658

  Drummond, L Anthony ^a   Galiano, Vicente ^b   Migallón, Violeta ^c   Penadés, Jose ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Numerical experiments; Parallel software; Performance; Python interfaces; ScaLAPACK

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; USER INTERFACES;

NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARALLEL SOFTWARE; PERFORMANCE; PYTHON INTERFACES; SCALAPACK;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

EID: 64849110800     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2008.11.014     Document Type: Article

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