Out-of-core implementations of cholesky Factorization: Loop-based versus recursive algorithms

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1302-1319

  Béreux, Natacha ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES APPLIQUÉES   (France)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Cholesky factorization; Out of core algorithms

Indexed keywords

CHOLESKY FACTORIZATION; CHOLESKY FACTORIZATION ALGORITHM; CHOLESKY FACTORIZATIONS; COMPLEX MATRICES; INPUT/OUTPUT OPERATIONS; LINEAR ALGEBRA PACKAGE; MAIN MEMORY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OUT-OF-CORE; OUT-OF-CORE ALGORITHMS; POSITIVE-DEFINITE MATRICES; RECURSIVE ALGORITHMS; RECURSIVE FORMULATION;

ALGEBRA; BUILDING MATERIALS; FACTORIZATION; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70449440599     PISSN: 08954798     EISSN: 10957162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/06067256X     Document Type: Article

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