Fast tridiagonal solvers on the GPU

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 127-136

  Zhang, Yao ^a   Cohen, Jonathan ^b   Owens, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GPGPU; Performance Optimization; Tridiagonal Linear System

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC REDUCTION; GPGPU; GPU PROGRAMS; LINEAR ALGORITHMS; MEMORY ACCESS; MULTITHREADED; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; RECURSIVE DOUBLING; TRI-DIAGONAL SOLVER; TRIDIAGONAL;

LINEAR SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77957607987     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1837853.1693472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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