An asynchronous API for numerical linear algebra

Scalable Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-163

  Brodtkorb, André Rigland ^a  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asynchronous; CUBLAS; Double precision; GPU; MATLAB; Multicore

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; LINEAR ALGEBRA; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ASYNCHRONOUS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CUBLAS; DOUBLE PRECISION; MULTI CORE; NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA; TASK PARALLEL; TWO PROCESSORS;

MATLAB;

EID: 79958772261     PISSN: 18951767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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