A scalable tridiagonal solver for GPUs

Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 444-453

  Kim, Hee Seok ^a   Wu, Shengzhao ^a   Chang, Li Wen ^a   Hwu, Wen Mei W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

GPGPU; GPU computing; Tridiagonal solver; Tridiagonal systems

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTING ALGORITHM; CYCLIC REDUCTION; DOUBLE PRECISION; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; GPGPU; GPU COMPUTING; HYBRID METHOD; INPUT SYSTEMS; MULTITHREADED; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; SUB-PROBLEMS; THOMAS ALGORITHM; TRI-DIAGONAL SOLVER; TRIDIAGONAL SYSTEMS;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80155140292     PISSN: 01903918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2011.41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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