High level user interfaces for numerical linear algebra libraries: PyScaLAPACK

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Drummond, L A ^a   Galiano, V ^b   Migallon V ^c   Penades J ^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

NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA; PARALLEL ENVIRONMENT; PARALLEL SOFTWARE; PARALLEL SOFTWARE LIBRARY; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING; SCALAPACK; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EXPERIMENTS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; LINEAR ALGEBRA;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84858668810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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