Revisiting parallel cyclic reduction and parallel prefix-based algorithms for block tridiagonal systems of equations

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 273-280

  Seal, Sudip K ^a   Perumalla, Kalyan S ^a   Hirshman, Steven P ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block tridiagonal matrix; Cyclic reduction; Parallel solver; Prefix computation

Indexed keywords

BLOCK SIZES; BLOCK TRIDIAGONAL MATRIX; BLOCK-TRIDIAGONAL SYSTEMS; CYCLIC REDUCTION; DIRECT SOLVERS; NUMBER OF BLOCKS; PARALLEL PERFORMANCE; PARALLEL SOLVER; PARAMETER SPACES; PREFIX COMPUTATION; SPECIAL STRUCTURE; SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS; TRIDIAGONAL SYSTEMS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84870923772     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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