High-performance solvers for dense hermitian eigenproblems

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Petschow, M ^a   Peise, E ^a   Bientinesi, P ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eigenvalue; Eigenvector; Generalized eigenproblem; Hermitian; Parallel algorithms; Symmetric; Tridiagonal

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MULTITASKING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EIGEN-PROBLEMS; EIGEN-VALUE; FAST SOLVERS; GENERALIZED EIGENPROBLEMS; HERMITIANS; MESSAGE-PASSING; MULTI-THREADING; SCALAPACK; SYMMETRICS; TRIDIAGONAL;

MESSAGE PASSING;

EID: 84876216080     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: 10957200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110848803     Document Type: Article

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