Solving systems of linear equations by GPU-based matrix factorization in a Science Ground Segment

Astronomy and Computing

Volumn 3-4, Issue , 2013, Pages 58-64

  Legendre, Maxime ^a   Schmidt, Albrecht ^b   Moussaoui, Saïd ^a   Lammers, Uwe ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gaia mission; Graphics Processing Units (GPU); Linear solving; Matrix factorization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA HANDLING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EFFICIENCY; FACTORIZATION; IMAGE CODING; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

GAIA MISSION; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; LINEAR SOLVING; MATRIX FACTORIZATIONS; REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION; SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84890851939     PISSN: 22131337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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