An iteration-based hybrid parallel algorithm for tridiagonal systems of equations on multi-core architectures

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 5076-5095

  Tang, Guangping ^a   Yang, Wangdong ^a   Li, Kenli ^a   Ye, Yu ^a   Xiao, Guoqing ^a   Li, Keqin ^a,b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid parallel algorithm; Multi core architecture; Multi threading; Tridiagonal system of equations

Indexed keywords

LINEAR SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

CYCLIC REDUCTION METHODS; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; MEASURED PARAMETERS; MULTI-THREADING; MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL COMPUTER; PARTITION METHODS; TRIDIAGONAL SYSTEMS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84928685154     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3511     Document Type: Article

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