Using PLAPACK, The MIT Press, 1997 (original) (raw)
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April 1997
ISBN 0-262-72026-4
224 pp.
$27.50 (paper)
PLAPACK is a library infrastructure for the parallel implementation of linear algebra algorithms and applications on distributed memory supercomputers such as the Intel Paragon, IBM SP2, Cray T3D/T3E, SGI PowerChallenge, and Convex Exemplar. This infrastructure allows library developers, scientists, and engineers to exploit a natural approach to encoding so-called blocked algorithms, which achieve high performance by operating on submatrices and subvectors. This feature, as well as the use of an alternative, more application-centric approach to data distribution, sets PLAPACK apart from other parallel linear algebra libraries, allowing for strong performance and significanltly less programming by the user.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to all the components of a high-performance parallel linear algebra library, as well as a guide to the PLAPACK infrastructure.
Scientific and Engineering Computation series, The MIT Press
with contributions by
Philip Alpatov, Greg Baker, Carter Edwards, John Gunnels, Greg Morrow, and James Overfelt.