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Parallel bandreduction and tridiagonalization


Author(s) : Xiaobai Sun Mercedes Marques Christian Bischof, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1993
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : This paper presents a parallel implementation of a blocked band reduction algorithm for symmetric matrices suggested by Bischof and Sun. The reduction to tridiagonal or block tridiagonal form is a special case of this algorithm. A blocked double torus wrap mapping is used as the underlying data distribution and the so-called WY representation is employed to represent block orthogonal transformations. Preliminary performance results on the Intel Delta indicate that the algorithm is well-suited to a MIMD computing environment and that the use of a block approach significantly improves performance. 1,