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This paper presents a parallel algorithm to solve linear equation systems. This method, known as Neville elimination, is appropriate especially for the case of totally positive matrices (all its minors are non-negative). We discuss one common way to partition coefficient matrix among processors. In our mapping, called columwise block-cyclic-striped mapping, the matrix is divided into blocks of complete columns and these blocks are distributed among the processors in a cyclic way. The theoretic asymptotic estimation assures the speed-up to be k (being k the processor number); so the efficiency can take the value 1. Furthermore, in order to study the performance of the algorithm over a real machine (IBM SP2), some constants have been estimated. If such constants take these experimental values, then theoretic results are confirmed.
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Alonso, P., Cortina, R., Díaz, I., Hernández, V., Ranilla, J. (2002). A Columnwise Block Striping in Neville Elimination. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Paprzycki, M., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2328. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48086-2_42
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