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Foil 86 Abstract of Dec 5 1996 CPS615 Lecture

From New CPS615Master Foils-- 26 August 96 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox
This lecture covers two distinct areas.
Firstly a short discussion of LInear Programming -- what type of problems its used for, what the equations look like and basic issues in the difficult use of parallel processing
Then we give an abbreviated discussion of Full Matrix algorithms covering
  • The types of applications that use them
  • Matrix Multiplication including Cannon's algorithm in detail
  • Use of MPI primitives including communicator groups
  • Performance Analysis

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