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Foil 43 Parallel Decomposition

From Full Matrices - December 4, 1995 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy J. McCracken


1 We must choose a decomposition for the matrix A which is load balanced throughout the algorithm, and which minimizes communication.
  • Contiguous blocks or rows or columns?
  • This won't work since it is not load balanced. Once processing of a block of rows or columns is completed, the corresponding processor will have nothing to do. For example in a decomposition of rows by block, when the computational window has reached the point as shaded in the diagram, processor 0 is idle for the rest of the algorithm.

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