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ScaLAPACK installations include the following libraries: scalapack, redist, pblas, tools, blacs, blacsCinit, and blacsF77init.
An meeting with Professor Choi J.
I finally met Prof. Choi J. which a member of ScaLAPACK team
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- What is the Block-Oriented?
- Why use shared memory instead of files?
- Are there any ways (or methods) to handle to files?
- What are the relative merits and demerits of the ScaLAPACK?
- Performance Results?
And, In the last question
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on the 23th of June, 2007 and, He agreed to teach me some advanced topics in mathematics. I have been hearing about him for quite a long time.
- Written in Fortran77 with a few in C
- Covers dense and band matrices, not general sparse matrices
- Written in a Single-Program-Multiple-Data style using explicit message passing for inter-processor communication.
- Assumes matrices are laid out in a two-dimensional block cyclic decomposition.
Lastly, I heard that the Hama is worthwhile to continue the research on the basis of the ScaLAPACK’s ideas.
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