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In the paper we present the results of running DGETRF, DPOTRF and DGEQRF linear algebra subprograms on new three parallel computers: IBM SP-2, SGI Power Challenge and CONVEX Exemplar SPP1000/XA. Computing time, speed in MFLOPS, speedup and efficiency are presented.
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Bubak, M., Owczarz, W., Waśniewski, J. (1996). Linear algebra computation on parallel machines. In: Dongarra, J., Madsen, K., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing Computations in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering Science. PARA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1041. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60902-4_10
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