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We have discussed some issues arising in the design anduse of parallel libraries on distributed memory computer architectures; as a reference case we have examined in detail various features of the IBM Parallel Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library.
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Filippone, S. (1996). Parallel libraries on distributed memory architectures: The IBM Parallel ESSL. In: Waśniewski, J., Dongarra, J., Madsen, K., Olesen, D. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing Industrial Computation and Optimization. PARA 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62095-8_26
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