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PLAPACK is a software library for dense parallel linear algebra computations.
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Introduction
The PLAPACK (van de Geijn, Robert., Using PLAPACK, pp. 1, 3, 4, 6, 43, 59, 85, ©1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by permission of the MIT Press) library is a modern, dense parallel linear algebra library that is extensible, easy to use, and available under an open source license. It is designed to be user-friendly while offering competitive performance when compared to the more traditionally constructed ScaLAPACK library.
The PLAPACK Project
MotivationPLAPACK’s design was motivated by the observation that the parallel implementation of most dense linear algebra operations is a relatively well-understood process. Nonetheless, the creation of general-purpose, high-performance parallel dense linear algebra libraries is severely hampered by the fact that translating the sequential algorithms to a parallel code requires careful manipulation of indices and parameters...
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Gunnels, J.A. (2011). PLAPACK. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_277
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