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Two electrical engineering applications from industry partners dealing with sparse matrices were analyzed regarding cache efficiency and scalability on modern multi core systems. Two different contemporary multi-core architectures have been investigated, namely Intel’s Westmere and AMD’s Magny-Cours. This paper can be regarded as a continuation of the investigations presented in [14] and [15].
In addition, the SuiteSparseQR library for efficiently computing QR factorizations of sparse matrices was evaluated regarding scalability and cache efficiency.
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Müller, T., Trinitis, C., Smajic, J. (2011). Cache Efficiency and Scalability on Multi-core Architectures. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23178-0_8
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