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We present some experiences and results on parallel linear algebra algorithms on distributed memory platforms, based on the IBM RISC System/6000 workstations; we shall refer both to homogeneous workstation clusters and to the IBM 9076 SP parallel machines. We describe our approach in developing an experimental linear algebra library for these environments.
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Filippone, S., Loredana Sales, M. (1994). Experiences in numerical software on IBM distributed memory architectures. In: Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Scientific Computing. PARA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030149
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