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The T3D is Cray's virtually shared memory MPP. We discuss here several design issues for the implementations of parallel numerical algorithms. We also describe some specific implementations, and their performance.
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Harrod, W.J., Sidani, M. (1994). Numerical algorithms for the Cray T3D (Cray massively parallel computer). 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/BFb0030158
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