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Toward the parallelization of GSL

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In this paper, we present our joint efforts to design and develop parallel implementations of the GNU Scientific Library for a wide variety of parallel platforms. The multilevel software architecture proposed provides several interfaces: a sequential interface that hides the parallel nature of the library to sequential users, a parallel interface for parallel programmers, and a web services based interface to provide remote access to the routines of the library. The physical level of the architecture includes platforms ranging from distributed and shared-memory multiprocessors to hybrid systems and heterogeneous clusters. Several well-known operations arising in discrete mathematics and sparse linear algebra are used to illustrate the challenges, benefits, and performance of different parallelization approaches.

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  1. Dept. de Ingeniería y Ciencia de Computadores, Univ. Jaime I, 12080, Castellón, Spain

    Jose Ignacio Aliaga, Jose Manuel Badía, Sergio Barrachina, Maria Castillo, Rafael Mayo, Enrique S. Quintana, Gregorio Quintana & Alfredo Remón

  2. Dept. de Estadística, Investigación Operativa y Computación, Univ. de La Laguna, 38071, La Laguna, Spain

    Francisco Almeida, Vicente Blanco, Casiano Rodríguez, Francisco de Sande & Adrian Santos

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Aliaga, J.I., Almeida, F., Badía, J.M. et al. Toward the parallelization of GSL. J Supercomput 48, 88–114 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-008-0207-z

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