Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel
From: pick@lune.math.tau.ac.il (Pick Daniel)
Subject: Re: [Q]:Parallel Matrix Multiplication
Organization: School of Math & CS - Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , ISRAEL.
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 07:46:51 GMT
Message-ID: <47n2tb$lpm@post.tau.ac.il>

In article <475gre$spf@diable.upc.es> Antonio Scotti <scotti@centauro.upc.es> writes:
>Hi,
>does anybody know how many and which algorithms for parallel matrix
>multiplication are there around?
>Does anybody have references to some relevant literature?
>
>Thanks
>-- Antonio
>
>
     I think at the moment you write your own :)  Most of the papers that I'm
aware of on this subject are for either computing the eigenvalues of the
matrix, or for sparse matrices.  The compilers for the Intel Paragon have
built-in global routines that allow you to compute the result of a computation
across many processors, and store the result in one.  This makes it easy 
to write your own code to perform fast matrix multiplication.

                                                 --Dan 8^)

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