Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: Mr P Anderson <pda@doc.ntu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Parallel sparse matrix multiplication
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
Date: 18 Dec 1995 19:48:11 GMT
Message-ID: <4b4ghr$loe@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>

kolm@num01.nada.kth.se (Petter Kolm) wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>I am looking for references about sparse matrix multiplication on
>parallel computers. Especially, I am interested in data distribution
>and layout patterns for general sparse matrices.
>

Try:

Scientific Computing on Bulk Synchronous Parallel Architectures

R.H. Bisseling, WF McColl.
Dept Maths, Utrecht University preprint 836. Dec 93

This has plenty of other references.

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[A quick biblio check has a URL:

%A R. H. Bisseling
%A W. F. McColl
%T Scientific Computing on Bulk Synchronous Parallel Architectures
%R Preprint 836
%I Dept. of Mathematics, Utrecht University
%D Dec. 1993
%O 31pp.
%K bulk synchronous parallel, BSP,
%X Explains the model and its use for sparse matrix computations.
URL http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/people/bill.mccol.html

]


