標題: Parallelizing a level 3 BLAS library for LAN-connected workstations
作者: Huang, KC
Wang, FJ
Wu, PC
資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science
公開日期: 10-Oct-1996
摘要: LAN-connected workstations are a heterogeneous environment, where each workstation provides time-varying computing power, and thus dynamic load balancing mechanisms are necessary for parallel applications to run efficiently. Parallel basic linear algebra subprograms (BLAS) have recently shown promise as a means of taking advantage of parallel computing in solving scientific problems. Most existing parallel algorithms of BLAS are designed for conventional parallel computers; they do not take the particular characteristics of LAN-connected workstations into consideration. This paper presents a parallelizing method of Level 3 BLAS for LAN-connected workstations. The parallelizing method makes dynamic load balancing through column-blocking data distribution. The experiment results indicate that this dynamic load balancing mechanism really leads to a more efficient parallel level 3 BLAS for LAN-connected workstations. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jpdc.1996.0126
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/149370
ISSN: 0743-7315
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1996.0126
期刊: JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
Volume: 38
起始頁: 28
結束頁: 36
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