Study of structural properties of Cholesky decomposition: from well?known facts to new conclusions
Keywords:
Parallel algorithm structure; Cholesky decomposition; mapping of algorithm to computer architecture.Abstract
As a part of Open Encyclopedia of Algorithms’ Properties (AlgoWiki) development the properties of parallel algorithm of Cholesky decomposition for symmetric positive definite matrices has been studied. Based on algorithm graph analysis a description of this algorithm parallel properties is given as well as locality properties of memory access are analyzed. Resulted from numerical experiments on Lomonosov supercomputer research data of a scalability for Cholesky decomposition straightforward implementations allows to give several suggestions as regards dimension ratio of tasks and resources required for their solution. Theoretical studies give an opportunity both to explain relatively low performance of this method pointwise implementation and to reassess some approaches accepted by the scientific society more than half a century ago as well as to re?evaluate them from the contemporary computer facilities point of view.Downloads
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2018-02-07
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INFORMATICS, COMPUTER ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT