Fast sparse matrix factorization on modern workstations:

The performance of workstation-class machines has experienced a dramatic increase in the recent past. Relatively inexpensive machines which offer 14 MIPS and 2 MFLOPS performance are now available, and machines with even higher performance are not far off. One important characteristic of these machi...

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Hauptverfasser: Rothberg, Edward (VerfasserIn), Gupta, Anoop (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. 1989
Schriftenreihe:Stanford University / Computer Science Department: Report STAN-CS 1286
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Zusammenfassung:The performance of workstation-class machines has experienced a dramatic increase in the recent past. Relatively inexpensive machines which offer 14 MIPS and 2 MFLOPS performance are now available, and machines with even higher performance are not far off. One important characteristic of these machines is that they rely on a small amount of high-speed cache memory for their high performance. In this paper, we consider the problem of Cholesky factorization of a large sparse positive definite system of equations on a high performance workstation. We find that the major factor limiting performance is the cost of moving data between memory and the processor. We use two techniques to address this limitation; we decrease the number of memory references and we improve cache behavior to decrease the cost of each reference. When run on benchmarks from the Harwell-Boeing Sparse Matrix Collection, the resulting factorization code is almost three times as fast as SPARSPAK on a DECStation 3100. We believe that the issues brought up in this paper will play an important role in the effective use of high performance workstations on large numerical problems.
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