• DocumentCode
    2035392
  • Title

    Multicoloring for Fast Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication in Solving PDE Problems

  • Author

    Wang, H.C. ; Hwang, Kai

  • Author_Institution
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    16-20 Aug. 1993
  • Firstpage
    215
  • Lastpage
    222
  • Abstract
    A new multicoloring technique is proposed for parallel sparse matrix-vector multiplication, which dominates the computing cost of iterative PDE (partial differential equation) solvers. The new technique enables parallel solution of grid-structured nonsymmetric PDE problems on shared-memory multiprocessors through resolving memory access conflicts by multiple processors. The coloring scheme is formulated as an algebraic mapping which can be implemented with low overhead.
  • Keywords
    Concurrent computing; Costs; Gradient methods; Mesh generation; Multiprocessing systems; Packaging; Parallel processing; Partial differential equations; Sparse matrices; Testing; Parallel processing; conjugate gradient methods; matrix-vector multiplication; multicoloring; partial differential equations.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel Processing, 1993. ICPP 1993. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Syracuse, NY, USA
  • ISSN
    0190-3918
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8493-8983-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPP.1993.119
  • Filename
    4134272