Title :
Sparse matrix block-cyclic redistribution
Author :
Bandera, Gerardo ; Zapata, Emilio L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Archit., Malaga Univ., Spain
Abstract :
Run-time support for the CYCLIC(k) redistribution on the SPMD computation model is presently very relevant for the scientific community. This work is focused to the characterization of the sparse matrix redistribution and its associate problematic due to the use of compressed representations. Two main improvements about the buffering and the coordinates calculation modify the original algorithm. Our solutions contain a collecting, a communication and mixing stage with different influence in the execution time depending on the sparsity of the matrix and the number of processors. Experimental results have been carried out on a Cray T3E for real matrices and different redistribution parameters
Keywords :
parallel processing; performance evaluation; sparse matrices; Cray T3E; SPMD computation model; buffering; coordinates calculation; real matrices; redistribution parameters; run-time support; sparse matrix block-cyclic redistribution; Computer architecture; Costs; Data structures; Electrical capacitance tomography; Ice; Microwave integrated circuits; Postal services; Runtime; Scheduling; Sparse matrices;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing, 1999. 13th International and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1999. 1999 IPPS/SPDP. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
San Juan
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0143-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPPS.1999.760500