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Pairwise Reduction for the Direct, Parallel Solution of Sparse, Unsymmetric Sets of Linear Equations
December 1988 (vol. 37 no. 12)
pp. 1648-1654
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T.A. Davis, E.S. Davidson, "Pairwise Reduction for the Direct, Parallel Solution of Sparse, Unsymmetric Sets of Linear Equations," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1648-1654, December, 1988.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/12.9742,
author = {T.A. Davis and E.S. Davidson},
title = {Pairwise Reduction for the Direct, Parallel Solution of Sparse, Unsymmetric Sets of Linear Equations},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Computers},
volume = {37},
number = {12},
issn = {0018-9340},
year = {1988},
pages = {1648-1654},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/12.9742},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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A paradigm for concurrent computing is explored in which a group of autonomous, asynchronous processes shares a common memory space and cooperates to solve a single problem. The processes synchronize with only a few others at a time; barrier synchronization is not permitted except at the beginning and end of the computation. The paradigm maps directly to a shared-memory multiprocessor with effi

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Index Terms:
pairwise reduction; parallel solution; sparse; unsymmetric sets; linear equations; concurrent computing; shared-memory multiprocessor; pairwise solve; PSolve; linear algebra; parallel algorithms.
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T.A. Davis, E.S. Davidson, "Pairwise Reduction for the Direct, Parallel Solution of Sparse, Unsymmetric Sets of Linear Equations," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1648-1654, Dec. 1988, doi:10.1109/12.9742
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