Linear Systems and Parallel Programming
November 5, 2003

Lecture today will continue the overview of our Text III: Shared-Memory Parallel Processors.

Linear Systems of Equations Ax=b using Direct Methods (Gaussian Elimination) and Iterative Methods (Gauss-Jacobi): This is the beginning of the development for your next programming experiment, which will be done as a group project. The starting code template will be provided on Monday.
Summary Chapter 10: Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: We only use some of the figures from this chapter, since our class focus will be on Scalable Parallel Processing
Summary Chapter 11: Programming Shared-Memory Multiprocessors: Chapter 12 on Monday will be source introduction leading to MPI (message passing interface) for both Rohan and SDSC's Blue Horizon IBM SP2 Supercomputer.