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Applications and accuracy of the parallel diagonal dominant algorithm. Contractor report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6421749
The Parallel Diagonal Dominant (PDD) algorithm is a highly efficient, ideally scalable tridiagonal solver. In this paper, a detailed study of the PDD algorithm is given. First the PDD algorithm is introduced. Then the algorithm is extended to solve periodic tridiagonal systems. A variant, the reduced PDD algorithm, is-also proposed. Accuracy analysis is provided for a class of tridiagonal systems, the symmetric and anti-symmetric Toeplitz tridiagonal systems. Implementation results show that the analysis gives a good bound on the relative error, and the algorithm is a good candidate for the emerging massively parallel machines.... Parallel processing, Parallel numerical algorithm, Scalable computing, Tridiagonal system, Toeplitz systems.
Research Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, VA (United States). Inst. for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
OSTI ID:
6421749
Report Number(s):
AD-A-263151/3/XAB; ICASE--93-6; CNN: NAS1-19480
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English