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A parallel formulation of interior point algorithms

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OSTI ID:87624
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  1. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). Computer Science Dept.

In this paper the authors describe a scalable parallel formulation of interior point algorithms. Through their implementation on a 256-processor nCUBE 2 parallel computer, their show that their parallel formulation utilizes hundreds of processors efficiently and delivers much higher performance and speedups than reported earlier. These speedups are a result of their highly efficient parallel algorithm for solving a linear symmetric positive definite system using Cholesky factorization. They also evaluate a number of ordering algorithms for sparse matrix factorization in terms of their suitability for parallel Cholesky factorization.

OSTI ID:
87624
Report Number(s):
CONF-941118--; ISBN 0-8186-6605-6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English