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HPF and Numerical Libraries

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Portable and effcient ways for calling numerical high performance software libraries from HPF programs are investigated. The methods suggested utilize HPF’s EXTRINSIC mechanism and are independent of implementation details of HPF compilers. Two prototypical examples are used to illustrate these techniques. Highly optimized Blas routines are utilized for local computations: (i) in parallel multiplication of matrices, and (ii) in parallel Cholesky factorization. Both implementations turn out to be very efficient and show significant improvements over standard HPF implementations.

This work was supported by the Special Research Program SFB F011 “AURORA” of the Austrian Science Fund FWF.

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  1. VCPC, European Centre for Parallel Computing at Vienna, Australia

    Harald J. Ehold

  2. Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology, Australia

    Wilfried N. Gansterer & Christoph W. Ueberhuber

  3. Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Australia

    Dieter F. Kvasnicka

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  1. Forschungsinstitut für Softwaretechnologie, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Peter Zinterhof

  2. Slovac Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Laboratory for Informatics, Dubravska 9, P.O.Box 56, 840 00, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Marian Vajteršic

  3. Universität Salzburg, RIST++, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Andreas Uhl

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Ehold, H.J., Gansterer, W.N., Kvasnicka, D.F., Ueberhuber, C.W. (1999). HPF and Numerical Libraries. In: Zinterhof, P., Vajteršic, M., Uhl, A. (eds) Parallel Computation. ACPC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1557. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49164-3_14

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