Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
Pratt School of Engineering
Duke University

 HOME > pratt > FIP    Search Help Login printable version 

Publications [#237247] of Xiaobai Sun

Journal articles or Book chapters PUBLISHED

  1. Bischof, C; Sun, X; Lang, B, Parallel tridiagonalization through two-step band reduction, Proceedings of the Scalable High-Performance Computing Conference (December, 1994), pp. 23-27
    (last updated on 2025/02/02)

    Abstract:
    We present a two-step variant of the `successive band reduction' paradigm for the tridiagonalization of symmetric matrices. Here we first reduce a full matrix to narrow-banded form, and from there to tridiagonal form. The first step allows easy exploitation of block orthogonal transformations. In the second step, we employ a new blocked version of a banded matrix tridiagonalization algorithm by Lang. In particular, we are able to express the update of the orthogonal transformation matrix in terms of block transformations, which leads to an algorithm that is almost entirely based on BLAS-3 kernels, and has greatly improved data movement and communication characteristics. We also present some performance results on the Intel Touchstone Delta prototype and the IBM SP/1.


Duke University * Pratt * Reload * Login