Parallel numerical linear algebra

Abstract

We survey general techniques and open problems in numerical linear algebra on parallel architectures. We first discuss basic principles of paralled processing, describing the costs of basic operations on parallel machines, including general principles for constructing efficient algorithms. We illustrate these principles using current architectures and software systems, and by showing how one would implement matrix multiplication. Then, we present direct and iterative algorithms for solving linear systems of equations, linear least squares problems, the symmetric eigenvalue problem, the nonsymmetric eigenvalue problem, and the singular value decomposition. We consider dense, band and sparse matrices.