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Parallelism

The nested loop structure of most linear algebra algorithms offers considerable scope for loop-based parallelism on shared memory machines. This is the principal type of parallelism that LAPACK at present aims to exploit. It can sometimes be generated automatically by a compiler, but often requires the insertion of compiler directives.



Susan Blackford
1999-10-01