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In this paper, we derive and investigate approaches to dynamically load balance a distributed task parallel application software. The load balancing strategy is based on task migration. Busy processes export parts of their ready task queue…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Afshin Zafari , Elisabeth Larsson

We present a fast sparse matrix permutation algorithm tailored to linear systems arising from triangle meshes. Our approach produces nested-dissection-style permutations while significantly reducing permutation runtime overhead. Rather than…

Current high-performance computer systems used for scientific computing typically combine shared memory computational nodes in a distributed memory environment. Extracting high performance from these complex systems requires tailored…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-14 Afshin Zafari , Elisabeth Larsson , Martin Tillenius

The randomly pivoted partial Cholesky algorithm (RPCholesky) computes a factorized rank-k approximation of an N x N positive-semidefinite (psd) matrix. RPCholesky requires only (k + 1) N entry evaluations and O(k^2 N) additional arithmetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Yifan Chen , Ethan N. Epperly , Joel A. Tropp , Robert J. Webber

Prior to computing the Cholesky factorization of a sparse, symmetric positive definite matrix, a reordering of the rows and columns is computed so as to reduce both the number of fill elements in Cholesky factor and the number of arithmetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Robert Luce , Esmond Ng

The current computer architecture has moved towards the multi/many-core structure. However, the algorithms in the current sequential dense numerical linear algebra libraries (e.g. LAPACK) do not parallelize well on multi/many-core…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-03-14 Henricus Bouwmeester

Our interest lies in the robust and efficient solution of large sparse linear least-squares problems. In recent years, hardware developments have led to a surge in interest in exploiting mixed precision arithmetic within numerical linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma

Incomplete factorizations have long been popular general-purpose algebraic preconditioners for solving large sparse linear systems of equations. Guaranteeing the factorization is breakdown free while computing a high quality preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma

We consider the solution of large linear systems of equations that arise when two-dimensional singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations are discretized. Standard methods for these problems, such as central finite differences, lead…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Thái Anh Nhan , Niall Madden

LU and Cholesky matrix factorization algorithms are core subroutines used to solve systems of linear equations (SLEs) encountered while solving an optimization problem. Standard factorization algorithms are highly efficient but remain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Adolfo R. Escobedo

The aim of parallel computing is to increase an application performance by executing the application on multiple processors. OpenMP is an API that supports multi platform shared memory programming model and shared-memory programs are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Vibha Rajput , Alok Katiyar

Several methods exist today to accelerate Machine Learning(ML) or Deep-Learning(DL) model performance for training and inference. However, modern techniques that rely on various graph and operator parallelism methodologies rely on search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Srinjoy Das , Lawrence Rauchwerger

We propose a Cholesky factor parameterization of correlation matrices that facilitates a priori restrictions on the correlation matrix. It is a smooth and differentiable transform that allows additional boundary constraints on the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-14 Sean Pinkney

Interior-point methods for linear programming problems require the repeated solution of a linear system of equations. Solving these linear systems is non-trivial due to the severe ill-conditioning of the matrices towards convergence. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jeffrey Cornelis , Wim Vanroose

Cholesky linear solvers are a critical bottleneck in challenging applications within computer graphics and scientific computing. These applications include but are not limited to elastodynamic barrier methods such as Incremental Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Behrooz Zarebavani , Danny M. Kaufman , David I. W. Levin , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

We introduce the $k$-banded Cholesky prior for estimating a high-dimensional bandable precision matrix via the modified Cholesky decomposition. The bandable assumption is imposed on the Cholesky factor of the decomposition. We obtained the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Kyoungjae Lee , Jaeyong Lee

The Cholesky decomposition is a fundamental tool for solving linear systems with symmetric and positive definite matrices which are ubiquitous in linear algebra, optimization, and machine learning. Its numerical stability can be improved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Filip de Roos , Fabio Muratore

Scalable QR factorization algorithms for solving least squares and eigenvalue problems are critical given the increasing parallelism within modern machines. We introduce a more general parallelization of the CholeskyQR2 algorithm and show…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Edward Hutter , Edgar Solomonik

Geostatistics represents one of the most challenging classes of scientific applications due to the desire to incorporate an ever increasing number of geospatial locations to accurately model and predict environmental phenomena. For example,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Sameh Abdulah , Hatem Ltaief , Ying Sun , Marc G. Genton , David E. Keyes

With multi-core processors a ubiquitous building block of modern supercomputers, it is now past time to enable applications to embrace these developments in processor design. To achieve exascale performance, applications will need ways of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Michele Weiland , Lawrence Mitchell , Gerard Gorman , Stephan Kramer , Mark Parsons , James Southern