Improved parallel algorithm for solving block-tridiagonal linear equations
Yufeng Nie · Computer Engineering and Applications Journal · 2009
A parallel algorithm for block-tridiagonal linear equations on distributed-memory multi-computers is presented.Making full use of the special structure of the coefficient matrix,the algorithm is based on decomposing the coefficient matrix properly and approximately disposing the matrix.The communication only needs twice between the adjacent processors.In theory,this paper gives a sufficient condition about effectivity of this algorithm.Finally,some numerical results on HP rx2600 cluster show that practice computing is consistent with theory.The algorithm’s parallelism is preferable.