The emergence and continuing use of multi-core architectures and graphics processing units require changes in the existing software and sometimes even a redesign of the established algorithms in order to take advantage of now prevailing parallelism. Parallel Linear Algebra for Scalable Multi-core Architectures (PLASMA) and Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multics Architectures (MAGMA ) are two projects that aims to achieve high performance and portability across a wide range of multi-core architectures and hybrid systems respectively. We present in this document a comparative study of PLASMA's performance against established linear algebra packages and some preliminary results of MAGMA on hybrid multi-core and GPU systems.
A methodology similar to PLASMA is used in the MAGMA (matrix algebra on GPU and multicore architectures) framework REF .
Numerical linear algebra on emerging architectures: The PLASMA and MAGMA projects
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
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