Characterizing Computers and Optimizing the FACR(l) Poisson-Solver on Parallel Unicomputers

Authors:
R. W. Hockney
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Reading University
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Year:
1983

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Abstract

A two-parameter description of any computer is given that characterizes the performance of serial, pipelined, and array-like architectures. The first parameter (r8) is the traditional maximum performance in megaflops, and the new second parameter (n陆) measures the apparent parallelism of the computer. For computers with a single instruction stream (unicomputers), the relative performance of two algorithms on the same computer depends only on n陆 and the average vector length of the algorithm. The performance of a family of FACR direct methods for solving Poisson's equation is optimized on the basis of this characterization.