Distributed identification of the lineality space of a cone

  • Authors:
  • Mario E. Caire;Francisco J. Lopez;David H. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • ECE Department, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA 79968;Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA 79968;ECE Department, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, USA 79968

  • Venue:
  • The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A distributed approach is described for solving lineality (or linearity) space (LS) problems with large cardinalities and a large number of dimensions. The LS solution has applications in engineering, science, and business, and includes a subset of solutions of the more general extended linear complementarity problem (ELCP). A parallel MATLAB framework is employed and results are computed on an 8-node Rocks based cluster computer using Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and the MPICH2 Message Passing Interface (MPI). Results show that both approaches perform comparably when solving distributed LS problems. This indicates that when deciding which parallel approach to use, the implementation details particular to the method are the decisive factors, which in this investigation give MPICH2 MPI the advantage.