Uniform Approach for Solving some Classical Problems on a Linear Array

  • Authors:
  • D. R. O'Hallaron

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

It is shown that a number of classical problems from linear algebra and graph theory,including instances of the algebraic path problem, matrix multiplication, matrix triangularization, and matrix transpose, can be solved using the same basic recurrence. Asimple mapping of the recurrence onto a unidirectional linear array is discussed. Qualitative advantages to programming linear arrays using this approach include uniformity of design, simplicity of programming, and scalability to larger problems. The major disadvantage is that the resulting algorithms are not necessarily optimal.