High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing for the BMI Eigenvalue Problem

  • Authors:
  • Kento Aida;Yoshiaki Futakata;Shinji Hara

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The BMI Eigenvalue Problem is one of optimization problems and is to minimize the greatest eigenvalue of a bilinear matrix function. This paper proposes a parallel algorithm to compute the 驴-optimal solution of the BMI Eigenvalue Problem on parallel and distributed computing systems. The proposed algorithm performs a parallel branch and bound method to compute the 驴-optimal solution using the Master-Worker paradigm. The performance evaluation results on PC clusters and a Grid computing system showed that the proposed algorithm reduced computation time of the BMI Eigenvalue problem to 1/91 of the sequential computation time on a PC cluster with 128CPUs and reduced that to 1/7 on a Grid computing system. The results also showed that tuning of the computational granularity on a worker was required to achieve the best performance on a Grid computing system.