A Library for Parallel Modular Arithmetic

  • Authors:
  • David Power;Russell J. Bradford

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par '99 Proceedings of the 5th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper describes a library of platform independent functions for performing modular arithmetic on a range of parallel hardware. It is based around an approximate Chinese remainder reconstruction which allows the most significant bits of the stored number to be calculated without the cost of a full reconstruction. We describe how this can be used to calculate the length of a modular number, and also its applications to comparison and division.