Design of a Linear Programming System for the ILLIAC IV.

Abstract

This paper outlines a design for implementing a linear programming system on the ILLIAC IV computer. The central concern is to take advantage of the special features of the ILLIAC IV (64 parallel processing elements, large fast disk memory and relatively small fast core memory) and at the same time to take advantage of the sparsity of real large-scale linear programs and the (mostly serial) methodology which has been developed to exploit this sparsity. This requires both the adaption of existing techniques to a parallel environment and the development of a new parallel techniques for efficient sparse matrix processing. It appears that this can be done successfully and that ILLIAC IV should be able to solve problems considerably larger than those which can be attempted on serial computers. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA027440

Entities

People

  • C. E. Pfefferkorn
  • J. A. Tomlin

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Environment
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematics
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Sparse Matrix

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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