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Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods
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This work discusses parallel and distributed architectures, complexity measures, and communication and synchronization issues, and it presents both Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel iterations, which serve as algorithms of reference for many of the computational approaches addressed later.Abstract:
gineering, computer science, operations research, and applied mathematics. It is essentially a self-contained work, with the development of the material occurring in the main body of the text and excellent appendices on linear algebra and analysis, graph theory, duality theory, and probability theory and Markov chains supporting it. The introduction discusses parallel and distributed architectures, complexity measures, and communication and synchronization issues, and it presents both Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel iterations, which serve as algorithms of reference for many of the computational approaches addressed later. After the introduction, the text is organized in two parts: synchronous algorithms and asynchronous algorithms. The discussion of synchronous algorithms comprises four chapters, with Chapter 2 presenting both direct methods (converging to the exact solution within a finite number of steps) and iterative methods for linearread more
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