From: Kevin Williams Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: Re: matrix mul Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 11:39:17 +0200 Organization: EMSS Message-Id: <3732B4C5.8E2DBE2F@emss.co.za> References: Reply-To: williams@emss.co.za Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------31572D4EE3DDA530E7DE2FDD" Cache-Post-Path: earth.adept.co.za!unknown@emss.co.za Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:5050 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------31572D4EE3DDA530E7DE2FDD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ping Xiong wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using matlab to do very basic matrix/vector > operations, but it took a lot of time to finish > every run. the matrix size is complex 1000 by > 1000, which needs about 66MB space. someone > suggests me to try parallel programming and to > use supercomputers. Can anyone tell me if this > is going to be efficient and possible to do the > job faster? > Thanks, Take a shifty at Scalapack. (http://netlib.org/scalapack/scalapack_home.html) Also take a look at the Beowulf project for Linux. Cheers, Kevin Williams > > Ping -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Kevin Williams, MIEEE Electromagnetic Software and Systems (EMSS) Stellenbosch, South Africa [http://emss.co.za] Tel/Fax: +27 21 880-1880/+27 21 880-1880/1727 PGP Fingerprint [0F 55 2E 51 63 05 C4 AC 01 C7 53 67 2E 47 6C 2A] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------31572D4EE3DDA530E7DE2FDD Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="williams.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Kevin Williams Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="williams.vcf" begin:vcard n:Williams;Kevin tel;fax:+27 21 880-1880 tel;work:+27 21 880-1880 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.emss.co.za org:EMSS adr:version:2.1;;PO Box 1354;STELLENBOSCH;;7599;South Africa version:2.1 email;internet:williams@emss.co.za fn:Dr K Williams end:vcard --------------31572D4EE3DDA530E7DE2FDD--