Possible Data Layouts

• Want good load balancing and use of Level 3 BLAS

• 1D block and cyclic column distributions

• 1D block-cycle column and 2D block-cyclic distribution

• 2D block-cyclic used in ScaLAPACK for dense matrices

Good load balancing

Good use of memory hierarchy

Good scalibility

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