PBLAS -- Storage Conventions

• An M_ -by-N_ matrix is block-partitioned into MB_-by-NB_ blocks and distributed according to the two-dimensional block-cyclic scheme

load balanced computations, scalability

• Locally, the scattered columns are stored contiguously (FORTRAN “Column Major”)

  • re-use of the BLAS (leading dimension LLD_)

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