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Processes versus Processors

 

In ScaLAPACK, algorithms are presented in terms of processes, rather than physical processors. In general there may be several processes on a processor, in which case we assume that the runtime system handles the scheduling of processes. In the absence of such a runtime system, ScaLAPACK assumes one process per processor.



Susan Blackford
Thu Jul 25 15:38:00 EDT 1996