[CSC 435] Matrix Calculations and SMP Programming...

[Andrew Pounds]

Gentlemen - I don't know if you have already figured this out, but your 
two textbooks are excellent reference books for OpenMP and Pthreads 
programming as they apply to linear algebra calculations. Your Pthreads 
book, which is really the definitive work on Pthreads,  has several 
examples of vector and matrix calculations (already coded in C and 
Pthreads).  You "Fundamentals of Parallel Processing" text has a good 
description of most of the OpenMP statements, what they are good for, 
pseudocode that closely mimics what you would actually code in C or 
Fortran, AND complete source code for things like Gaussian Elimination 
(with OpenMP statements included)!

I am perfectly fine with you using these codes as starting points, or 
incorporating major pieces of them into your code.  Just make sure that, 
if you use the code, that you CITE it in your code (author, ref, page 
number, etc, using ACM type standards).



-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds at theochem.mercer.edu)
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627