2 Templates and Linear Algebra Objects

     

with Carter Edwards, John Gunnels, and James Overfelt In this chapter, we present the basic calls provided by PLAPACK to initialize the environment, create a template (description) for the distribution of vectors and matrices, and create linear algebra objects that describe the distributed vectors and matrices.

• 2.1 Initializing PLAPACK
• 2.2 Distribution Templates
  • 2.2.1 Template creation
  • 2.2.2 Template destruction
  • 2.2.3 Template inquiry routines
• 2.3 Linear Algebra Objects
  • 2.3.1 Linear algebra object creation
  • 2.3.2 Linear algebra object destruction
  • 2.3.3 Linear algebra object inquiry routines
  • 2.3.4 Extracting and setting local data
  • 2.3.5 Initializing object data
• 2.4 Example
• 2.5 Return Values
• 2.6 More Operations and Information