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EPSRC Reference: GR/J08942/01
Title: PARALLEL LINEAR PROGRAMMING ON MIMD MACHINES BASED ON THE REVISED SIMPLEX METHOD WITH A FACTORED INVERSE
Principal Investigator: McKinnon, Professor K
Other Investigators:
Thomas, Professor L Hall, Dr J
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Department: Sch of Mathematics
Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 October 1993 Ends: 30 June 1997 Value (£): 94,455
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Parallel Computing
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The aim of this project is to gain an understanding of the amount and types of parallelism in the simplex method and to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve substantial speed-ups relative to the best serial methods for the full range of practical LP problems. The algorithms developed will be implemented on distributed memory MIMD machines. A related issue is the development of techniques which allow a factored inverse to be used in parallel when solving an unsymmetric sparse linear system.
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