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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2003
Fred Gehrung Gustavson, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
John A. Gunnels, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
James C. Sexton, Dublin, IE;
Fred Gehrung Gustavson, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
John A. Gunnels, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
James C. Sexton, Dublin, IE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method (and structure) of executing a matrix operation, includes, for a matrix A, separating the matrix A into blocks, each block having a size p-by-q. The blocks of size p-by-q are then stored in a cache or memory in at least one of the two following ways. The elements in at least one of the blocks is stored in a format in which elements of the block occupy a location different from an original location in the block, and/or the blocks of size p-by-q are stored in a format in which at least one block occupies a position different relative to its original position in the matrix A.