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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Maxim Naumov, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sharanyan Chetlur, Banglore, IN;
Lung Sheng Chien, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Strzodka, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Philippe Vandermersch, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for re-factorizing a square input matrix on a parallel processor. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a matrix generator operable to generate an intermediate matrix by embedding a permuted form of the input matrix in a zeroed-out sparsity pattern of a combination of lower and upper triangular matrices resulting from a prior LU factorization of a previous matrix having a same sparsity pattern, reordering to minimize fill-in and pivoting strategy as the input matrix and (2) a re-factorizer associated with the matrix generator and operable to use parallel threads to apply an incomplete-LU factorization with zero fill-in on the intermediate matrix.