University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Masters Theses Dissertations and Theses November 2014 Enhanced Capabilities of the Spike Algorithm and a New Spike- OpenMP Solver Braegan S. Spring University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2 Recommended Citation Spring, Braegan S., "Enhanced Capabilities of the Spike Algorithm and a New Spike-OpenMP Solver" (2014). Masters Theses. 116. https://doi.org/10.7275/5912243 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/116 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ENHANCED CAPABILITIES OF THE SPIKE ALGORITHM AND A NEW SPIKE-OPENMP SOLVER A Thesis Presented by BRAEGAN SPRING Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING September 2014 Electrical and Computer Engineering ENHANCED CAPABILITIES OF THE SPIKE ALGORITHM AND A NEW SPIKE-OPENMP SOLVER A Thesis Presented by BRAEGAN SPRING Approved as to style and content by: Eric Polizzi, Chair Zlatan Aksamija, Member Hans Johnston, Member Christopher V. Hollot , Department Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Zlatan Aksamija & Dr. Hans Johnston for assisting me in this project, Dr. Polizzi for guiding me through it, and Dr. Anderson for his help beforehand. iii ABSTRACT ENHANCED CAPABILITIES OF THE SPIKE ALGORITHM AND A NEW SPIKE-OPENMP SOLVER SEPTEMBER 2014 BRAEGAN SPRING B.Sc., UNIVERSITY MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST M.S.E.C.E., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Eric Polizzi SPIKE is a parallel algorithm to solve block tridiagonal matrices.