View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS ELSEIVIER Linear Algebra and its Applications 275~ 276 (1998) 451 470 Parallel codes for computing the numerical rank ’ Gregorio Quintana-Orti ***, Enrique S. Quintana-Orti ’ Abstract In this paper we present an experimental comparison of several numerical tools for computing the numerical rank of dense matrices. The study includes the well-known SVD. the URV decomposition, and several rank-revealing QR factorizations: the QR factorization with column pivoting, and two QR factorizations with restricted column pivoting. Two different parallel programming methodologies are analyzed in our paper. First, we present block-partitioned algorithms for the URV decomposition and rank-re- vealing QR factorizations which provide efficient implementations on shared memory environments. Furthermore, we also present parallel distributed algorithms, based on the message-passing paradigm, for computing rank-revealing QR factorizations on mul- ticomputers. 0 1998 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Consider the matrix A E KY’“” (w.1.o.g. m 3 n), and define its rank as 1’ := rank(il) = dim(range(A)). The rank of a matrix is related to its singular values a(A) = {crt, 02,. , o,,}, p = min(m, H), since *Corresponding author. E-mail:
[email protected]. ’ All authors were partially supported by the Spanish CICYT project TIC 96-1062~CO3-03. ’ This work was partially carried out while the author was visiting the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. ’ E-mail:
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