Portions of this paper were taken, with permission, from Using PLAPACK: Parallel Linear Algebra Package by R. van de Geijn, published by The MIT Press [9].
Access to various parallel architectures was provided by the following facilities: the University of Texas Computation Center's High Performance Computing Facility, the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics' Distributed Computing Laboratory, the Molecular Science Computing Facility in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the Intel Paragon system operated by the California Institute of Technology on behalf of the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium (Access to this facility was arranged by the California Institute of Technology), and Cray Research, a Silicon Graphics Company.
We would like to thank George Fann at PNNL for collecting the performance data for the IBM SP-2.