=ADD=
=reftype=
14
=number=
99-09
=url=
ftp://ftp.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/techreports/1999/99-09.ps.gz
=year=
1999
=month=
04
=author=
Schreiner; Wolfgang
=title=
Developing a Distributed System for Algebraic Geometry
=abstract=
We report on a project on parallelizing parts of the software library
CASA for computing with and reasoning about objects in algebraic
geometry with applications in computer aided geometric design and
solid modeling. CASA is implemented in the language of the computer
algebra system Maple; we therefore have developed ``Distributed
Maple'' as an environment for executing parallel Maple programs on
multiple computers of a network. Using this environment, we have
started the parallelization of some important CASA algorithms; for a
particular subproblem we achieve a speedup of 15 on a heterogeneous
network with 24 processors distributed among PCs, workstations, and
shared memory multiprocessors.
=howpublished=
EURO-CM-PAR'99 Third Euro-conference on Parallel and Distributed
Computing for Computational Mechanics, Weimar, Germany, March 20--25,
1999, Barry H.V. Topping (ed.), Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh.
=sponsor=
FWF project P11160-TEC (HySaX)
=keywords=
parallel computing, computer networks, CASA, Maple, Java