Abstract
The computation of the tropical prevariety is the first step in the application of polyhedral methods to compute positive dimensional solution sets of polynomial systems. In particular, pretropisms are candidate leading exponents for the power series developments of the solutions. The computation of the power series may start as soon as one pretropism is available, so our parallel computation of the tropical prevariety has an application in a pipelined solver. We present a parallel implementation of dynamic enumeration. Our first distributed memory implementation with forked processes achieved good speedups, but quite often resulted in large variations in the execution times of the processes. The shared memory multithreaded version applies work stealing to reduce the variability of the run time. Our implementation applies the thread safe Parma Polyhedral Library (PPL), in exact arithmetic with the GNU Multiprecision Arithmetic Library (GMP), aided by the fast memory allocations of TCMalloc. Our parallel implementation is capable of computing the tropical prevariety of the cyclic 16-roots problem. We also report on computational experiments on the n-body and n-vortex problems; our computational results compare favorably with Gfan.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation, PASCO 2017 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 23 Jul 2017 |
| Article number | a9 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450352888 |
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| Publication status | Published - 23 Jul 2017 |
| Event | International Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation - Duration: 23 Jul 2017 → 24 Jul 2017 Conference number: July 23 - 24, 2017 |
Workshop
| Workshop | International Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation |
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| Number | July 23 - 24, 2017 |
| Period | 23/07/2017 → 24/07/2017 |
| Series | PASCO 2017 |
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