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16 years ago

Floating Point Matrix Multiplication

I want to multiply a 56x56 matrix with a 56x1 matrix in floating point. There is a altfp_matrix_mult megafunction which does not compute this quickly enough. I am looking for ideas to implement ...
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16 years ago

Since 56 in parallel is too many resources then split the large matrix by groups of rows - enough to meet the latency requirement. For example, use 7 matrix mults each processing 8 rows, then recollect the 7 8x1 results.