A new algorithm based on givens rotations for solving linear equations on fault-tolerant mesh-connected processors

In this paper, we propose a new I/O overhead free Givens rotations based parallel algorithm for solving a system of linear equations. The algorithm uses a new technique called two-sided elimination and requires an N x (N + 1) mesh-connected processor array to solve N linear equations in (5N - log N - 4) time steps. The array is well suited for VLSI implementation as identical processors with simple and regular interconnection pattern are required. We also describe a fault-tolerant scheme based on an algorithm based fault tolerance (ABFT) approach. This scheme has small hardware and time overhead and can tolerate up to N processor failures. © 1998 IEEE.