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Parallel Colt

Collection of libraries for Java

Parallel Colt is a set of multithreaded version of Colt. It is a collection of open-source libraries for High Performance Scientific and Technical Computing written in Java. It contains all the original capabilities of Colt and adds several new ones, with a focus on multi-threaded algorithms.

01Capabilities

Parallel Colt has all the capabilities of the original Colt library, with the following additions.

  • Multithreading
  • Specialized Matrix data structures
  • JPlasma
    • Java port of PLASMA (Parallel Linear Algebra for Scalable Multi-core Architectures).
  • CSparseJ
    • CSparseJ is a Java port of CSparse (a Concise Sparse matrix package).
  • Netlib-java
    • Netlib is a collection of mission-critical software components for linear algebra systems (i.e. working with vectors or matrices).
  • Solvers and preconditioners
  • Nonlinear Optimization
    • Java translations of the 1-dimensional minimization routine from the MINPACK
  • Matrix reader/writer
  • All classes that use floating-point arithmetic are implemented in single and double precision.
  • Parallel quicksort algorithm

02Usage example

Example of singular value decomposition (SVD):

DenseDoubleAlgebra alg = new DenseDoubleAlgebra(); DenseDoubleSingularValueDecomposition s = alg.svd(matA); DoubleMatrix2D U = s.getU(); DoubleMatrix2D S = s.getS(); DoubleMatrix2D V = s.getV();

Example of matrix multiplication:

DenseDoubleAlgebra alg = new DenseDoubleAlgebra(); DoubleMatrix2D result = alg.mult(matA,matB);
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