PDLARF(l)

📦 version 1.5, in ubuntu jammy

💖 PDLARF 💖

okay so hi bestie, welcome to PDLARF(l) — she's a LAPACK auxiliary routine and yes she's running version 1.5, vintage but iconic, she ate and left no crumbs. If you've got a real elementary reflector and a distributed matrix and you need them to meet, this is the page for you. buckle up, it's giving linear algebra 💅

✨ NAME ✨

PDLARF — applies a real elementary reflector Q (or Q**T) to a real M-by-N distributed matrix sub( C ) = C(IC:IC+M-1,JC:JC+N-1), from either the left or the right. that's the whole vibe. periodt.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

SUBROUTINE PDLARF( SIDE, M, N, V, IV, JV, DESCV, INCV, TAU, C, IC, JC,
                   DESCC, WORK )

    CHARACTER      SIDE

    INTEGER        IC, INCV, IV, JC, JV, M, N

    INTEGER        DESCC( * ), DESCV( * )

    DOUBLE         PRECISION C( * ), TAU( * ), V( * ), WORK( * )

🌸 PURPOSE 🌸

okay so PDLARF applies a real elementary reflector Q (or Q**T) to a real M-by-N distributed matrix sub( C ) = C(IC:IC+M-1,JC:JC+N-1), from either the left or the right. Q is represented in the form

Q = I - tau * v * v'

where tau is a real scalar and v is a real vector. 🫶

If tau = 0, then Q is taken to be the unit matrix. literally just vibes, nothing happens.

📓 Notes 📓

Each global data object is described by an associated description vector. This vector stores the information required to establish the mapping between an object element and its corresponding process and memory location.

Let A be a generic term for any 2D block cyclicly distributed array. Such a global array has an associated description vector DESCA. In the following comments, the character _ should be read as "of the global array".

DTYPE_A (global) — stored in DESCA( DTYPE_ ) — the descriptor type. In this case, DTYPE_A = 1.
CTXT_A (global) — stored in DESCA( CTXT_ ) — the BLACS context handle, indicating the BLACS process grid A is distributed over. The context itself is global, but the handle (the integer value) may vary.
M_A (global) — stored in DESCA( M_ ) — the number of rows in the global array A.
N_A (global) — stored in DESCA( N_ ) — the number of columns in the global array A.
MB_A (global) — stored in DESCA( MB_ ) — the blocking factor used to distribute the rows of the array.
NB_A (global) — stored in DESCA( NB_ ) — the blocking factor used to distribute the columns of the array.
RSRC_A (global) — stored in DESCA( RSRC_ ) — the process row over which the first row of the array A is distributed.
CSRC_A (global) — stored in DESCA( CSRC_ ) — the process column over which the first column of the array A is distributed.
LLD_A (local) — stored in DESCA( LLD_ ) — the leading dimension of the local array. LLD_A >= MAX(1,LOCr(M_A)).

Let K be the number of rows or columns of a distributed matrix, and assume that its process grid has dimension p x q.

LOCr( K ) denotes the number of elements of K that a process would receive if K were distributed over the p processes of its process column.

Similarly, LOCc( K ) denotes the number of elements of K that a process would receive if K were distributed over the q processes of its process row.

The values of LOCr() and LOCc() may be determined via a call to the ScaLAPACK tool function, NUMROC:

LOCr( M ) = NUMROC( M, MB_A, MYROW, RSRC_A, NPROW ),
LOCc( N ) = NUMROC( N, NB_A, MYCOL, CSRC_A, NPCOL ).

An upper bound for these quantities may be computed by:

LOCr( M ) <= ceil( ceil(M/MB_A)/NPROW )*MB_A
LOCc( N ) <= ceil( ceil(N/NB_A)/NPCOL )*NB_A

Because vectors may be viewed as a subclass of matrices, a distributed vector is considered to be a distributed matrix. cute, love that for them. ✨

🚧 Restrictions 🚧

If SIDE = 'Left' and INCV = 1, then the row process having the first entry V(IV,JV) must also have the first row of sub( C ). Moreover, MOD(IV-1,MB_V) must be equal to MOD(IC-1,MB_C), if INCV=M_V, only the last equality must be satisfied.

If SIDE = 'Right' and INCV = M_V then the column process having the first entry V(IV,JV) must also have the first column of sub( C ) and MOD(JV-1,NB_V) must be equal to MOD(JC-1,NB_C), if INCV = 1 only the last equality must be satisfied.

bestie these are not suggestions. ignore them and your results are gonna be a whole crime scene. 😭

👑 ARGUMENTS 👑

SIDE (global input) CHARACTER
- = 'L': form Q * sub( C ),
- = 'R': form sub( C ) * Q, Q = Q**T.
M (global input) INTEGER — the number of rows to be operated on i.e the number of rows of the distributed submatrix sub( C ). M >= 0.
N (global input) INTEGER — the number of columns to be operated on i.e the number of columns of the distributed submatrix sub( C ). N >= 0.
V (local input) DOUBLE PRECISION pointer into the local memory to an array of dimension (LLD_V,*) containing the local pieces of the distributed vectors V representing the Householder transformation Q,
- V(IV:IV+M-1,JV) if SIDE = 'L' and INCV = 1,
- V(IV,JV:JV+M-1) if SIDE = 'L' and INCV = M_V,
- V(IV:IV+N-1,JV) if SIDE = 'R' and INCV = 1,
- V(IV,JV:JV+N-1) if SIDE = 'R' and INCV = M_V,

The vector v in the representation of Q. V is not used if TAU = 0.

IV (global input) INTEGER — the row index in the global array V indicating the first row of sub( V ).
JV (global input) INTEGER — the column index in the global array V indicating the first column of sub( V ).
DESCV (global and local input) INTEGER array of dimension DLEN_. The array descriptor for the distributed matrix V.
INCV (global input) INTEGER — the global increment for the elements of V. Only two values of INCV are supported in this version, namely 1 and M_V. INCV must not be zero. 🚫
TAU (local input) DOUBLE PRECISION, array, dimension LOCc(JV) if INCV = 1, and LOCr(IV) otherwise. This array contains the Householder scalars related to the Householder vectors. TAU is tied to the distributed matrix V.
C (local input/local output) DOUBLE PRECISION pointer into the local memory to an array of dimension (LLD_C, LOCc(JC+N-1) ), containing the local pieces of sub( C ). On exit, sub( C ) is overwritten by the Q * sub( C ) if SIDE = 'L', or sub( C ) * Q if SIDE = 'R'.
IC (global input) INTEGER — the row index in the global array C indicating the first row of sub( C ).
JC (global input) INTEGER — the column index in the global array C indicating the first column of sub( C ).
DESCC (global and local input) INTEGER array of dimension DLEN_. The array descriptor for the distributed matrix C.
WORK (local workspace) DOUBLE PRECISION array, dimension (LWORK)

If INCV = 1, if SIDE = 'L', if IVCOL = ICCOL, LWORK >= NqC0 else
LWORK >= MpC0 + MAX( 1, NqC0 ) end if else if SIDE = 'R', LWORK
>= NqC0 + MAX( MAX( 1, MpC0 ), NUMROC( NUMROC(
N+ICOFFC,NB_V,0,0,NPCOL ),NB_V,0,0,LCMQ ) ) end if else if INCV
= M_V, if SIDE = 'L', LWORK >= MpC0 + MAX( MAX( 1, NqC0 ),
NUMROC( NUMROC( M+IROFFC,MB_V,0,0,NPROW ),MB_V,0,0,LCMP ) ) else
if SIDE = 'R', if IVROW = ICROW, LWORK >= MpC0 else LWORK >=
NqC0 + MAX( 1, MpC0 ) end if end if end if

where LCM is the least common multiple of NPROW and NPCOL and LCM = ILCM( NPROW, NPCOL ), LCMP = LCM / NPROW, LCMQ = LCM / NPCOL,

IROFFC = MOD( IC-1, MB_C ), ICOFFC = MOD( JC-1, NB_C ), ICROW = INDXG2P( IC, MB_C, MYROW, RSRC_C, NPROW ), ICCOL = INDXG2P( JC, NB_C, MYCOL, CSRC_C, NPCOL ), MpC0 = NUMROC( M+IROFFC, MB_C, MYROW, ICROW, NPROW ), NqC0 = NUMROC( N+ICOFFC, NB_C, MYCOL, ICCOL, NPCOL ),

ILCM, INDXG2P and NUMROC are ScaLAPACK tool functions; MYROW, MYCOL, NPROW and NPCOL can be determined by calling the subroutine BLACS_GRIDINFO.

Alignment requirements ======================

The distributed submatrices V(IV:*, JV:*) and C(IC:IC+M-1,JC:JC+N-1) must verify some alignment properties, namely the following expressions should be true:

MB_V = NB_V,

If INCV = 1,
   If SIDE = 'Left',  ( MB_V.EQ.MB_C .AND.
                        IROFFV.EQ.IROFFC .AND. IVROW.EQ.ICROW )
   If SIDE = 'Right', ( MB_V.EQ.NB_A .AND. MB_V.EQ.NB_C .AND.
                        IROFFV.EQ.ICOFFC )
else if INCV = M_V,
   If SIDE = 'Left',  ( MB_V.EQ.NB_V .AND. MB_V.EQ.MB_C
                        .AND. ICOFFV.EQ.IROFFC )
   If SIDE = 'Right', ( NB_V.EQ.NB_C .AND.
                        ICOFFV.EQ.ICOFFC .AND. IVCOL.EQ.ICCOL )
end if

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 you now know more about distributed Householder reflectors than like 99% of the population. main character energy fr fr. 🧚

later, queen — this was LAPACK version 1.5, dated 12 May 1997, and she's still serving. 🎀👑💅

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