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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF53-408</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1994-53-408</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A parallel algorithm for stiff ordinary differential equations</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Petcu</surname><given-names>Dana</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Timişoara, 1900 Timişoara, B-dul Vasile Pârvan 4, Romania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1994</year></pub-date><volume>5</volume><issue>3-4</issue><fpage>373</fpage><lpage>384</lpage><abstract><p>The problem associated with the stiff ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems in parallel processing is that the calculus can not be started simultaneously on many processors with an explicit formula. The proposed algorithm is constructed for a special classes of stiff ODE, those of the form y′(t)=A(t)y(t)+g(t). It has a high efficiency in the implementation on a distributed memory multiprocessor when the ODEs function has many components. The approximation error is equal to that produced by the analogous sequential algorithm.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>parallel numerical algorithm</kwd><kwd>stiff ordinary differential equations</kwd><kwd>implementation efficiency</kwd><kwd>distributed memory multiprocessor</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>