# An Easily Implemented, Block-Based Fast Marching Method with Superior Sequential and Parallel Performance

@article{Yang2019AnEI,
title={An Easily Implemented, Block-Based Fast Marching Method with Superior Sequential and Parallel Performance},
author={Jianming Yang},
journal={SIAM J. Sci. Comput.},
year={2019},
volume={41},
pages={C446-C478}
}
• Jianming Yang
• Published 31 October 2018
• Computer Science
• SIAM J. Sci. Comput.
The fast marching method is well-known for its worst-case optimal computational complexity in solving the Eikonal equation, and has been employed in numerous scientific and engineering fields. However, it has barely benefited from fast-advancing multi-core and many-core architectures, due to the challenges presented by its apparent sequential nature. In this paper, we present a straightforward block-based approach for a highly scalable parallelization of the fast marching method on shard-memory…
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