Hom4PS-3: A parallel numerical solver for systems of polynomial equations based on polyhedral homotopy continuation methods

Abstract

Homotopy continuation methods have been proved to be an efficient and reliable class of numerical methods for solving systems of polynomial equations which occur frequently in various fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. Based on the successful software package Hom4PS-2.0 for solving such polynomial systems, Hom4PS-3 has a new fully modular design which allows it to be easily extended. It implements many different numerical homotopy methods including the Polyhedral Homotopy continuation method. Furthermore, it is capable of carrying out computation in parallel on a wide range of hardware architectures including multi-core systems, computer clusters, distributed environments, and GPUs with great efficiency and scalability. Designed to be user-friendly, it includes interfaces to a variety of existing mathematical software and programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Octave, Sage and Matlab. © 2014 Springer-Verlag.