Parallelism across time in ODEs (Q686543)

The only way that it seems possible to use large-scale parallelism on small initial value problems for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is via parallelism across time with iterative methods, such as waveform. In an earlier paper of \textit{C. W. Gear} [ibid. 11, No. 1-3, 27-43 (1993; Zbl 0798.65075)] the basic method was described. This paper reports on some numerical test done with CBA(I), CBA(II) and ICBA methods. These methods are described, analyzed (convergence, stability region). A series of numerical tests is performed. Five numerical examples are presented. From the authors' conclusion: The data obtained does not lead us to be optimistic about the potential of the proposed methods except under very special circumstances.