HOM4PS-2.0para: Parallelization of HOM4PS-2.0 for solving polynomial systems

HOM4PS-2.0 is a software package in FORTRAN 90 which implements the polyhedral homotopy continuation method for solving polynomial systems. It leads in speed over the existing software packages in the same category by huge margins. This article details the description of the parallel version of HOM4PS-2.0, named HOM4PS-2.0para. Excellent scalability in the numerical results shows that the parallelization of the homotopy method always provides a great amount of extra computing resources to help solve polynomial systems of larger size which would be very difficult to deal with otherwise.