Sensor networks are being used for implementation of a large number of applications involving distributed and collaborative computation. Extensive research has focused upon design ...
We study the forward and backward substitution phases of a sparse multifrontal factorization. These phases are often neglected in papers on sparse direct factorization but, in man...
Patrick Amestoy, Iain S. Duff, Abdou Guermouche, T...
Poor performance on numerical codes has slowed the adoption of Java within the technical computing community. In this paper we describe a prototype array library and a research pr...
Pedro V. Artigas, Manish Gupta, Samuel P. Midkiff,...
One of the outcomes of DARPA’s HPCS program has been the creation of three new high productivity languages: Chapel, Fortress, and X10. While these languages have introduced impro...
Parallel programming is facilitated by constructs which, unlike the widely used SPMD paradigm, provide programmers with a global view of the code and data structures. These constr...
Jia Guo, Ganesh Bikshandi, Daniel Hoeflinger, Gheo...