PARASOL Workshop

Sparse Matrix Solution on Distributed Architectures

This workshop was held at CERFACS on September 9th-10th, 1997 under the auspices of the EU LTR programme PARASOL. The programme, from which you can download material, follows. You can also access a list of participants.

PROGRAMME

(For jointly authored papers, speaker is underlined.)

• 14.00 - 15.00 : PARASOL Interface to New Parallel Solvers for Industrial Applications, John Reid (RAL), Alexander Supalov (GMD), and Clemens-August Thole (GMD)

Transparencies (10 KB) are available. You can also download the description of the parasol interface.

• 15.00 - 16.00 : A Distributed Memory Multifrontal Solver, Patrick Amestoy (ENSEEIHT), Iain Duff (RAL/CERFACS), and Jean-Yves L'Excellent (CERFACS)

Transparencies (371 KB) are available.

• 16.30 - 17.30 : ScaLAPACK, Antoine Petitet (NEC, Germany, previously University of Tennessee)

Transparencies (292 KB) are available.
Here is also a link to the ScaLAPACK home page

• 17.30 - 18.30 : Discussion

Wednesday 10th September 1997

• 09.30 - 10.30 : Some New, Additive Domain Decomposition Algorithms for Unstructured Problems with Applications to Oil and Offshore Industries , Petter Bjørstad, Maksymilian Dryja, and Eero Vainikko (University of Bergen)

  Transparencies (302 KB) are available.

• 11.00 - 12.00 Parallel Iterative Solution of Shifted Linear Systems - Applications in QCD and Medical Imaging, Andreas Frommer (University of Wuppertal)

Transparencies (125 KB) are available.

• 12.00 - 12.30 Discussion
• 14.00 - 15.00 Graph Partitioning with Emphasis on Parallel Aspects, François Pellegrini (LaBRI, University of Bordeaux-1)

Transparencies (125 KB) are available.

• 15.00 - 16.00 Parallel Implementation of Eigenproblem Solvers using Numerical Libraries, Hans-Peter Kersken (University of Stuttgart)

Transparencies (49 KB) are available.

• 16.30 - 17.00 Closing discussions