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The CERFACS experience

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We consider various aspects of the European Centre, CERFACS, located in Toulouse, SW France. We discuss its history and structure which we believe to be unique among European or indeed world scientific centres. We then describe some of the current research activities of the Parallel Algorithm Group at CERFACS. These include work on computational kernels for linear algebra, the solution of sparse systems by both direct and iterative methods, and the porting of industrial codes to parallel computers.

Invited lecture at PARA91, an International Workshop on Parallel Scientific Computing at UNI-C, Lyngby, Denmark, June 21st to 23rd, 1994.

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  1. CERFACS, 42 Age G Coriolis, 31057, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Michel J. Daydé

  2. ENSEEIHT-IRIT, 2 rue Camichel, 31071, Tulouse Cedex, France

    Michel J. Daydé

  3. CERFACS, 42 Age G Coriolis, 31057, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Iain S. Duff

  4. RAL, OX110QX, Chilton, Oxon, England

    Iain S. Duff

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Daydé, M.J., Duff, I.S. (1994). The CERFACS experience. In: Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Scientific Computing. PARA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030145

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