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A Parallel Preconditioning Strategy for Efficient Transistor-Level Circuit Simulation, H. K. Thornquist, E. R. Keiter, R. J. Hoekstra, D. M. Day, E. G. Boman, accepted at ICCAD 2009.

Hypergraph-based Unsymmetric Nested Dissection Ordering for Sparse LU Factorization, L. Grigori, E.G. Boman, S. Donfack, and T.A. Davis, Sandia Report 2008-1290J, 2008, submitted for publication. (Revised April 2009.)

Distributed-memory Parallel Algorithms for Distance-2 Coloring and Their Application to Derivative Computation, D. Bozdag, U. Catalyurek, A. Gebremedhin, F. Manne, E.G. Boman, F. Ozguner, 2008, submitted for publication. (Revised May 2009.)

Popular Science (top of page)


Combinatorial Algorithms for Petascale Science, A. Pothen, A.H. Gebremedhin, F. Dobrian; E.G. Boman, K.D. Devine, B.A. Hendrickson P. Hovland, B. Norris, J. Utke; U. Catalyurek; M.M. Strout; SciDAC Review, Issue 5, pp. 26--35, Fall 2007.

Journal Papers (top of page)


A Repartitioning Hypergraph Model for Dynamic Load Balancing, U.V. Catalyurek, E.G. Boman, K.D. Devine, D. Bozdag, R.T. Heaphy, and Lee Ann Riesen, JPDC vol. 69, iss. 8, pp. 711-724, 2009. (Preprint version: Sandia Report 2008-2304J )

The US Environmental Protection Agency uses Operations Research to Reduce Drinking Water Contamination Risks (Franz Edelman Award Finalist), R. Murray, W.E. Hart, C.A. Phillips, J. Berry, E.G. Boman, R. Carr, L.A. Riesen, J.P. Watson, et al., INFORMS Interfaces, vol 39, no. 1, Jan-Feb 2009, pp. 57-68. DOI: 10.1287/inte.1080.0415.

A Framework for Scalable Parallel Greedy Coloring on Distributed Memory Computers, D. Bozdag, A.H. Gebremedhin, F. Manne, E.G. Boman and U.V. Catalyurek, J. on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol 68, No 4, pp 515--535, 2008. (Preprint)

Optimal Embeddings and Eigenvalues in Support Theory, Erik G Boman, Stephen Guattery, Bruce Hendrickson, SIAM J. on Matrix Analysis, vol 29, no 2, pp. 596-605, 2007.

New Challenges in Dynamic Load-Balancing, K. Devine et al, Applied Numerical Mathematics, v 52, pp. 133-152, 2005.

Solving Elliptic Finite Element Systems in Near-Linear Time with Support Preconditioners, E.G. Boman, B. Hendrickson, and S. Vavasis, SIAM J. on Numerical Analysis, v.46, no. 6, pp. 3264-3284, 2008. ArXiv version.

On Factor Width and Symmetric H-matrices, E.G. Boman, D. Chen, O. Parekh, S. Toledo, Lin. Alg. Appl., vol 405, pp. 239-248, Aug 2005 ( preprint version)

Support Theory for Preconditioning, E. G. Boman and B. Hendrickson, SIAM J. of Matrix Analysis, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 694-717, 2004. (Get a copy for your personal use )

Maximum-Weight-Basis Preconditioners, E. G. Boman, D. Chen, B. Hendrickson, and S. Toledo, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, vol 11 issue 8-9 pp. 695-721, 2004.

Zoltan: Data Management Services for Parallel Dynamic Applications, Karen Devine, Erik Boman, Robert Heaphy, Bruce Hendrickson and Courtenay Vaughan, Computing in Science and Engineering, vol 4, no 2, pp. 90-97, 2002.

A Spectral Algorithm for Seriation and the Consecutive Ones Problem, J. E. Atkins, E. G. Boman, and B. Hendrickson, SIAM J. of Computing, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 297-310, 1998. (Get a copy for your personal use)

Conference Papers (top of page)


Advances in Parallel Partitioning, Load Balancing, and Matrix Ordering, E.G. Boman, U.V. Catalyurek, C. Chevalier, K.D. Devine, I. Safro, M.M. Wolf, J. of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 180, 012008. (SciDAC09 Conference, San Diego, June 2009.) doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/180/1/012008

Getting Started With Zoltan: A Short Tutorial, K.D. Devine, E.G. Boman, L.A. Riesen, U.V. Catalyurek, C. Chevalier, Proc. of Dagstuhl Symposium on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, 2009

Combinatorial Algorithms for Computational Science and Engineering, E.G. Boman, D. Bozdag, U.V. Catalyurek, K.D. Devine, A.H. Gebremedhin, P.D. Hovland, and A. Pothen, SciDAC 2008, J. of Physics: Conference Series 125, 012071 (6 pages), 2008. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/125/1/012071

Optimizing Parallel Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication by Corner Partitioning, M. M. Wolf, E.G. Boman and B. Hendrickson, PARA08, Trondheim, Norway, May 2008.

Low-memory Lagrangian relaxation methods for sensor placement in municipal water networks, C.A. Phillips, J. Berry, E.G. Boman, L.A. Riesen, Proc. of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008, ASCE 2008.

The TEVA-SPOT Toolkit for Drinking Water Contaminant Warning System Design, W.E. Hart, C.A. Phillips, J. Berry, E.G. Boman, R. Murray, L.A. Riesen, J.P. Watson, Proc. of World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008, ASCE, 2008.

Limited Memory Techniques for Sensor Placement in Water Distribution Networks, W.E Hart, J. Berry, E.G. Boman, C.A. Phillips, L.A. Riesen, J.P. Watson, Workshop on Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION-2), Nov 2007.

A Nested Dissection Approach to Sparse Matrix Partitioning, Erik G. Boman, ICIAM'07, Proc. Appl. Math. and Mech., Volume 7 Issue 1, pp. 1010803 - 1010804. (DOI: 10.1002/pamm.200700703)

Enabling high performance computational science through combinatorial algorithms, E.G. Boman, D. Bozdag, U.V. Catalyurek, K.D. Devine, A.H. Gebremedhin, P. Hovland, A. Pothen and M.M. Strout, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 78, 012058 (2007), SciDAC 2007.

Hypergraph-based Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Scientific Computations, U.V. Catalyurek, E.G. Boman, K.D. Devine, D. Bozdag, R.T. Heaphy, and Lee Ann Riesen, IPDPS'07. Winner of "Best Paper" award in the Algorithms track!

Combinatorial Algorithms Enabling Computational Science: Tales from the Front, S. Bhowmick, E. Boman, K. Devine, A. Gebremedhin, B. Hendrickson, P. Hovland, T. Munson and A. Pothen, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 46 (2006), 453--457, SciDAC 2006.

Parallel Hypergraph Partitioning for Scientific Computing, K.D. Devine, E.G. Boman, R.T. Heaphy, R. Bisseling, and U.V. Catalyurek, IPDPS'06, April 2006.

A Parallel Distance-2 Graph Coloring Algorithm for Distributed Memory Computers, D. Bozdag, U. Catalyurek, A. Gebremedhin, F. Manne, E.G. Boman, F. Ozguner, HPCC 2005, Sept. 2005.

A Scalable Parallel Graph Coloring Algorithm for Distributed Memory Computers, E.G. Boman, D. Bozdag, U. Catalyurek, A. Gebremedhin, F. Manne, Euro-Par 2005, LNCS, v. 3648, pp. 241-251, 2005.

An Iterative Approach to Computing Directions of Negative Curvature, E.G. Boman and W. Murray, presented at the Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, March 1998.

A Multilevel Algorithm for Reducing the Envelope of Sparse Matrices, E. G. Boman and B. Hendrickson, Tech.Rep. SCCM-96-14, Stanford University, 1996; also presented at the SIAM Appl. Lin. Alg. conference in Oct 1997.

Book Chapters (top of page)


Hypergraph-based Dynamic Partitioning and Load-Balancing, U.V. Catalyurek, D. Bozdag, K.D. Devine, E.G. Boman, R.T. Heaphy, L.A. Riesen, in "Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Adaptive Applications", edited by Manish Parashar et al., Wiley 2008.

Partitioning and Load Balancing for Emerging Parallel Applications, Karen D. Devine, Erik G. Boman, George Karypis, in "Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing", edited by M.A. Heroux, P. Raghavan, and H.D. Simon, SIAM 2006.


Ph.D. thesis (top of page)


Infeasibility and negative curvature in optimization, completed Feb. 1999.

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