Duane Merrill

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Duane Merrill is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Duane Merrill has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 14 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 5 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Duane Merrill's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (16 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (8 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (5 papers). Duane Merrill is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (16 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (8 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (5 papers). Duane Merrill collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Poland. Duane Merrill's co-authors include Andrew Grimshaw, Michael Garland, Kim Hazelwood, J.S. Collofello, Luke N. Olson, Chris Smith, Mark Morgan, Hiro Kishimoto, David Snelling and John D. Owens and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer, ACM SIGPLAN Notices and Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience.

In The Last Decade

Duane Merrill

20 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Scalable GPU graph traversal 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Scalable GPU graph traversal
    2012 367 citations Duane Merrill, Michael Garland et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Duane Merrill United States 13 558 547 470 377 189 20 1.1k
Donald Nguyen United States 13 587 1.1× 609 1.1× 605 1.3× 341 0.9× 342 1.8× 30 1.1k
Andrew Lenharth United States 16 656 1.2× 628 1.1× 602 1.3× 597 1.6× 420 2.2× 29 1.4k
Jeremy T. Fineman United States 15 621 1.1× 809 1.5× 163 0.3× 277 0.7× 141 0.7× 64 1.1k
Narayanan Sundaram United States 20 690 1.2× 761 1.4× 951 2.0× 658 1.7× 508 2.7× 31 1.8k
Kanat Tangwongsan United States 16 222 0.4× 462 0.8× 199 0.4× 376 1.0× 130 0.7× 34 829
Douglas Gregor United States 12 285 0.5× 274 0.5× 247 0.5× 369 1.0× 266 1.4× 25 762
Kishore Kothapalli India 14 217 0.4× 416 0.8× 197 0.4× 191 0.5× 64 0.3× 76 665
Shmuel T. Klein Israel 18 190 0.3× 396 0.7× 317 0.7× 836 2.2× 156 0.8× 116 1.1k
Julian Shun United States 19 703 1.3× 844 1.5× 1.1k 2.4× 837 2.2× 465 2.5× 64 1.8k
John Feo United States 15 404 0.7× 479 0.9× 170 0.4× 210 0.6× 104 0.6× 58 758

Countries citing papers authored by Duane Merrill

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Fields of papers citing papers by Duane Merrill

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Duane Merrill. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Duane Merrill. The network helps show where Duane Merrill may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Duane Merrill

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Duane Merrill. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Duane Merrill based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Duane Merrill. Duane Merrill is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Merrill, Duane, et al.. (2023). Stream-K. 429–431. 10 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & Michael Garland. (2016). Merge-based parallel sparse matrix-vector multiplication. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 58. 39 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & Michael Garland. (2016). Merge-based sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) using the CSR storage format. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 51(8). 1–2. 18 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & Michael Garland. (2016). Merge-Based Parallel Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication. 678–689. 73 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & Michael Garland. (2016). Merge-based sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) using the CSR storage format. 1–2. 39 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane, Michael Garland, & Andrew Grimshaw. (2015). High-Performance and Scalable GPU Graph Traversal. 1(2). 1–30. 51 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane, et al.. (2015). Parallel Methods for Verifying the Consistency of Weakly-Ordered Architectures. 2. 51–62. 2 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane, et al.. (2015). Optimizing Sparse Matrix Operations on GPUs Using Merge Path. 407–416. 25 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane, Michael Garland, & Andrew Grimshaw. (2012). Scalable GPU graph traversal. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 47(8). 117–128. 98 indexed citations
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Grimshaw, Andrew & Duane Merrill. (2012). Parallel Scan for Stream Architectures. 36 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane, Michael Garland, & Andrew Grimshaw. (2012). Scalable GPU graph traversal. 117–128. 367 indexed citations breakdown →
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Merrill, Duane, Michael Garland, & Andrew Grimshaw. (2012). Policy-based tuning for performance portability and library co-optimization. 1–10. 15 indexed citations
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Grimshaw, Andrew & Duane Merrill. (2011). Allocation-oriented algorithm design with application to gpu computing. 11 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & Andrew Grimshaw. (2011). HIGH PERFORMANCE AND SCALABLE RADIX SORTING: A CASE STUDY OF IMPLEMENTING DYNAMIC PARALLELISM FOR GPU COMPUTING. Parallel Processing Letters. 21(2). 245–272. 125 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & Andrew Grimshaw. (2010). Revisiting sorting for GPGPU stream architectures. 545–546. 97 indexed citations
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Grimshaw, Andrew, Mark Morgan, Duane Merrill, et al.. (2009). An Open Grid Services Architecture Primer. Computer. 42(2). 27–34. 20 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & Andrew Grimshaw. (2009). Profiles for conveying the secure communication requirements of Web services. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 21(8). 991–1011. 1 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & Kim Hazelwood. (2008). Trace fragment selection within method-based JVMs. 41–50. 11 indexed citations
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Merrill, Duane & J.S. Collofello. (2002). Improving software project management skills using a software project simulator. 3. 1361–1366. 8 indexed citations
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Collofello, J.S., et al.. (2002). Modeling software testing processes. 289–293. 10 indexed citations

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