Iain Duff

18.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Iain Duff is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Hardware and Architecture and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Iain Duff has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 42 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 37 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Iain Duff's work include Matrix Theory and Algorithms (84 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (41 papers) and Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (32 papers). Iain Duff is often cited by papers focused on Matrix Theory and Algorithms (84 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (41 papers) and Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research (32 papers). Iain Duff collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Iain Duff's co-authors include John Reid, Jacko Koster, Patrick Amestoy, Timothy A. Davis, Jack Dongarra, Jean-Yves L’Excellent, Sven Hammarling, Jeremy Du Croz, John G. Lewis and Roger G. Grimes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Mathematics of Computation and International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Iain Duff

136 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

A Fully Asynchronous Multifrontal Solver Using Dis... 1983 2026 1997 2011 2001 1990 1983 400 800 1.2k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Iain Duff United Kingdom 42 5.1k 2.5k 2.3k 2.1k 2.0k 141 10.1k
Timothy A. Davis United States 28 2.7k 0.5× 2.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 108 8.5k
James Demmel United States 59 6.8k 1.3× 2.8k 1.1× 4.8k 2.1× 2.6k 1.2× 2.9k 1.5× 289 17.8k
G. W. Stewart United States 45 4.8k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 706 0.3× 2.5k 1.2× 1.4k 0.7× 152 11.5k
Martin H. Schultz United States 26 4.1k 0.8× 5.0k 2.0× 829 0.4× 2.5k 1.2× 2.4k 1.2× 88 11.7k
C Moler United States 25 2.9k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 721 0.3× 1.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 60 11.5k
Alan D. George United States 36 2.6k 0.5× 930 0.4× 2.0k 0.8× 741 0.3× 2.2k 1.1× 343 7.5k
H.A. van der Vorst Netherlands 39 5.7k 1.1× 4.7k 1.9× 479 0.2× 2.9k 1.3× 1.9k 0.9× 88 11.8k
J. H. Wilkinson United Kingdom 37 5.9k 1.2× 1.7k 0.7× 392 0.2× 3.2k 1.5× 1.7k 0.8× 96 13.0k
Vipin Kumar United States 40 1.9k 0.4× 2.0k 0.8× 3.0k 1.3× 352 0.2× 3.7k 1.8× 137 12.3k
Tamara G. Kolda United States 36 2.0k 0.4× 2.8k 1.1× 927 0.4× 755 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 86 13.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Duff, Iain, et al.. (2018). Experiments with sparse Cholesky using a sequential task-flow implementation. Science and Technology Facilities Council. 2 indexed citations
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Bai, Zhong‐Zhi, Iain Duff, & Jun-Feng Yin. (2008). Numerical study on incomplete orthogonal factorization preconditioners. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 226(1). 22–41. 13 indexed citations
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Carpentieri, Bruno, et al.. (2004). An embedded iterative scheme in electromagnetism. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 977–984. 1 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain, et al.. (2004). Parallel preconditioners based on partitioning sparse matrices 1. 4 indexed citations
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Carpentieri, Bruno, et al.. (2002). Sparse Symmetric Preconditioners for Dense Linear Systems in Electromagnetism. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 2. 85569. 1 indexed citations
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Vorst, H.A. van der, Rob H. Bisseling, Iain Duff, & Bernard Philippe. (2001). Topic 11: Numerical Algorithms. 566–567.
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Duff, Iain. (1999). The Impact of High Performance Computing in the Solution of Linear Systems: Trends and Problems. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain. (1999). A brief bibliography of recent research and software for the parallel solution of large sparse linear equations. Bulletin - International Bull Evaluation Service/Interbull bulletin. 43. 1 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain & J. A. Scott. (1997). A Comparison of frontal software with other sparse direct solvers. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain & John Reid. (1995). MA47, a Fortran code for direct solution of indefinite sparse symmetric linear systems. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 34 indexed citations
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Arioli, Mario, et al.. (1995). A Parallel Scheduler for Block Iterative Solvers in Heterogeneous Computing Environments.. PPSC. 460–465. 2 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain, et al.. (1994). The Use of multiple fronts in Gaussian elimination. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 20 indexed citations
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Arioli, M., Tony F. Chan, Iain Duff, Nicholas I. M. Gould, & John Reid. (1993). Computing a search direction for large scale linearly constrained nonlinear optimization calculations. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 8 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain. (1993). The solution of augmented systems. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 11 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain, et al.. (1993). MA42 - A new frontal code for solving sparse unsymmetric systems. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 13 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain, et al.. (1991). Computing selected eigenvalues of sparse unsymmetric matrices using subspace iteration. 2 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain, et al.. (1991). An unsymmetric-pattern multifrontal method for sparse LU factorization. 7 indexed citations
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Duff, Iain. (1990). Parallel algorithm research at CERFACS. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 536–542.
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Duff, Iain. (1989). Parallel Computation at CERFACS. 66–67.
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Duff, Iain. (1989). The impact of parallelism on numerical methods. 255–263. 1 indexed citations

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