ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software articles from June 2000

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software archives from June 2000

Editorial: Special Issue in Honor of John Rice's 65th Birthday.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 1, 2000... This special issue of TOMS forms part of the proceedings of a symposium held May 22-26, 1999, at West Lafayette, Indiana, to honor John R. Rice for his many contributions to the field of computational science, as well as to computer sciences...

JOHN R. RICE Biographical and Professional Notes.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... John R. Rice was born in Tulsa, OK on June 6, 1934. He lived in several small Oklahoma towns and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia before entering Oklahoma State University in 1951. He studied mathematics there (B.S. 1954, M.S. 1956) and then at the...

PYTHIA-II: A Knowledge/Database System for Managing Performance Data and Recommending Scientific Software.
June 1, 2000... 1. INTRODUCTION Complex scientific, engineering, or societal problems are often solved today by utilizing libraries or some form of problem-solving environments (PSEs). Most software modules are characterized by a significant number of...

Mining and Visualizing Recommendation Spaces for Elliptic PDEs with Continuous Attributes.
June 1, 2000... 1. INTRODUCTION The algorithm selection problem was first seriously formulated and analyzed by John R. Rice nearly 25 years ago [Rice 1976]. Having posed the problem of selecting a good method for a particular problem instance as a...

Accurate Approximate Solution of Partial Differential Equations at Off-Mesh Points.
June 1, 2000... 1. INTRODUCTION In many areas of science and engineering one models phenomena of interest by systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). In most applications, one can assume the existence of an isolated solution, u, to the...

How to Vectorize the Algebraic Multilevel Iteration.
June 1, 2000... 1. INTRODUCTION Vector computers [Schonauer 1987] are widely used in scientific computing. The main reason is the fact that well-known objects of the linear algebra, like vectors and matrices, provide the best data structures to meet the...

Algorithm 803: A Simpler Macro Processor.
June 1, 2000... 1. INTRODUCTION Macro processors (MPs) have been recognized as useful tools since the late 1950's [Greenwald 1959]. Before the widespread use of high-level programming languages, MPs were indispensable aids provided by many assemblers...