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  • 2012 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to domain decomposition, developing the powerful software package PETSc, and simulating complex scientific and engineering phenomena on massively parallel architectures.

Overview

Barry Smith is affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on areas including Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Information Systems and Management, and Numerical Analysis.

Smith's work centers on topics such as Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Matrix Theory and Algorithms, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Numerical Methods for Differential Equations, and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics.

Frequent publication venues for Smith include arXiv (Cornell University), ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Parallel Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

Their recent published papers include:

  • A survey of numerical linear algebra methods utilizing mixed-precision arithmetic (2021), The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
  • Toward performance-portable PETSc for GPU-based exascale systems (2021), Parallel Computing
  • The PetscSF Scalable Communication Layer (2021), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Preparing sparse solvers for exascale computing (2020), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • PETSc TSAdjoint: A Discrete Adjoint ODE Solver for First-Order and Second-Order Sensitivity Analysis (2022), SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Smith collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Satish Balay, Junchao Zhang, Jed Brown, Matthew G. Knepley, and Todd Munson.

In 2012, Smith was recognized as a SIAM Fellow for contributions to domain decomposition, development of the PETSc software package, and simulation of complex scientific and engineering phenomena on massively parallel architectures.

Best Publications

  • PETSc Users Manual

    S Balay;S Abhyankar;M Adams;J Brown

  • Domain Decomposition Methods for Partial Differential Equations

    Barry F. Smith

  • Efficient management of parallelism in object-oriented numerical software libraries

    Satish Balay;William D. Gropp;Lois Curfman McInnes;Barry F. Smith

  • PETSc Users Manual Revision 3.7

    Satish Balay;S. Abhyankar;M. Adams;P. Brune

  • Domain Decomposition: Parallel Multilevel Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

    Barry F. Smith;Petter E. Bjørstad;William D. Gropp

  • PETSc 2.0 users manual

    Satish Balay;William D. Gropp;Lois Curfman McInnes;Barry F. Smith

  • Multiphysics simulations: Challenges and opportunities

    David E Keyes;Lois C Mcinnes;Carol Woodward;William Gropp

  • Schwarz analysis of iterative substructuring algorithms for elliptic problems in three dimensions

    Maksymilian Dryja;Barry F. Smith;Olof B. Widlund

  • High-performacne parallel implicit CFD

    William D. Gropp;Dinesh K. Kaushik;David E. Keyes;Barry F. Smith

  • Composing Scalable Nonlinear Algebraic Solvers

    Peter R. Brune;Matthew G. Knepley;Barry F. Smith;Xuemin Tu

  • PETSc/TS: A Modern Scalable ODE/DAE Solver Library

    Shrirang Abhyankar;Jed Brown;Emil M. Constantinescu;Debojyoti Ghosh

  • An energy-minimizing interpolation for robust multigrid methods

    W. L. Wan;Tony F. Chan;Barry Smith

  • Domain decomposition and multigrid algorithms for elliptic problems on unstructured meshes

    Tony F. Chan;Barry Smith

  • Achieving High Sustained Performance in an Unstructured Mesh CFD Application

    W. K. Anderson;W. D. Gropp;D. K. Kaushik;D. E. Keyes

  • Towards Realistic Performance Bounds for Implicit CFD Codes

    W. D. Gropp;D. K. Kaushik;D. E. Keyes;B. F. Smith

  • Overlapping Schwarz methods on unstructured meshes using non-matching coarse grids

    Tony F. Chan;Barry F. Smith;Jun Zou

  • A survey of numerical linear algebra methods utilizing mixed-precision arithmetic:

    Ahmad Abdelfattah;Hartwig Anzt;Hartwig Anzt;Erik G. Boman;Erin C. Carson

  • An Optimal Domain Decomposition Preconditioner for the Finite Element Solution of Linear Elasticity Problems

    Barry F. Smith

  • Domain decomposition algorithms for the partial differential equations of linear elasticity

    Olof Widlund;Barry F. Smith

  • Chameleon parallel programming tools users manual

    William D. Gropp;Barry F. Smith

  • Large-scale DES computations of the forward speed diffraction and pitch and heave problems for a surface combatant

    P.M. Carrica;J. Huang;R. Noack;D. Kaushik

  • petsc: Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation

    Barry Smith;stefanozampini;tisaac;SurtaiHan

  • A domain decomposition algorithm for elliptic problems in three dimensions

    Barry F. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

William Gropp
William Gropp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David E. Keyes
David E. Keyes King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Xiaoye S. Li
Xiaoye S. Li Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael A. Heroux
Michael A. Heroux Sandia National Laboratories
Tony F. Chan
Tony F. Chan University of California, Los Angeles
Olof B. Widlund
Olof B. Widlund Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Garth N. Wells
Garth N. Wells University of Cambridge
Nicholas J. Higham
Nicholas J. Higham University of Manchester
Juan J. de Pablo
Juan J. de Pablo New York University

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