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Overview

David W. Walker is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research has contributed to various areas in computing, with a focus on distributed systems, scientific computing, and computational physics applications.

Their recent publications include:

  • "CPC's 50th Anniversary: Celebrating 50 years of open-source software in computational physics," 2020, Computer Physics Communications
  • "Issue Information," 2021, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience
  • "Issue Information," 2021, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience
  • "Issue Information," 2021, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience
  • "Issue Information," 2021, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience

The primary publication venues where Walker's work appears include:

  • Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience
  • Computer Physics Communications

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Jinjun Chen
  • Martin Berzins
  • Nitin Auluck
  • Tony Hey
  • Geoffrey Fox

David W. Walker's research encompasses several subfields:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems

The main topics they explore include:

  • Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Computational Physics and Python Applications
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management

Best Publications

  • ScaLAPACK Users' Guide

    L. S. Blackford;J. Choi;A. Cleary;E. D'Azevedo

  • ScaLAPACK user's guide

    L. S. Blackford;J. Choi;A. Cleary;E. D'Azeuedo

  • MPI: The Complete Reference

    Marc Snir;Steve W. Otto;David W. Walker;Jack Dongarra

  • The Perfect Club Benchmarks: Effective Performance Evaluation of Supercomputers

    M. Berry;D. Chen;P. Koss;D. Kuck

  • Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) catalogs and atlases

    C. A. Beichman;George Helou;D. W. Walker

  • ScaLAPACK: a scalable linear algebra library for distributed memory concurrent computers

    J. Choi;J.J. Dongarra;R. Pozo;D.W. Walker

  • UDDIe: an extended registry for Web services

    A. ShaikhAli;O.F. Rana;R. Al-Ali;D.W. Walker

  • MPI - The Complete Reference: Volume 1, The MPI Core

    Marc Snir;Marc Snir;Steve Otto;Steven Huss-Lederman;David Walker

  • Chebyshev tau-QZ algorithm methods for calculating spectra of hydrodynamic stability problems

    J. J. Dongarra;J. J. Dongarra;B. Straughan;D. W. Walker

  • Design and Implementation of the ScaLAPACK LU, QR, and Cholesky Factorization Routines

    Jaeyoung Choi;Jack J. Dongarra;L. Susan Ostrouchov;Antoine P. Petitet

  • ScaLAPACK: A Portable Linear Algebra Library for Distributed Memory Computers - Design Issues and Performance

    Laura Susan Blackford;J. Choi;A. Cleary;A. Petitet

  • A Proposal for a Set of Parallel Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms

    Jaeyoung Choi;Jack Dongarra;Jack Dongarra;Susan Ostrouchov;Antoine Petitet

  • The design of a standard message passing interface for distributed memory concurrent computers

    David W. Walker

  • G-QOSM: Grid Service Discovery Using QoS Properties

    Rashid J. Al-Ali;Rashid J. Al-Ali;Rashid J. Al-Ali;Omer Farooq Rana;David William Walker;Sanjay Jha

  • Pumma: Parallel universal matrix multiplication algorithms on distributed memory concurrent computers

    Jaeyoung Choi;David W. Walker;Jack J. Dongarra

  • A message passing standard for MPP and workstations

    Jack J. Dongarra;Steve W. Otto;Marc Snir;David Walker

  • Software libraries for linear algebra computations on high performance computers

    Jack J. Dongarra;David W. Walker

  • Solving problems on concurrent processors. Vol. 1: General techniques and regular problems

    Geoffrey C. Fox;Mark A. Johnson;Gregory A. Lyzenga;Steve W. Otto

  • An Introduction to the MPI Standard

    Jack J. Dongarra;Steve W. Otto;Marc Snir;David Walker

  • LAPACK++: A design overview of object-oriented extensions for high performance linear algebra

    J.J. Dongarra;R. Pozo;D.W. Walker

  • Solving problems on concurrent processors: vol. 2

    Ian G. Angus;Geoffrey C. Fox;Jai Sam Kim;David W. Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Omer F. Rana
Omer F. Rana Cardiff University
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Geoffrey C. Fox
Geoffrey C. Fox University of Virginia
George Helou
George Helou California Institute of Technology
Gregor von Laszewski
Gregor von Laszewski University of Virginia
Marc Snir
Marc Snir University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abdelhakim Hafid
Abdelhakim Hafid University of Montreal
Carl Kesselman
Carl Kesselman University of Southern California
James Demmel
James Demmel University of California, Berkeley
Inderjit S. Dhillon
Inderjit S. Dhillon Google (United States)

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