Combinatorial scientific computing: the enabling power of discrete algorithms in computational science

  • Authors:
  • Bruce Hendrickson;Alex Pothen

  • Affiliations:
  • Discrete Math &Algorithms Dept., Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM;Computer Science Department and Center for Computational Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

  • Venue:
  • VECPAR'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on High performance computing for computational science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Combinatorial algorithms have long played a crucial, albeit under-recognized role in scientific computing. This impact ranges well beyond the familiar applications of graph algorithms in sparse matrices to include mesh generation, optimization, computational biology and chemistry, data analysis and parallelization. Trends in science and in computing suggest strongly that the importance of discrete algorithms in computational science will continue to grow. This paper reviews some of these many past successes and highlights emerging areas of promise and opportunity.