Iain S. Duff

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Iain S. Duff is a British mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in numerical methods and software for solving problem with sparse matrices, in particular the Harwell Subroutine Library. Since 1986, he was the Group Leader of Numerical Analysis at Harwell Laboratory, which has moved in 1990 to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is also the Project Leader for the Parallel Algorithms Group at CERFACS in Toulouse.

[edit] See also

• MUMPS
• Multifrontal method

[edit] External links

• home page
• HSL, formerly the Harwell Subroutine Library
• Harwell-Boeing sparse matrix collection at Matrix Market
• Oral History interview with Duff by Thomas Haigh. Full text online as part of SIAM history project, covers his entire career.