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<h3><b> The Zoltan Team </b></h3>
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<b> Sandia National Laboratories</b><br>
Erik Boman<br>
<a href="https://www.sandia.gov/~kddevin">Karen Devine</a><br>
Vitus Leung<br>
Sivasankaran Rajamanickam<br>
Michael Wolf <br>
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<b> Georgia Tech</b><br>
<a href="https://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/umit-v-catalyurek">Umit Catalyurek</a><br>
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<h3><b> Past Zoltan Contributors</b></h3>
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<b> Sandia National Laboratories: </b><br>
Cédric Chevalier (currently at CEA, DAM) <br>
Robert Heaphy<br>
Bruce Hendrickson <br>
Matthew St. John<br>
Lee Ann Riesen<br>
Courtenay Vaughan<br>
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<b> Siena College</b><br>
<a href="https://www.siena.edu/faculty-and-staff/person/jim-teresco">James Teresco</a><br>
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<b> National Institute of Standards and Technology</b><br>
<a href="https://math.nist.gov/~mitchell">William F. Mitchell</a><br>
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<b> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</b><br>
Jamal Faik<br>
Luis Gervasio<br>
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<b> Google (formerly Ohio State University)</b><br>
Doruk Bozdag<br>
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<b> Tutorials:</b><br>
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<li>
<b>"Getting Started with Zoltan: A Short Tutorial."</b><br>
A ten-page introduction to using Zoltan is now available. Download it here:<br>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/papers/Dagstuhl09.pdf">PDF</a>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/citations/Dagstuhl09.txt">Citation</a> (BIBTEX)
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/papers/zoltan_tutorial_dagstuhl09.pdf">Viewgraphs</a> from the tutorial (PDF)
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The Zoltan Tutorial presented at the 2010 ACTS Workshop is available here.
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/papers/acts2010.pdf">Zoltan Tutorial Slides from ACTS 2010</a> (PDF)
</li>
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<li>
The Zoltan Tutorial presented at SciDAC2007 is now on-line. Download it here:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/papers/Zoltan_Tutorial_Slides.pdf">Zoltan Tutorial Slides</a> (14 Mbytes; PDF)
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/papers/Zoltan_Tutorial_Handouts.pdf">Zoltan Tutorial Handouts</a> (Four slides per page; 8.8 Mbytes; PDF)
</li>
<p>
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<li>
User's Guide (<a href="ug_html/ug.html">HTML</a>)
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<b> Zoltan News:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#ZOLTAN383">Zoltan v3.83</a>
was released in January 2016 as part of Trilinos v12.6.
This release includes only minor software changes.
See more details <a href="#ZOLTAN383">below</a>.
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="#ZOLTAN382">Zoltan v3.82</a>
was released in May 2015 as part of Trilinos v12.
This release includes only minor software changes.
See more details <a href="#ZOLTAN382">below</a>.
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="#ZOLTAN381">Zoltan v3.81</a>
was released in November 2014 as part of Trilinos v11.12.
This release upgrades Zoltan's interface to ParMETIS v4 and Scotch v6.
See more details <a href="#ZOLTAN381">below</a>.
<br><br>
<li>
<a href="#ZOLTAN38">Zoltan v3.8</a>
was released in October 2013 as part of Trilinos v10.11.
This release uses Trilinos' BSD license! See more details <a href="#ZOLTAN38">below</a>.
<br><br>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#ZOLTAN36">Zoltan v3.6</a>
was released in September 2011 as part of Trilinos v10.8.
This release includes new recoloring capability in Zoltan's <a href="ug_html/ug_color.html">coloring</a> algorithms.
Zoltan's hierarchical partitioning algorithm was
also updated for greater efficiency.
We have updated our third-party library support to include
PT-Scotch versions up to 5.1.12 and ParMETIS v3.1 and v4.0.
<br><br>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#ZOLTAN35">Zoltan v3.5</a> was released in March 2011. This release
differs from the Trilinos 10.6 release by including the following features:
<ul>
<li>
Fix in Fortran90 interface that causes compilation and run-time problems
with gcc 4.5 and later when compiler optimization is enabled.
</li>
<li>
Support for 64-bit builds of Zoltan, enabling operation on more than 2B objects.
See details for building in the <a href="ug_html/ug_usage.html">Zoltan User's Guide</a>.
</li>
<li>
Faster graph builds for very specific input types. See parameter
<a href="ug_html/ug_graph_build.html">GRAPH_BUILD_TYPE</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<br><br>
</li>
<li>
The Zoltan team received the "Best Algorithms Paper Award" at the
<a href="https://www.ipdps.org">2007 International Parallel and Distributed
Processing Symposium (IPDPS07)</a>
for their paper
"Hypergraph-based Dynamic Load Balancing for Adaptive Scientific Computations."
<br>
<A HREF="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/abstracts/Catalyurek_IPDPS07.html">Abstract</A> (HTML)
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/papers/Catalyurek_IPDPS07.pdf">Paper</a> (PDF)
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/citations/Catalyurek_IPDPS07.txt">Citation</a> (BIBTEX)
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<li>
Zoltan was part of several funded <a href="https://www.scidac.org">DOE SciDAC</a> projects:
<ul>
<li>
SciDAC2 CSCAPES: Combinatorial Scientific Computing
and Petascale Simulations <br>
Contact: Erik Boman
</li>
<li>
SciDAC2 ITAPS: Interoperable
Technologies for Advanced Petascale Simulations<br>
Contact: Karen Devine<br>
</li>
<li>
SciDAC3 to SciDAC5: <a href="https://fastmath-scidac.llnl.gov/">FASTMath: Frameworks, algorithms and scalable technologies</a>
for mathematics
<br>
Contact: Karen Devine<br>
</li>
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<b>Now available: Zoltan 3.83</b> <br>
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<a NAME="ZOLTAN383"></a>
New Features in Zoltan v3.83, released January 2016.
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
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<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<ul>
<li> Autotools files updated to avoid deprecated perl features </li>
<li> Added Zoltan_Get_Fn interface to return pointers to registered callback
functions.</li>
<li> Several bug fixes in Fortran90 interface </li>
<li> Subtle rounding error fixed in PHG hypergraph partitioner </li>
<li> Minor changes to distributed data directory to track number of nodes
per processor; include file DD.h is now named zoltan_dd_const.h </li>
</ul>
<p>
<a NAME="ZOLTAN382"></a>
New Features in Zoltan v3.82, released May 2015.
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
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<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<ul>
<li> Minor code changes to remove compiler warnings and handle error conditions </li>
<li> Enable "make -j" in autotools build of Zoltan's F90 interface. </li>
</ul>
<p>
<a NAME="ZOLTAN381"></a>
New Features in Zoltan v3.81, released November 2014:
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
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<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<ul>
<li> Better integration of ParMETIS v4, METIS v5, and Scotch v6. </li>
<li> Better handling of interface differences between MPI versions 1 and 2. </li>
<li> Bug fix in siMPI for non-MPI builds. </li>
<li> Minor bugfixes. </li>
</ul>
<p>
<a NAME="ZOLTAN38"></a>
New Features in Zoltan v3.8, released October 2013:
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
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<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<ul>
<li> Zoltan is now released under Trilinos' BSD license. </li>
<li> Added an improved hash function that speeds lookups,
particularly for apps using partitioning parameter RETURN_LISTS=PARTS. </li>
<li> Added fixes for integer overflows that occur when A and B are valid
integers, but A*B overflows an integer.
<li> Removed support for OCT partitioning; use HSFC partitioning for similar decompositions. </li>
<li> Removed support for third-party library DRUM. </li>
<li> Removed support for the Zoltan v1.x interface. </li>
</ul>
<p>
<a NAME="ZOLTAN36"></a>
New Features in Zoltan v3.6, released September 2011:
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
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<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<ul>
<li>
Recoloring capability in Zoltan's <a href="ug_html/ug_color.html">coloring algorithms</a>, obtaining colorings
with fewer colors.
</li>
<li>
Support for graph partitioning and ordering with PT-Scotch up to version 5.1.12.
</li>
<li>
Support for graph partitioning and ordering with ParMETIS v3.1 and v4.0.
</li>
<li>
Improved hierarchical partitioning performance.
</li>
<li>
Deprecation of OCT methods and interface defined in lbi_const.h. See the
<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">backward compatibility notes</a> for more
info.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<a NAME="ZOLTAN35"></a>
New Features in Zoltan v3.5, released March 2011:
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
|
<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<ul>
<li>
Fix in Fortran90 interface that causes compilation and run-time problems
with gcc 4.5 and later when compiler optimization is enabled.
</li>
<li>
Support for 64-bit builds of Zoltan, enabling operation on more than 2B objects.
See details for building in the <a href="ug_html/ug_usage.html">Zoltan User's Guide</a>.
</li>
<li>
Faster graph builds for very specific input types. See parameter
<a href="ug_html/ug_graph_build.html">GRAPH_BUILD_TYPE</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
<a NAME="ZOLTAN33"></a>
New Features in Zoltan v3.3, released July 2010:
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
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<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<ul>
<li>
New <a href="ug_html/ug_order_local_hsfc.html">local ordering method based on
space-filling curves</a> to improve
memory and cache locality within a processor.
</li>
<li>
Ability to call graph partitioning algorithms using hypergraph callback
functions; this capability is useful applications with, say, block-structured
matrix distributions (e.g., SuperLU), where all information about a matrix
row or column is not available on a single processor.
</li>
<li>
Improved execution time of parallel hypergraph partitioning.
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<p>
New Features in Zoltan v3.2, released September 2009:
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
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<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<ul>
<li>
New <a href="ug_html/ug_alg_ptscotch.html">interface</a>
to <a href="https://www.labri.fr/perso/pelegrin/scotch/">
Scotch and PT-Scotch</a> parallel graph partitioning
algorithms.
</li>
<li>
Simplified interface to graph <a href="ug_html/ug_interface_order.html">ordering</a>
and <a href="ug_html/ug_interface_color.html">coloring</a> algorithms
</li>
<li>
Automated symmetrization of graphs for graph partitioning, coloring
and ordering.
(See parameters GRAPH_SYMMETRIZE and GRAPH_SYM_WEIGHT in the
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_ptscotch.html">Scotch</a> and
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_parmetis.html">ParMETIS</a> graph packages.)
</li>
<li>
Improved function
<a href="ug_html/ug_interface_lb.html#Zoltan_LB_Eval"><b>Zoltan_LB_Eval</b></a>
returns more information about a decomposition to users.
</li>
<li>
Improved examples showing Zoltan usage in C and C++
are included in <i>zoltan/example</i>.
</li>
<li>
Improved support for <a href="ug_html/ug_usage.html#Autotools">builds under autotools</a>,
including builds of Zoltan's F90 interface.
</li>
<li>
New support for <a href="ug_html/ug_usage.html#CMake">CMake builds</a>
and testing through Trilinos; builds of
Zoltan's F90 interface are included.
</li>
<li>
Improved integration into
<a href="https://trilinos.sandia.gov/packages/isorropia/">Isorropia</a>
partitioners for Trilinos' Epetra classes.
</li>
</ul>
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New Features in Zoltan v3.1, released September 2008:
<ul>
<li>
Graph/Matrix ordering interface to
<a href="ug_html/ug_order_ptscotch.html">PT-Scotch</a>, a
high-quality graph ordering and partitioning library from LaBRI/INRIA-Bordeaux.
<li>
New <a href="ug_html/ug_interface_order.html">matrix ordering interface</a>
that returns ordering information such as permutations and
separators to the application.
<li>
New <a href="ug_html/ug_alg_phg.html">hypergraph partitioning</a>
options for inexpensively
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg.html#LB_APPROACH">refining</a> partitions.
<li>
Robustness improvements to Zoltan's parallel
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_hypergraph.html">hypergraph</a>
partitioner and repartitioner.
<li>
New <a href="ug_html/ug_usage.html#TrilinosAutotools">Autotools
build environment</a>.
<li>
Tight integration with the <a href="https://trilinos.sandia.gov">Trilinos</a>
project, including Trilinos package
<a href="https://trilinos.sandia.gov/packages/isorropia/">Isorropia</a>,
a matrix-based interface to Zoltan.
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_usage.html#TrilinosAutotools">Serial, non-MPI builds</a> are now available.
</ul>
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New Features in Zoltan 3.0, released May 2007:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/papers/Catalyurek_IPDPS07.pdf">Parallel
Hypergraph Repartitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing</a> to partition data while
accounting for current processor assignments, thus reducing the amount of data
migration needed; see the Zoltan User's Guide for
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_hypergraph.html">details</a>.
<li>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/Zoltan/papers/wiley_chapter.pdf">Hypergraph refinement</a> to quickly
improve the quality of an existing partition.
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_hypergraph.html">Hypergraph Partitioning and Repartitioning with Fixed Vertices</a> allows users to
specify the partition assignment of objects.
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_graph.html">Native graph partitioning</a> using Zoltan's hypergraph partitioner.
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_hier.html">Hierarchical partitioning</a> for hybrid partitions on heterogeneous computers.
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg.html#REMAP">Improved part remapping</a>
to reduce data migration costs.
<li>
Simple <a href="ug_html/ug_alg_block.html">block</a> and
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_random.html">random</a> partitioners for
demonstration and testing.
</ul>
<p>
New Features in Zoltan 2:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://software.sandia.gov/Zoltan/IPDPS06_Final.pdf">Parallel Hypergraph Partitioning</a>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_color.html">Distance-1 and Distance-2 graph coloring</a>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_rcb.html">Multicriteria Geometric Partitioning</a>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_cpp.html">C++ Interface</a>
</ul>
See the
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">release notes</a> for descriptions
of new functionality and more.
<ul>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_release.html">Release Notes</a>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_backward.html">Backward Compatibility</a>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/sandialabs/Zoltan/releases">Download Now!</a>
</ul>
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The <b>Zoltan Library</b> provides critical data-management services
to a wide range of parallel applications. Zoltan includes many utilities
needed by unstructured and/or adaptive parallel applications. These utilities
include
<ul>
<li>
a suite of <a href="ug_html/ug_alg.html"><b>dynamic load-balancing and
parallel partitioning tools</b></a> that
distribute data over sets of processors,
</li>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_interface_mig.html"><b>data migration tools</b></a> that simplify movement of data to new parts,
</li>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_interface_order.html"><b>
parallel graph/matrix ordering algorithms</b></a> for fill-reducing matrix
ordering, including interfaces to PT-Scotch (LaBRI/INRIA-Bordeaux) and
ParMETIS (U. Minnesota),
</li>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_color.html"><b>parallel graph coloring</b></a> including
distance-1 and distance-2 coloring,
</li>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_util_dd.html"><b>distributed data directories</b></a>
that efficiently locate off-processor data,
</li>
<li>
an <a href="ug_html/ug_util_comm.html"><b>unstructured communication
package</b></a> that greatly simplifies interprocessor
communication, and
</li>
<li>
a <a href="ug_html/ug_util_mem.html"><b>dynamic memory debugging
package</b></a> for memory-debugging
on state-of-the-art parallel computers.
</li>
</ul>
Zoltan's object-oriented interface is easy-to-use and enables
Zoltan to be used by a number of different applications. Zoltan is
designed to be flexible and extensible, so different algorithms can be
used, compared and added easily.
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<p><b>Why Zoltan is needed:</b>
<ul>
<li>
In some applications, work loads and/or geometric locality change as computations
proceed;<br> Zoltan provides <b>dynamic redistribution of data</b> to maintain high
performance. </li>
<ul>
<li>
Adaptive finite element methods</li>
<li>
Particle methods</li>
<li>
Contact detection algorithms</li>
<li>
Multiphysics simulations</li>
<li>
Adaptive physics models</li>
</ul>
<li>
Processors need to <b>track off-processor data's locations</b> in dynamic
environments; Zoltan's distributed data directories allow applications to
efficiently query and update off-processor data locations.
</li>
<li>
Unstructured and adaptive applications require <b>complicated interprocessor
communication</b>; Zoltan's unstructured communication package
manages sends and receives for application developers.
</li>
<li>
State-of-the-art parallel computers often do not have sophisticated
<b>debugging</b>
tools available; Zoltan's dynamic memory management package simplifies
location of memory leaks and other memory errors.
</li>
</ul>
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<b>Advantages of using Zoltan in applications:</b>
<ul>
<li>
Zoltan's <a href="ug_html/ug_interface.html">object-oriented interface</a>
is clean and easy to use in applications.</li>
<li>
A <a href="ug_html/ug_alg.html">suite of load-balancing algorithms</a>
is included in Zoltan;
<br>try them all to see what works best in your application.</li>
<li>
<a href="ug_html/ug_alg_parmetis.html">Interfaces</a> to the popular
<a href="https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/parmetis/">ParMETIS</a>
and <a href="https://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/jostle/">Jostle</a> packages are included.</li>
<li>
Application development time can be reduced by using Zoltan's
parallel utilities for
<a href="ug_html/ug_util_comm.html">unstructured communication</a>,
<a href="ug_html/ug_util_mem.html">dynamic memory management</a>,
<a href="ug_html/ug_interface_mig.html">data migration</a>,
and <a href="ug_html/ug_util_dd.html">distributed data directories</a>.
</li>
</ul>
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<b>Advantages of using Zoltan for developing new algorithms:</b>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="dev_html/dev_add.html">New algorithms can be added</a> to Zoltan
in a straightforward manner.</li>
<li>
Zoltan's <a href="ug_html/ug_query.html">object-based interface</a>
provides a simple, general way to get needed application data to the algorithms.</li>
<li>
New algorithms can be compared to high-quality
implementations of <a href="ug_html/ug_alg.html">existing algorithms</a>.</li>
<li>
Zoltan's <a href="Zoltan_phil.html#ZDesign">data-structure neutral design</a>
allows new algorithms to be used easily in many different applications.</li>
</ul>
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<b>Zoltan <a href="Zoltan_phil.html">philosophy</a> and project description:</b>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="Zoltan_phil.html#Overview">Overview</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="Zoltan_phil.html#Design">Design Considerations</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="Zoltan_phil.html#Typical">Dynamic Load-Balancing and Data Migration Tools</a
</li>
<li>
<a href="Zoltan_phil.html#UComm">Communication Tools</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="Zoltan_phil.html#MemTools">Memory Management Tools</a></li>
</li>
</ul>
<b>Related links:</b>
<ul>
<li>
Publications</li>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="Zoltan_pubs.html">Papers and Presentations</a></li>
</ul>
<li>
Serial hypergraph partitioners</li>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~umit/software.html">PaToH</a>
(Georgia Tech)
<li>
<a href="https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~bisse101/Mondriaan/">Mondriaan</a>
(Utrecht University)
<li>
<a href="https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/hmetis/">hMetis</a>
(University of Minnesota)
</ul>
<li>
Parallel hypergraph partitioners</li>
<ul>
<li>
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</ul>
<li>
Parallel and dynamic partitioners</li>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis/parmetis/">ParMETIS</a>
(University of Minnesota)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/jostle/">Jostle </a>(University of Greenwich)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.ccrl-nece.de/DRAMA/papers/proceedings/europar99.pdf">DRAMA</a> (ESPRIT IV)</li>
</ul>
<li>
Serial graph partitioners</li>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/~bahendr/chaco.html">Chaco</a> (Sandia National Laboratories)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~karypis/metis">METIS</a> (University
of Minnesota)</li>
<li>
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(University of Paderborn)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.labri.fr/Perso/~pelegrin/scotch/">SCOTCH</a>
(Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Université
Bordeaux I)</li>
</ul>
<li>
Sandia National Laboratories</li>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov">Sandia's Computation, Computers and
Math Center</a></li>
<li>
<a href="http://cs.sandia.gov/CSRI">Sandia's Computer Science Research
Institute</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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