Acknowledgments

The authors and editors gratefully acknowledge the valuable contributions of the following individuals, organizations and programs.

These organizations and programs provided grants, graduate fellowships, other funding, and resources.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Sandia National Laboratories

IBM Shared University Research Program

Sun Microsystems

Intel

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Swedish Research Councils for natural science (NFR) and engineering science (TFR)

Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Goeteborg

Netherlands organization for scientific research NWO, priority program MPR

The information presented here does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the funding agencies and no official endorsement should be inferred.

The authors and editors wish to thank the following individuals.

Victor Eijkhout

Erik Elmroth

Zhongxiao Jia

P. Johansson

Beresford N. Parlett

Steve Smith

Hongguo Xu

Qiang Ye

The authors and editors are grateful to the SIAM staff for their great job of production, and particularly wish to thank:

Vickie Kearn

Deborah Poulson

Kelly Thomas

Marianne Will