Gunther Reißig.
On the performance of minimum degree and minimum local fill heuristics in circuit simulation.
Techn. Rep., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. Chem. Eng., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., Feb 1, 2001.

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Abstract:
Data structures underlying local algorithms for obtaining pivoting orders for sparse symmetric matrices are reviewed together with their theoretical background. Recently proposed heuristics as well as improvements to them are discussed and their performance, mainly in terms of the resulting number of factorization operations, is compared with that of the Minimum Degree and the Minimum Local Fill algorithms. It is shown that a combination of Markowitz' algorithm with these symmetric methods applied to the unsymmetric matrices arising in circuit simulation yields orderings significantly better than those obtained from Markowitz' algorithm alone, in some cases at virtually no extra computational cost.

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