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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

    Marian Brezina (Dr.)

  2. Department of Scalable Algorithms, Sandia National Laboratories, Mail Stop 9159, P.O. Box 969, 94551-0969, Livermore, CA, USA

    Jonathan Hu (Dr.) & Ray Tuminaro (Dr.)

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Brezina, M., Hu, J., Tuminaro, R. (2011). Algebraic Multigrid. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_498

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