This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, LSSC 2007, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in June 2007. The 81 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on robust multilevel and hierarchical preconditioning methods; monte carlo: tools, applications, distributed computing; operator splittings, their application and realization; recent advances in methods and applications for large scale computations and optimization of coupled engineering problems; control systems; environmental modelling; computational grid and large-scale problems; application of metaheuristics to large-scale problems; and contributed talks.

Abstract: "In LAPACK there are two types of subroutines for solving problems with symmetric matrices: routines for full and packed storage. The performance of full format is much better as it allows the usage of Level 2 and 3 BLAS whereas the memory requirement of the packed format is about 50% of full. We propose a new storage layout which combines the advantages of both algorithms: its factorization performance is better than that of full storage layout, and its memory requirement is percentage-wise slightly larger than packed storage. Our new algorithms, called DBSSV, DBSTRF, and DBSTRS are now part of ESSL[9]. On three recent IBM RS/6000 platforms, Power3, Power2 and PowerPC 604e DBSTRF outperforms LAPACK's DSYTRF by about 20%, and DBSTRS, with 100 RHS, outperforms LAPACK's DSYTRS by more than 100%. These performance results are decidedly unfair to our new algorithms: we compare against Level 3 algorithms as opposed to Level 2 packed algorithms."