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The course does not follow any standard textbook. Most of the material stems from the open literature. Nevertheless, the following references are recommended in general. Parallel Computing V. Kumar, A. Grama, A. Gupta, and G. Karypis. Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis of Algorithms. Second edition. Addison Wesley, Harlow, 2003. D. P. Bertsekas and J. N. Tsitsiklis. Parallel and Distributed Computation. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1989. Iterative Methods for Linear Systems For symmetric systems see: B. Fischer. Polynomial Based Iteration Methods for Symmetric Linear Systems. Wiley-Teubner, Chichester, 1996. For nonsymmetric systems see: Y. Saad. Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems. PWS Publishing Company, Boston, 1996. (Revised manuscript available.) Second edition, SIAM. R.W. Freund, G.H. Golub, and N.M. Nachtigal. Iterative Solution of Linear Systems. In Acta Numerica 1992, pages 1-44, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. M.H. Gutknecht. Lanczos-Type Solvers for Nonsymmetric Linear Systems of Equations. In Acta Numerica 1997, pages 271-397, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. A. Greenbaum. Iterative Methods for Solving Linear Systems. SIAM, Philadelphia, 1997. H. van der Vorst. Iterative Krylov Methods for Large Linear Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2003. G. Meurant. Computer Solution of Large Linear Systems. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1999.