Iain S. Duff is a British mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in numerical methods and software for solving problem with sparse matrices, in particular the Harwell Subroutine Library. From 1986 to 2009 he was the Group Leader of Numerical Analysis at Harwell Laboratory, which moved in 1990 to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is also the Project Leader for the Parallel Algorithms Group at in Toulouse.
See also MUMPS Multifrontal method
External links
Iain S. Duff home page HSL, formerly the Harwell Subroutine Library Harwell-Boeing sparse matrix collection at Matrix Market Oral History interview with Duff by Thomas Haigh. Full text online as part of SIAM history project, covers his entire career.