HYPERGRAPH MODELS FOR SPARSE MATRIX PARTITIONING AND REORDERING Umit V. C ataly urek Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Information Science Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Cevdet Aykanat November, 1999 Graphs have been widely used to represent sparse matrices for various scienti c applications including one-dimensional (1D) decomposition of sparse matrices for parallel sparse-matrix vector multiplic...