| 2018 | ICPP | Vectorized Parallel Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication in PETSc Using AVX-512. | Hong Zhang, Richard Tran Mills, Karl Rupp, Barry F. Smith |
| 2009 | SC | Enabling high-fidelity neutron transport simulations on petascale architectures. | Dinesh K. Kaushik, Micheal Smith, Allan B. Wollaber, Barry F. Smith, Andrew R. Siegel, Won Sik Yang |
| 2008 | HiPC | Improving the Performance of Tensor Matrix Vector Multiplication in Cumulative Reaction Probability Based Quantum Chemistry Codes. | Dinesh K. Kaushik, William Gropp, Michael Minkoff, Barry F. Smith |
| 2002 | ICCS | Making Automatic Differentiation Truly Automatic: Coupling PETSc with ADIC. | Paul D. Hovland, Boyana Norris, Barry F. Smith |
| 2000 | HiPC | Analyzing the Parallel Scalability of an Implicit Unstructured Mesh CFD Code. | William Gropp, Dinesh K. Kaushik, Barry F. Smith, David E. Keyes |
| 2000 | SC | Performance Modeling and Tuning of an Unstructured Mesh CFD Application. | William Gropp, Dinesh K. Kaushik, David E. Keyes, Barry F. Smith |
| 1999 | PDPTA | Infrastructure and Interfaces for Large-Scale Numerical Software. | Lori A. Freitag, William Gropp, Paul D. Hovland, Lois C. McInnes, Barry F. Smith |
| 1999 | SC | Achieving High Sustained Performance in an Unstructured Mesh CFD Application. | W. K. Anderson, William D. Gropp, Dinesh K. Kaushik, David E. Keyes, Barry F. Smith |