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\title{Communication Performance of Irregular Applications and\\
the Implications for Graph Partitioners\\
(extended abstract) 
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\author{David R. O'Hallaron and Jonathan Richard Shewchuk\\
\\
School of Computer Science\\
Carnegie Mellon University\\
Pittsburgh, PA 15213\\
}
\date{}

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\unmarkedfootnote{
This research was sponsored in part by the Advanced Research Projects
Agency/CSTO monitored by SPAWAR under contract N00039-93-C-0152, 
in part by the National Science Foundation under
Grant CMS-9318163, and in part by a grant from the Intel Corporation.
The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the
authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official
policies, either express or implied, of the U.S. government.
}

\begin{abstract}
abstract goes here.
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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:conclusions}

\appendix
\section{Error bound}


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