The following books and papers provide additional information for the sparse BLAS and sparse solver routines.
D.S. Dodson, R.G. Grimes, and J.G. Lewis, Sparse Extensions to the Fortran Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, June 1991, Vol 17, No. 2.
A. George and J. W-H. Liu, Computer Solution of Large Sparse Positive Definite Systems, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1981.
E. Ng and B. W. Peyton, Block Sparse Cholesky Algorithms on Advanced Uniprocessor Computers, SIAM M. Sci Comput., 14:1034-1056, 1993.
Ian S. Duff, Roger G. Grimes and John G. Lewis, User's Guide for the Harwell-Boeing Sparse Matrix Collection (Release I), Technical Report TR/PA/92/86, CERFACS, Lyon, France, October 1992.
J. W. Demmel, J. R. Gilbert, and X. S. Li, SuperLU User's Guide, Technical report LBNL-44289.
X. S. Li, An Overview of SuperLU: Algorithms, Implementation, and User Interface, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 2004.
7. J. W. Demmel, S. C. Eisenstat, J. R. Gilbert, X. S. Li, J. W. H. Liu, A supernodal approach to sparse partial pivoting, SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol 20, No. 3, 1999, pp. 720-755.