MODERN CONCEPTS FOR HIGH-PERFOMANCE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING - Library Centric Application Design

René Heinzl, Philipp Schwaha, Siegfried Selberherr

2007

Abstract

During the last decades various high-performance libraries were developed written in fairly low level languages, like FORTRAN, carefully specializing codes to achieve the best performance. However, the objective to achieve reusable components has been regularly eluded by the software community ever since. The fundamental goal of our approach is to create a high-performance mathematical framework with reusable domain-specific abstractions which are close to the mathematical notations to describe many problems in scientific computing. Interoperability driven by strong theoretical derivations of mathematical concepts is another important goal of our approach.

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Heinzl R., Schwaha P. and Selberherr S. (2007). MODERN CONCEPTS FOR HIGH-PERFOMANCE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING - Library Centric Application Design . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-06-7, pages 100-107. DOI: 10.5220/0001327401000107


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@conference{icsoft07,
author={René Heinzl and Philipp Schwaha and Siegfried Selberherr},
title={MODERN CONCEPTS FOR HIGH-PERFOMANCE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING - Library Centric Application Design},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={100-107},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001327401000107},
isbn={978-989-8111-06-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - MODERN CONCEPTS FOR HIGH-PERFOMANCE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING - Library Centric Application Design
SN - 978-989-8111-06-7
AU - Heinzl R.
AU - Schwaha P.
AU - Selberherr S.
PY - 2007
SP - 100
EP - 107
DO - 10.5220/0001327401000107