BLIS Retreat 2014

This (second) BLIS Retreat is an invitation-only workshop that brings together contributors to BLIS as well as those with a keen interest in the project. Last year's (first) BLIS Retreat was well-attended by participants from academia, industry, the government labs, and NSF. Organizing committee: Robert van de Geijn (UT-Austin) Franz Franchetti (CMU) Tim Mattson (Intel) Dates: September 25-26, 2014 Location: Gates-Dell Complex (GDC) , UT-Austin Workshop fee: none

Overview

The BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software (BLIS) is a framework for rapid instantiation of high-performance libraries with Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) functionality.

The framework is hosted from a Google Code project website. There, you will find a wiki describing system software requirements, how to obtain the software distribution, and how to configure and install a BLIS library.

Relevant papers

• BLIS: A Framework for Rapid Instantiation of BLAS Functionality
  Field G. Van Zee, Robert A. van de Geijn.
  ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (accepted)
  
  
• The BLIS Framework: Experiments in Portability
  Field G. Van Zee, Tyler Smith, Bryan Marker, Tze Meng Low, Robert A. van de Geijn, Francisco D. Igual, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Xianyi Zhang, Michael Kistler, Vernon Austel, John Gunnels, Lee Killough
  ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (In review)
  
  
• Anatomy of High-Performance Many-Threaded Matrix Multiplication <
  Tyler M. Smith, Robert van de Geijn, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Jeff R. Hammond, and Field G. Van Zee.
  International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2014. Accepted.
  
  
• Analytical Modeling is Enough for High Performance BLIS.
  Tze Meng Low, Francisco D. Igual, Tyler M. Smith, and Enrique S. Quintana-Orti.
  Submitted to ACM TOMS. (See also FLAWN 74.)