GUIDE: Parallel library-centric application design by a generic scientific simulation environment

Abstract

Techniques for library-centric application design have already proven to be very useful in the past. The current gain in computer performance is shifted towards the utilisation of multi-core processors which extends the importance of this type of application design in the field of scientific computing, which also poses new difficulties. A parallel generic scientific simulation environment has been developed to ease this transition from single-core to multi-core systems without additional development activity.

Keywords:

• parallel library centric application design
• parallel computing
• generic environment
• generic programming
• high performance programming
• scientific computing

Acknowledgement

This work has been supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, project P19532-N13, and the Intel Corporation.

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