Broadway: A Software Architecture for Scientific Computing

Scientific programs rely heavily on software libraries. This paper describes the limitations of this reliance and shows how it degrades software quality. We offer a solution that uses a compiler to automatically optimize library implementations and the application programs that use them. Using examples from the PLAPACK parallel linear algebra library, we present our solution, which includes a simple declarative annotation language that describes certain aspects of a library's implementation. We also show how our approach can yield simpler scientific programs that are easier to understand, modify and maintain.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: IFIP
• Authors: Samuel Z. Guyer, Calvin Lin
• Keywords: IFIP 2000, PLAPACK Parallel Linear, Programming Languages, Scientific Programs, Simpler Scientific Programs