DSLs, DLA, DxT, and MDE in CSE

Author

Marker, Bryan ; Van De Geijn, Robert ; Batory, Don

Author_Institution

Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

18-18 May 2013

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

87

Abstract

We narrate insights from a collaboration between researchers in Software Engineering (SE) and in the domain of Dense Linear Algebra (DLA) libraries. We highlight our impressions of how software development for computational science has traditionally been different from the development of software in other domains. We observe that scientific software (at least DLA libraries) is often developed by domain experts rather than legions of programmers. For this reason, researchers in SE need to impact the productivity of experts rather than the productivity of the masses. We document this and other lessons learned.

Keywords

linear algebra; mathematics computing; software libraries; specification languages; CSE; DLA libraries; DSL; DxT; MDE; computational science; computational science and engineering; dense linear algebra libraries; design by transformation; domain-specific languages; software development; software engineering; Computer architecture; Fires; Libraries; Linear algebra; Optimization; Software; Software algorithms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (SE-CSE), 2013 5th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECSE.2013.6615103

Filename

6615103