BLIS: A Framework for Rapidly Instantiating BLAS Functionality (EUM'21)
Channel: EasyBuild
Date: 2021-01-27

by Field G. Van Zee (University of Texas at Austin, US)

BLIS is a portable software framework for instantiating high-performance BLAS-like dense linear algebra libraries. The framework was designed to isolate essential kernels of computation that, when optimized, immediately enable optimized implementations of most of its commonly used and computationally-intensive operations. In this talk, I'll take the audience on wide-ranging tour of BLIS, including its history, its design considerations, the APIs it exports, its implementations and how they promote productivity and maintainability, performance on modern hardware, its community organization, its impact on the HPC ecosystem, and our plans for the future.