Friends of BLIS,
(Cross-posted to blis-devel. Please forgive the duplicate messages.)
I'm pleased to share some exciting news: the paper that we
internally refer to as the second BLIS paper,
"The BLIS Framework: Experiments in Portability." Field G. Van
Zee, Tyler Smith, Bryan Marker, Tze Meng Low, Robert A. van de
Geijn, Francisco Igual, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Xianyi Zhang, Michael
Kistler, Vernon Austel, John A. Gunnels, Lee Killough. ACM
Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), 42(2):12:1--12:19,
2016.
The selection committee sought to recognize the paper,
“which validates BLIS, a framework relying on the notion of
microkernels that enables both productivity and high performance.”
Their statement continues, “The framework will continue having an
important influence on the design and the instantiation of dense
linear algebra libraries.”
Robert and I (and the rest of our coauthors) are humbled and honored to have been chosen for the
prize. Of course, we are also thrilled that BLIS has received this
prestigious recognition from SIAM, as it affirms that the
community understands the impact BLIS has made, and continues to
have, on our field.
If you happen to be at SIAM PP20 conference, please consider stopping by to listen in on
Robert's talk on BLIS.
Lastly, thank you all for being part of this amazing community. Without you and your support, the SIAM selection committee may not have seen sufficient impact to select the BLIS paper as the recipient of the award. Your involvement truly matters.
We look forward to taking BLIS to new and exciting places in the future, and we value your continued contributions to the project.
Best regards,
Field