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Playa: High-Performance Programmable Linear Algebra
Victoria E. Howle
,1 Robert C. Kirby,1 Kevin Long,1 Brian Brennan,1 and Kimberly Kennedy11Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Abstract
This paper introduces Playa, a high-level user interface layer for composing algorithms for complex multiphysics problems out of objects from other Trilinos packages. Among other features, Playa provides very high-performance overloaded operators implemented through an expression template mechanism. In this paper, we give an overview of the central Playa objects from a user's perspective, show application to a sequence of increasingly complex solver algorithms, provide timing results for Playa's overloaded operators and other functions, and briefly survey some of the implementation issues involved.
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Copyright © 2012 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
