Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Basic ALgebra LIbraries for Sustainable Technology with Interdisciplinary Collaboration (BALLISTIC)

协作研究：框架：跨学科协作可持续技术的基本代数库（BALLISTIC）

• 批准号: 2004235
• 负责人: Michael Mahoney
• 金额: $ 71.87万
• 依托单位: International Computer Science Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2004235&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Frameworks; Basic; ALgebra

Scientific software libraries have long provided a large and growing resource for high-quality, reusable software components upon which applications from science and engineering can be rapidly constructed — with improved robustness, portability, and sustainability. For this, a team of researchers from four collaborating organizations proposed to develop BALLISTIC (Basic ALgebra Libraries for Sustainable Technology with Interdisciplinary Collaboration). The BALLISTIC project, through the leading-edge research it channels into its software deliverables, will lead to the introduction of tools that will simplify the transition to the next generation of extreme-scale computer architectures. The main impact of the project will be to develop, push, and deploy software into the scientific community to make it competitive on a world-wide scale and to contribute to standardization efforts in the area. BALLISTIC has the potential to become the community standard for dense linear algebra and be adopted and/or supported by a large community of users, computing centers, and High-Performance Computing (HPC) vendors. Learning to use numerical libraries is a basic part of the education of a computational scientist or engineer in many fields and at many academic institutions. BALLISTIC will have a correspondingly large impact on the research and education community, government laboratories, and private industry and support national efforts to build a workforce capable of employing state of the art tools in pursuit of science and engineering discoveries.The goal of BALLISTIC is to create a layered package of software components that is capable of running at every level of the platform deployment pyramid and achieves three complementary objectives: (1) deliver seamless access to the most up-to-date algorithms, numerics, and performance via familiar Sca/LAPACK interfaces, wherever possible; (2) make advanced algorithms, numerics, and performance capabilities available through new interface extensions, wherever necessary; and (3) provide a well-engineered conduit through which new discoveries at the frontiers of research in these areas can be channeled as quickly as possible to all the applications from science and engineering communities that depend on high-performance linear algebra libraries.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

科学软件库长期以来为高质量、可重用的软件组件提供了大量且不断增长的资源，可以在这些组件上快速构建科学和工程应用程序，并提高稳健性、可移植性和可持续性。为此，由四个合作的研究人员组成的团队。组织提议开发 BALLISTIC（跨学科协作可持续技术的基本代数库） BALLISTIC 项目通过将前沿研究引入其软件交付成果，将推出可简化开发过程的工具。该项目的主要影响将是开发、推动和部署软件到科学界，使其在全球范围内具有竞争力，并为标准化工作做出贡献。 BALLISTIC 有潜力成为密集线性代数的社区标准，并被大量用户、计算中心和高性能计算 (HPC) 供应商采用和/或支持。学习使用数值库是一项基础知识。计算教育的一部分BALLISTIC 将对研究和教育界、政府实验室和私营企业产生相应的巨大影响，并支持国家建设一支能够使用最先进工具的劳动力队伍。 BALLISTIC 的目标是创建一个分层的软件组件包，能够在平台部署金字塔的每个级别上运行，并实现三个互补的目标：(1) 提供对最新版本的无缝访问-日期算法，尽可能通过熟悉的 Sca/LAPACK 接口实现数值和性能；(2) 在必要时通过新的界面扩展提供先进的算法、数值和性能功能；(3) 提供精心设计的管道，通过该管道进行新发现这些领域的研究前沿可以尽快引导到依赖高性能线性代数库的科学和工程界的所有应用。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来提供支持。