This is a proposal for a Performance Wrappers Project. The project is sponsored by the HPC Developer Community.
Short Name Performance Wrappers Sponsorsing Communities HPC Developer Initial participants Theresa Do Dave Hagerty Paul Hinker Tim Jacobson Shandong Lao Brad Lewis Jeremy Week Description: I propose a wrappers project that would provide common interfaces that are not available for Solaris but have equivalent existing functionality that can be utilized in a simple wrapper implementation. An example is Fast Fourier Transforms. Sun Studio 12 provides FFTs in Sun Performance Library using FFTPACK interfaces. Another common FFT interface is FFTW. FFTW interfaces would make it possible for existing applications that call FFTW to compile and run with Studio 12. CBLAS is another set of wrappers that would be useful to include. In this case the standard package is a set of wrappers that call Fortran BLAS. However, string arguments are handled in a way that is not compatible with Sun Studio 12 because string lengths are not passed into Fortran subroutines. A Sun Studio compliant CBLAS would be useful. The goal is to make it very easy for HPC Developers to compile and run on Solaris without having to rewrite their code, recompile whole packages, or write wrappers of there own for Solaris.
