Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry <mckins...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : loki-ecmwf Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Contact: Michael Lange (michael.la...@ecmwf.int) * URL : https://github.com/ecmwf-ifs/loki * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : Source-to-source code translator for Fortran Loki is an experimental tool to explore the possible use of source-to-source translation for ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) and associated Fortran software packages. Loki is based on compiler technology (visitor patterns and ASTs) and aims to provide an abstract, language-agnostic representation of a kernel, as well as a programmable (pythonic) interface that allows developers to experiment with different kernel implementations and optimizations. The aim is to allow changes to programming models and coding styles to be encoded and automated instead of hand-applying them, enabling advanced experimentation with large kernels as well as bulk processing of large numbers of source files to evaluate different kernel implementations and programming models. This software is now in use beyond ECMWF, and I intend to work and develop it with other Fortran environments in Debian. I intend to maintain it within Debian Science team as part of the Meteorology stack. As Loki is a pre-existing name in Debian, I intend to follow convention and rename the package loki-ecmwf.
