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

长期以来，科学软件库为高质量、可重用的软件组件提供了大量且不断增长的资源，在这些组件上，科学和工程中的应用程序可以快速构建——具有改进的健壮性、可移植性和可持续性。为此，来自四个合作组织的一组研究人员提议开发BALLISTIC（跨学科协作的可持续技术基本代数库）。弹道项目通过对其软件交付成果的前沿研究，将引入能够简化向下一代极端规模计算机体系结构过渡的工具。该项目的主要影响将是开发、推动和部署软件到科学界，使其在世界范围内具有竞争力，并为该领域的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，并被大型用户社区、计算中心和高性能计算（HPC）供应商采用和/或支持。学习使用数字库是许多领域和许多学术机构的计算科学家或工程师教育的基本部分。弹道导弹将对研究和教育界、政府实验室和私营企业产生相应的巨大影响，并支持国家努力建立一支能够使用最先进工具追求科学和工程发现的劳动力队伍。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)尽可能通过熟悉的Sca/LAPACK接口提供对最新算法、数字和性能的无缝访问；(2)在必要时通过新的接口扩展提供先进的算法、数字和性能能力；(3)提供一个精心设计的管道，通过该管道，这些领域研究前沿的新发现可以尽可能快地引导到依赖于高性能线性代数库的科学和工程社区的所有应用中。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.