Abstract
Component technologies offer a promising approach for managing the increasing complexity and interdisciplinary nature of high-performance scientific applications. Language interoperability is required for components written in different languages to communicate. In this paper, we present an approach to language interoperability for high-performance parallel components. Based on Interface Definition Language (IDL) techniques, we have developed a Scientific IDL (SIDL) that focuses on the abstractions and performance requirements of the scientific domain. We are developing a SIDL compiler and the associated run-time support for reference counting, reflection, object management, and basic exception handling. The SIDL approach has been validated for a scientific linear solver library. Initial timing results indicate that the performance overhead is minimal (less than 1%), whereas the savings in development time for interoperable software libraries can be substantial.KeywordsLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryJava Programming LanguageMultiple InheritanceReference CountingMultidimensional ArrayThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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