Result: Language Interoperability Mechanisms for High-Performance Scientific Applications

Title:
Language Interoperability Mechanisms for High-Performance Scientific Applications
Authors:
A Cleary, S Kohn, S G Smith, B Smolinski, Andrew Clearyt, Scott Kohnt, Steven G Smith+, Brent Smolinskit
Contributors:
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Source:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark%3A/67531/metadc721608/m2/1/high_res_d/7805.pdf.
Publication Year:
1998
Collection:
CiteSeerX
Document Type:
Academic journal text
File Description:
application/pdf
Language:
English
Relation:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1068.9532
Availability:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1068.9532
Rights:
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it.
Accession Number:
edsbas.7D098A16
Database:
BASE

Further Information

Language interoperability is a difficult problem facing the developers and users of large numerical software packages. Language choices often hamper the reuse and sharing of numerical libraries, especially in a scientific computing environment that uses a breadth of programming languages, including C, c ++, Java, various Fortran dialects, and scripting languages such as Python. In this paper, we propose a new approach to langauge interoparability for high-performance scientific applications based on Interface Definition Language (IDL) techniques. We investigate the modifications necessary to adopt traditional IDL approaches for use by the scientific community, including IDL extensions for numerical computing and issues involved in mapping IDLs to Fortran 77 and Fortran 90.