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MDE4HPC: An Approach for Using Model-Driven Engineering in High-Performance Computing

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SDL 2011: Integrating System and Software Modeling (SDL 2011)

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With the increasing number of programming paradigms and hardware architectures, high performance computing is becoming more and more complex in exploiting efficiently and sustainably supercomputers resources. Our thesis is that Model Driven Engineering (MDE) can help us in dealing with this complexity, by abstracting some platform dependent details. In this paper we present our approach (MDE4HPC) based on Model Driven Engineering which – by describing the scientific knowledge independently of any specific platform – enables efficient code generation for multiple target architectures.

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    Marc Palyart & David Lugato

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    Marc Palyart, Ileana Ober & Jean-Michel Bruel

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Palyart, M., Lugato, D., Ober, I., Bruel, JM. (2011). MDE4HPC: An Approach for Using Model-Driven Engineering in High-Performance Computing. In: Ober, I., Ober, I. (eds) SDL 2011: Integrating System and Software Modeling. SDL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7083. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25264-8_19

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