Integrating Autotuning Into the Application Development Environment
Bill Gropp

Applications programs must often trade between portability and
performance because of the complexity of tuning codes for particular
architectures and inputs.  In addition, even when portability is not
an issue, achieving high performance, even for relatively simple
operations such as dense matrix-matrix multiply, often requires very
complex code (relative to the straightforward code that functionally
describes the operation). Autotuning tools offer the promise of a
practical mechanism for creating that complex code.  However, to be
truly successful, these tools (and the plural is essential) must be
smoothly integrated into the applications development
environment. This talk will discuss some of the needs of applications 
and illustrate some possible approaches for building an environment
will allow autotuning tools to flourish.