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_Recipient of the **[2023 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software](https://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/major-prizes-lectures/detail/james-h-wilkinson-prize-for-numerical-software)**_

_Recipient of the **[2020 SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Best Paper Prize](https://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/activity-group-prizes/detail/siag-sc-best-paper-prize)**_


![The BLIS cat is sleeping.](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/field/blis_cat.png)

[![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.com/flame/blis.svg?branch=master)](https://app.travis-ci.com/github/flame/blis)
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* **[Discussion](#discussion)**
* **[Contributing](#contributing)**
* **[Citations](#citations)**
* **[Awards](#awards)**
* **[Funding](#funding)**

Introduction
------------

BLIS is a portable software framework for instantiating high-performance
BLIS is an [award-winning](#awards)
portable software framework for instantiating high-performance
BLAS-like dense linear algebra libraries. The framework was designed to isolate
essential kernels of computation that, when optimized, immediately enable
optimized implementations of most of its commonly used and computationally
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What's New
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* **BLIS selected for the 2023 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software!** We
are thrilled to announce that Field Van Zee and Devin Matthews were chosen to receive
the [2023 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software](https://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/major-prizes-lectures/detail/james-h-wilkinson-prize-for-numerical-software).
The selection committee sought to recognize the recipients "for the development of
BLIS, a portable open-source software framework that facilitates rapid instantiation
of high-performance BLAS and BLAS-like operations targeting modern CPUs." This prize
is awarded once every four years to the authors of an outstanding piece of numerical
software, or to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to an existing
piece of numerical software. It is awarded to an entry that best addresses all phases
of the preparation of high-quality numerical software, and is intended to recognize
innovative software in scientific computing and to encourage researchers in the
earlier stages of their career. The prize will be awarded at the
[2023 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering](https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/cse23) in Amsterdam.

* **Join us on Discord!** In 2021, we soft-launched our [Discord](https://discord.com/)
server by privately inviting current and former collaborators, attendees of our BLIS
Retreat, as well as other participants within the BLIS ecosystem. We've been thrilled by
the results thus far, and are happy to announce that our new community is now open to
the broader public! If you'd like to hang out with other BLIS users and developers,
ask a question, discuss future features, or just say hello, please feel free to join us!
We've put together a [step-by-step guide](docs/Discord.md) for creating an account and
joining our cozy enclave. We even have a monthly "BLIS happy hour" event where people
can casually come together for a video chat, Q&A, brainstorm session, or whatever it
happens to unfold into!
Retreat, as well as other participants within the BLIS ecosystem. We've been thrilled
by the results thus far, and are happy to announce that our new community is now open
to the broader public! If you'd like to hang out with other BLIS users and developers,
ask a question, discuss future features, or just say hello, please feel free to join
us! We've put together a [step-by-step guide](docs/Discord.md) for creating an account
and joining our cozy enclave. We even have a monthly "BLIS happy hour" event where
people can casually come together for a video chat, Q&A, brainstorm session, or
whatever it happens to unfold into!

* **Addons feature now available!** Have you ever wanted to quickly extend BLIS's
operation support or define new custom BLIS APIs for your application, but were
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the source rpms may build for others.

* **GNU Guix**. Guix has BLIS packages, provides builds only for the generic
target and some specific x86_64 micro-architectures.
target and some specific `x86_64` micro-architectures.

* **Conda**. conda channel [conda-forge](https://github.com/conda-forge/blis-feedstock)
has Linux, OSX and Windows binary packages for x86_64.
has Linux, OSX and Windows binary packages for `x86_64`.

Discussion
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}
```

Awards
------

* **[2023 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software.](https://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/major-prizes-lectures/detail/james-h-wilkinson-prize-for-numerical-software)**
This prize is awarded once every four years to the authors of an outstanding piece of
numerical software, or to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to an
existing piece of numerical software. The selection committee sought to recognize the
recipients "for the development of [BLIS](https://github.com/flame/blis), a portable
open-source software framework that facilitates rapid instantiation of
high-performance BLAS and BLAS-like operations targeting modern CPUs." The prize will
be awarded at the
[2023 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering](https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/cse23) in Amsterdam.

* **[2020 SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Best Paper Prize.](https://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/activity-group-prizes/detail/siag-sc-best-paper-prize)**
This prize is awarded once every two years to the authors of the most outstanding
paper, as determined by the selection committee, in the field of parallel scientific
and engineering computing published within the four calendar years preceding the
award year. The prize was chosen for the paper ["The BLIS Framework: Experiments in
Portability."](#citations) and awarded at the [2020 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing](https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/pp20) in Seattle where Robert van de Geijn delivered [a talk on BLIS](https://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_programsess.cfm?SESSIONCODE=68266) and accepted the prize alongside other coauthors.
See also:
* [SIAM News | January 2020 Prize Spotlight](https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/january-2020-prize-spotlight#Field&Robert)
* [Oden Institute's SHPC Group Win SIAM Best Paper Prize](https://www.oden.utexas.edu/about/news/ScienceHighPerfomanceComputingSIAMBestPaperPrize/)

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