D12.3: Development Environment and Tools

Work Package 12 (WP12) “Novel Programming Techniques” performs research and development in four key areas for future multi-petascale and exascale systems, auto-tuned runtimes (Task 12.1), scalable numerical algorithms (Task 12.2), development environment and tools (Task 12.3) and file system optimization (Task 12.4).
Specifically, in this deliverable we are reporting the progress made on development environments and tools. This task effort has been distributed among four different projects each of which is focused on a different programming model or programming technique.

• Task-based programming model, OmpSs
• Simultaneous multithreading technique, SMT
• Programming standard for accelerators, OpenACC
• Partitioned global address space, PGAS

These projects address or suggest different tools specifically to optimize codes in each particular programming model or technique. This deliverable provides a summary of the results and findings achieved by the different projects. It is covering work from the start of WP12 up to month eighteen. Along with the deliverables the researchers also produced whitepapers for each of the projects. More detailed results and descriptions for each project can be found in these whitepapers. They would be useful for readers that are interested in more detailed information.