@Article{VanZee:2015:BFR,
  author =       "Van Zee, Field G. and Robert A. van de Geijn",
  title =        "{BLIS}: A Framework for Rapidly Instantiating {BLAS} 
                  Functionality",
  journal =      "{ACM} Transactions on Mathematical Software",
  volume =       "41",
  number =       "3",
  accepted =     "12 December 2013",
  upcoming =     "true", 
  abstract =     "
                  The BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software (BLIS)
                  framework is a new infrastructure for rapidly
                  instantiating Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS)
                  functionality. Its fundamental innovation is that virtually
                  all computation within level-2 (matrix-vector) and
                  level-3 (matrix-matrix) BLAS operations can be expressed
                  and optimized in terms of very simple kernels. While
                  others have had similar insights, BLIS reduces the
                  necessary kernels to what we believe is the simplest
                  set that still supports the high performance that the
                  computational science community demands. Higher-level
                  framework code is generalized and implemented in ISO
                  C99 so that it can be reused and/or re-parameterized for
                  different operations (and different architectures) with
                  little to no modification. Inserting high-performance
                  kernels into the framework facilitates the immediate
                  optimization of any BLAS-like operations which are cast
                  in terms of these kernels, and thus the framework acts
                  as a productivity multiplier. Users of BLAS-dependent
                  applications are given a choice of using the traditional
                  Fortran-77 BLAS interface, a generalized C interface,
                  or any other higher level interface that builds upon this
                  latter API. Preliminary performance of level-2 and level-3
                  operations is observed to be competitive with two mature
                  open source libraries (OpenBLAS and ATLAS) as well as an
                  established commercial product (Intel MKL).",
}