BLIS Retreat 2019 
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This (seventh) BLIS Retreat is an invitation-only workshop that brings together 
contributors to BLIS as well as those with a keen interest in the project. 
 The BLIS Retreats in 
   
  2013, 
  
  2014 , 
   
  2015 , 
   
    2016 ,
   
  2017 ,
  and
   
  2018 
  were well-attended by participants from
  academia, industry, and the government labs.
 
 
 
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| Organizers: | Robert van de Geijn and Maggie Myers (UT-Austin) |  
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  | Dates: | September 19-20, 2019 (Thursday-Friday) (Full day Thursday, half day Friday)
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| Location: | Gates Dell Complex (GDC)  Room  6.302, UT-Austin (On Friday we move to the Peter O'Donnell Building (POB) Room 2.402)
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| Workshop fee: | No fee. |  | 
 Overview 
The BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software (BLIS) is 
a framework for rapid instantiation of high-performance
libraries with Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) functionality.
This invitation-only annual workshop brings together various parties from academia and industry
who have an interest in BLIS in particular, and dense linear algebra libraries in general.
The framework is hosted on 
GitHub.
  
    |  What's New 
   
LAFF-On Programming for High Performance.
    
  Robert van de Geijn, Maggie Myers, and Devangi Parikh  
  A Massive Open Online Course offered on edX that teaches some of the principles of high-perforamnce computing
  by focusing on optimizing our favorite operation: matrix-matrix multiplication.
   
  
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