Citing Kokkos

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Citing Kokkos

To help us track the impact of the Kokkos project and to ensure scientific reproducibility, please use the following references when citing Kokkos in your work.

Version-Specific Citations

For better reproducibility in research publications, we strongly recommend citing the specific version of Kokkos used in your work. Since version 5.0, every Kokkos release is archived on Zenodo with a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

  • Find your version: Please visit our Releases Page to find the specific DOI for the version you utilized.
  • Format: You can cite it as a software release (e.g., Kokkos Core v5.0.1, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18408291).

Thematic Publications

In addition to citing the specific software version, please cite the relevant papers below that describe the components of the Kokkos Ecosystem you used.

Overall Ecosystem

Use this citation when referring to the collective project or when utilizing multiple Kokkos subprojects (Core, Kernels, Tools).

@article{KokkosEcosystem2021,
  author={Trott, Christian and Berger-Vergiat, Luc and Poliakoff, David and Rajamanickam, Sivasankaran
          and Lebrun-Grandie, Damien and Madsen, Jonathan and Al Awar, Nader and Gligoric, Milos
          and Shipman, Galen and Womeldorff, Geoff},
  journal={Computing in Science Engineering},
  title={The Kokkos Ecosystem: Comprehensive Performance Portability for High Performance Computing},
  year={2021},
  volume={23},
  number={5},
  pages={10-18},
  doi={10.1109/MCSE.2021.3098509}}

Kokkos Core

The most recent (and primary) citation is:

@article{KokkosCore2022,
  author={Trott, Christian R. and Lebrun-Grandié, Damien and Arndt, Daniel and Ciesko, Jan
          and Dang, Vinh and Ellingwood, Nathan and Gayatri, Rahulkumar and Harvey, Evan
          and Hollman, Daisy S. and Ibanez, Dan and Liber, Nevin and Madsen, Jonathan
          and Miles, Jeff and Poliakoff, David and Powell, Amy and Rajamanickam, Sivasankaran
          and Simberg, Mikael and Sunderland, Dan and Turcksin, Bruno and Wilke, Jeremiah},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
  title={Kokkos 3: Programming Model Extensions for the Exascale Era},
  year={2022},
  volume={33},
  number={4},
  pages={805-817},
  doi={10.1109/TPDS.2021.3097283}}

A description of the fundamental concepts can be found here:

@article{KokkosCore2014,
  title = "Kokkos: Enabling manycore performance portability through polymorphic memory access patterns ",
  journal = "Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing ",
  volume = "74",
  number = "12",
  pages = "3202 - 3216",
  year = "2014",
  note = "Domain-Specific Languages and High-Level Frameworks for High-Performance Computing ",
  issn = "0743-7315",
  doi = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.07.003",
  url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743731514001257",
  author = "H. Carter Edwards and Christian R. Trott and Daniel Sunderland"
}

Kokkos Kernels 

@misc{KokkosKernels2021,
  title={Kokkos Kernels: Performance Portable Sparse/Dense Linear Algebra and Graph Kernels},
  author={Sivasankaran Rajamanickam and Seher Acer and Luc Berger-Vergiat and Vinh Dang
          and Nathan Ellingwood and Evan Harvey and Brian Kelley and Christian R. Trott
          and Jeremiah Wilke and Ichitaro Yamazaki},
  year={2021},
  eprint={2103.11991},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.MS},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11991},
}

Kokkos Tools 

@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-02465-9_53,
author="Hammond, Simon D.
and Trott, Christian R.
and Ibanez, Daniel
and Sunderland, Daniel",
title="Profiling and Debugging Support for the Kokkos Programming Model",
booktitle="High Performance Computing",
year="2018",
publisher="Springer International Publishing",
address="Cham",
pages="743--754",
isbn="978-3-030-02465-9"
}
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