Citing Kokkos

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).

bibtex
@article{KokkosEcosystem2021,
	title        = {
		The Kokkos Ecosystem: Comprehensive Performance Portability for High
		Performance Computing
	},
	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
	},
	year         = 2021,
	journal      = {Computing in Science Engineering},
	volume       = 23,
	number       = 5,
	pages        = {10--18},
	doi          = {10.1109/MCSE.2021.3098509}
}

Kokkos Core  

The most recent (and primary) citation is:

bibtex
@article{KokkosCore2022,
	title        = {Kokkos 3: Programming Model Extensions for the Exascale Era},
	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
	},
	year         = 2022,
	journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
	volume       = 33,
	number       = 4,
	pages        = {805--817},
	doi          = {10.1109/TPDS.2021.3097283}
}

A description of the fundamental concepts can be found here:

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

Kokkos Kernels  

bibtex
@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,
	url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11991},
	eprint       = {2103.11991},
	archiveprefix = {arXiv},
	primaryclass = {cs.MS}
}

Kokkos Tools  

bibtex
@inproceedings{KokkosTools2018,
	title        = {Profiling and Debugging Support for the Kokkos Programming Model},
	author       = {
		Hammond, Simon D. and Trott, Christian R. and Ibanez, Daniel and Sunderland,
		Daniel
	},
	year         = 2018,
	booktitle    = {High Performance Computing},
	publisher    = {Springer International Publishing},
	address      = {Cham},
	pages        = {743--754},
	doi          = {10.1007/978-3-030-02465-9_53},
	isbn         = {978-3-030-02465-9}
}