A Standard and Software for Numerical Metadata

  • Authors:
  • Victor Eijkhout;Erika Fuentes

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas, Austin;University of Tennessee

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a standard for generating, manipulating, and storing metadata describing numerical problems, in particular properties of matrices and linear systems. The standard comprises: –an API for metadata generating and querying software, and –an XML format for permanent storage of metadata. The API is open-ended, allowing for other parties to define additional metadata categories to be generated and stored within this framework. Furthermore, we present two software libraries, NMD and AnaMod, that implement this standard, and that contain a number of computational modules for numerical metadata. The libraries, more than simply illustrating the use of the standard, provide considerable utility to numerical researchers.