DaStGen - DaStGen

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DaStGen is a data structure generator. It has been designed and written by Wolfgang Eckhardt and Tobias Weinzierl in 2007. DaStGen reads a record specification and creates the corresponding C++ types used by Peano. Features supported by DaStGen currently are

Packs different data types, i.e. if two bools are assigned to one record, these two records are stored within one integer. DaStGen is able to back the types enum, integer (if a data range is specified) and bool.
Creates corresponding setter and getter operations.
Automatic generation of a derived MPI-Datatype
The generated code offers inlining, and aligns the records for AVX/SSE.
DaStGen supports complex data types.

Code generated by DaStGen has no copyright, i.e. you are free to choose a license model of your own.

Execute DaStGen

Download the latest DaStGen binary.
Please ensure that you have downloaded all required additional libs, too. A list of them can be found on the download page.
Rename the DaStGen jar file into DaStGen.jar
Create a datatype specification
Enter
java -jar DaStGen.jar option specification-file
on the command line to make DaStGen translate your specification.

Citing DaStGen

If you cite DaStGen, we appreciate if you use

@Misc{Software:DaStGen,
  author = {Wolfgang Eckhardt and Tobias Weinzierl},
  title  = {{DaStGen}---a {C++} {D}ata {S}tructure {G}enerator for {HPC} {S}oftware},
  url    = {http://www5.in.tum.de/dastgen},
  year   = {2012}
}

Papers about DaStGen

@inproceedings{eckhardt10blocking,
    author = {Eckhardt, Wolfgang and Weinzierl, Tobias},
    booktitle = {Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2009},
    editor = {Wyrzykowski, Roman and Dongarra, Jack and Karczewski, Konrad and Wasniewski, Jerzy},
    number = {1},
    pages = {567----575},
    publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
    series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
    title = {A Blocking Strategy on Multicore Architectures for Dynamically Adaptive PDE Solvers},
    volume = {6068},
    year = {2010},
    ISBN = {9783642144028},
    URL = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/tn54074617t28877/fulltext.pdf}
}


@inbook{bungartz08dastgen,
    address = {Heidelberg, Berlin},
    author = {Bungartz, Hans-Joachim and Mehl, Miriam and Weinzierl, Tobias and Eckhardt, Wolfgang},
    chapter = {DaStGen - A Data Structure Generator for Parallel C++ HPC Software},
    editor = {Bubak, and van Albada, and Sloot, and Dongarra,},
    month = jun,
    pages = {213--222},
    publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
    series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
    title = {ICCS 2008: Advancing Science through Computation, Part III},
    volume = {5103},
    year = {2008},
    ISSN = {0302-9743},
    URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69389-5_25}
}

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a C++ Data Structure Generator for HPC Software