Everything about Porting

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PortingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: OpenMP application experiences: Porting to accelerated nodesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: PenséesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Invariance of Characteristic Current Densities in Nanoscale MOSFETs and Its Impact on Algorithmic Design Methodologies and Design Porting of Si(Ge) (Bi)CMOS High-Speed Building BlocksCited 174 times
5. Go sideways: Multi Emulator Super SystemA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Video game conversionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Invariance of Characteristic Current Densities in Nanoscale MOSFETs and Its Impact on Algorithmic Design Methodologies and Design Porting of Si(Ge) (Bi)CMOS High-Speed Building Blocks

  T.O. Dickson, K.H.K. Yau, T. Chalvatzis · 2006 · IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 174 citations

• Porting a high-order finite-element earthquake modeling application to NVIDIA graphics cards using CUDA

  Dimitri Komatitsch, David Michéa, Gordon Erlebacher · 2009 · Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing · 162 citations

• GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics: State-of-art software performance and porting from Nvidia CUDA to AMD HIP

  Nikolay Kondratyuk, Vsevolod Nikolskiy, Daniil Pavlov · 2021 · The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications · 93 citations

• Porting WarpX to GPU-accelerated platforms

  A. Myers, A. Almgren, L.D. Amorim · 2021 · Parallel Computing · 59 citations

• Porting the synthetic D‐glucaric acid pathway from Escherichia coli to Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  Amita Gupta, Michael A. Hicks, Shawn P. Manchester · 2016 · Biotechnology Journal · 48 citations

• Semi‐automatic porting of a large‐scale Fortran CFD code to GPUs

  Andrew Corrigan, Fernando Camelli, Rainald Löhner · 2011 · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids · 45 citations

• Early Experience on Porting and Running a Lattice Boltzmann Code on the Xeon-phi Co-Processor

  G. Crimi, F. Mantovani, M. Pivanti · 2013 · Procedia Computer Science · 43 citations

• Swan: A tool for porting CUDA programs to OpenCL

  M.J. Harvey, G. De Fabritiis · 2011 · Computer Physics Communications · 42 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• OpenMP application experiences: Porting to accelerated nodes

  Seonmyeong Bak, Colleen Bertoni, Swen Boehm · 2022 · Parallel Computing · 33 citations

• Accelerating joint species distribution modelling with Hmsc-HPC by GPU porting

  Anis Ur Rahman, Gleb Tikhonov, Jari Oksanen · 2024 · PLOS Computational Biology · 29 citations

• Porting learning from interdependencies back home: Performance implications of multihoming for complementors in platform ecosystems

  Francisco Polidoro, Wei Yang · 2024 · Strategic Management Journal · 23 citations

• Porting Fragmentation Methods to Graphical Processing Units Using an OpenMP Application Programming Interface: Offloading the Fock Build for Low Angular Momentum Functions

  Buu Q. Pham, Melisa Alkan, Mark S. Gordon · 2023 · Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation · 19 citations

• Mystique: Automated Vulnerability Patch Porting with Semantic and Syntactic-Enhanced LLM

  Susheng Wu, Ruisi Wang, Yiheng Cao · 2025 · Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering · 16 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• PenséesBlaise Pascal, Philippe Sellier · 1670
• Les provincialesBlaise Pascal · 1656
• Port-RoyalCharles Augustin Sainte-Beuve · 1867
• The provincial letters of Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal · 1851
• Rehearsal for ReconstructionWillie Lee Nichols Rose, W. L. Rose · 1899
• A House for Mr. BiswasV. S. Naipaul · 1961
• Fences, gates, and bridgesGeorge A. Martin · 1887
• A Place on EarthWendell Berry · 1967

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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